French Community

American  

noun

1. a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.

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French Community British  

noun

1. an international association consisting of France and a number of former French colonies: founded in 1958 as a successor to the French Union

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Example Sentences

At the opposite extreme is Guinea's Sekou Toure, who alone voted no to De Gaulle's French constitution setting up a new French Community.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then Quebec and France must organize for the "solidarity of the French Community on both sides of the Atlantic."

From Time Magazine Archive

Bowing to the nationalist drive in black Africa, France's De Gaulle recently agreed to what 20 months ago he refused to contemplate: full independence for African nations within the French Community.

From Time Magazine Archive

Less than three months after voting for autonomy within the French Community, the new Congo Republic was already learning the perils of being on its own.

From Time Magazine Archive

Remember him, the fellow from Guadeloupe in the French West Indies, used to be an operative of the African Affairs sector of the French Community?

From Border, Breed Nor Birth by Reynolds, Mack