Foreign alliances of France

In particular, since 1870 the desire to counter German power has been a major motivating force leading France to create Eastern alliances.

In the American continent, France was the first to identify that cooperation with local tribes would be strategically significant, before England also started to adopt this strategy.

[4] The alliance involved French settlers on the one side, and the indigenous peoples such as the Abenaki, Ottawa, Menominee, Winnebago, Mississauga, Illinois, Sioux, Huron, Petun, and Potawatomi on the other.

[5] In India, the French General Dupleix was allied to Murzapha Jung in the Deccan, and Chanda Sahib in the Carnatic Wars, in the conflict against Robert Clive.

[14] Following the visit of the Persian Envoy Mirza Mohammad-Reza Qazvini to Napoleon, the Treaty of Finkenstein formalized the alliance on 4 May 1807, in which France supported Persia's claim to Georgia, promising to act so that Russia would surrender the territory.

Frontenac with the Indians.
Dupleix meeting the Soudhabar of the Deccan , Murzapha Jung .
Suffren meeting with Hyder Ali in 1782, J.B. Morret engraving, 1789.
The Persian Envoy Mirza Mohammad-Reza Qazvini meeting with Napoleon I at the Finkenstein castle , 27 Avril 1807, to sign the Treaty of Finkenstein . François Mulard .