1.   Algeria was formerly a French colony.

2.   Louverture headed the revolt of the slaves in the French colony of San Domingo.

3.   The pieds noirs are the former French residents of the one-time French colonies of North Africa, in particular Algeria.

4.   Although many of the most indebted developing countries are former French colonies, France appears ambiguous about debt relief.

5.   Although Zaire, now called the Congo Republic, was never a French colony, it had become a center of French commercial and cultural interest.

6.   And he knew that the country, a former French colony where fashion consciousness runs high, had plenty of skilled tailors who would not demand American wages.

7.   A generation ago, the prospect of oil in a desperately poor former French colony like Chad would have been regarded as an indisputable stroke of good luck.

8.   Felix is a good-hearted merchant who failed in France and now is struggling to succeed with a general store in the French colony.

9.   For France, Zaire, which shares borders with nine other countries, was long an invaluable staging ground for military operations to prop up former French colonies.

10.   For Ghana, surrounded as it is by former French colonies, this kind of effort at containment is particularly costly.