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France 1895 factbook (An Imperial World)

The blessed Chris
17-06-2006, 12:18
The Third Republic:

Capital: Paris

Population: 38, 400,000

Government: President; Jean Casimir-Perier
Prime Minister; Charles Dupuy

Imperial possessions: Algeria, Fench Equatorial Africa, French Somaliland, French west Africa, Madagascar, French Indochina and Tunisia. (More to be added as and when I find them)

Military forces: Standing army; 400,000, with considerably more reservists.

Navy; 23 battleships, 5 armoured cruisers, 18 protected cruisers, 34 light cruisers, 3 submarines, 39 torpedo boats, 16 torpedo cruisers and 21 coastal defence vessels.

Diplomatic status: The precursor to the triple entente, an as yet secret alliance with tsarist Russia has been formed in 1904.