French North Africa

British  

noun

1. the former French possessions of Algeria, French Morocco, and Tunisia

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Example Sentences

After France fell to the Nazis in the 1940, my late maternal grandfather, Paul Basset, abandoned his law studies to join his older brothers Gabriel and Louis in French North Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal

American troops were fighting in Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa.

From Los Angeles Times

Spanish was the common language within the company and all had fought during the liberation of French north Africa.

From The Guardian

The world woke up to the Fascists’ support a couple of weeks later, after two Italian planes crash-landed in French North Africa.

From The New Yorker

All the time, I had been dreaming of visiting Algeria, of seeing Algiers, the capital of French north Africa.

From The Guardian