French North Africa
Britishnoun
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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 ● Dec. 12, 2025
American troops were fighting in Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2020
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 ● Apr. 18, 2016
Main aim of U.S. policy: to keep the German-Italian Axis out of strategic French North Africa.
From Time Magazine Archive
Let us here content ourselves with considering the chief centres of this unrest, remembering always that it exists throughout the Moslem world from French North Africa to Central Asia and the Dutch Indies.
From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop
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