Re:Worldle
by idontwantthis on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @10:59PM
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I think French Guiana is not a territory, it's a full department in France. Equal to Hawaii in the US as far as I know, but I'm not 100% sure.
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That’s my understanding too. Something about Napoleon wanting to be egalitarian. Has the interesting side-effect that France is both the western-most and eastern-most country in the EU.
About egalitarian Napoleon:
> In 1801, Louverture issued a constitution for Saint-Domingue [now Haiti] that decreed he would be governor-for-life and called for black autonomy and a sovereign black state. In response, Napoleon Bonaparte dispatched a large expeditionary force of French soldiers and warships to the island, led by Bonaparte's brother-in-law Charles Leclerc, to restore French rule. They were under secret instructions to restore slavery, at least in the formerly Spanish-held part of the island.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution#Napoleon_in...
As for French Guiana, it was actually an extreme penal colony at that time (also, it was briefly held by Portugal). It became a department in 1946.