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Hi Lancaster
You’re unbeatable to dig out vintage pictures.

I see You have hit the gold mine, Delcampe postcards website, that is the ebay for postcards, stamps, coins.
Funny thing are mentions added to the description of postcards such as “seins nus” which means bare breast.:)

I have also roamed this website. I am more at ease among the French nouns.

I also recommend You

idpao

=Indochine&display_mode=list]culture.fr
for Indo China……………..not very practical (Spanish used on a french culture ministry website?

France Archives

for navigating among names that most frenchmen have forgotten.

Asia

Indochine : Laos+ Cambodia+ Vietnam. Burma and Malaysia were British colonies. Thailand remained independent.

Cochinchine : South Vietnam

Tonkin : North Vietnam

Annam : center of the Vietnam and mountains of Laos
Siam : Thailand

Africa

After WWI France got Cameroon and Togo, GB got Tanzania , all German colonies.

Afrique subsaharienne : African countries South of Sahara desert. South of Algeria, Marocco Tunisia, and English Lybia and Italian Egypt.

AOF : Afrique Orientale Française : East French Africa =
Mauritania, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ivory coast, Benin, Togo, Mali, Niger, enclaves in Nigeria and Guinea-Conakry (must not be confused with Equatorial Guinea (Spain) and Bissao Guinea (Portugal).

AEF : Afrique Equatoriale Française, French Equatorial Africa : French Congo, CAR, Tchad……and Cameroon.

Soudan français : French Suddan, Mali

Oubangui-Chari : CAR
Cote d’or : Ghana

For the rest, names are similar with English’s.

Animals

Same names : Lion leopard crocodile rhinoceros elephant giraffe eland bongo
Hippopotame, Buffle, Gaur (for Sladang or Seladang), babouin, antelope, gorille, chimpanze, caiman : you can guess
Bushbuck = guib harnache
Mandril = baboon
Cob Defassa : waterbuck
Bubale = Hartebeest
Roan = hippotrague,

A link to an English-French glossary English French mini Glossary

A SERIOUS PITFALL when roaming the internet with French words:

Chasse : means hunt, but also any quest, and more often than wished, FIGHTER AIRCRAFT.

Chasseur
1) Hunter
2) Fighter airplane
3) Special force : mobile autonomous shock troops units for scouting, infiltration, skirmish and violent assault.

Good luck my friend.

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