1.The Yemenia plane was on the last leg of a journey from France to the former French colony off Africa's southeastern coast.
也门航空的飞机出事时正处于从法国到沿非洲东南海岸原法国殖民地的最后一段行程。
2.Founded in 1718, it became the capital of a French colony in 1722 and passed to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
1718年建立，1722年成为法国殖民地的首都并于1803年作为路易斯安那交易的一部分移交美国管理。
3.Haiti is a former French colony. French is the main language used in schools there.
海地是法国前殖民地，法语是学校里使用的主要语言。
4.One symbolic example is that in 1996 Algeria, once a French colony, began to replace French with English as the first foreign languages.
一个具有象征意义的例子是，1996年，曾为法国殖民地的阿尔及利亚开始用英语取代法语作为外语教学中的第一外语。
5.As the unoriginal name suggest this former French colony is right in the middle of Africa.
这个非独立命名的国名告诉我们这是一个位于中非的原法国殖民地。
6.The island used to be a French colony, 14. 1. 1975 independence.
该岛曾经是法国的殖民地，1975年独立。
7.The former French colony in the Caribbean has a history of political violence and natural disasters.
这一加勒比海的前法国殖民地历史上多有政治暴力和自然灾害。
8.Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island, is a former French colony.
马达加斯加是世界第四大岛国，曾经是法国殖民地。
9.October 1887, the federal establishment of French Indochina, Cambodia became a French colony.
1887年10月，法属印度支那联邦成立，柬埔寨成了法国殖民地。
10.Few philatelists had paid much attention to stamps from the former French colony.
在此之前，很少有集邮爱好者关注这个前法国殖民地发行的邮票。