There wasn't such thing as getting "more" control over the french colonies. The basic idea was that these new territory would be France from now on.
For instance, french Algeria was considered part of France as any other département of France.
That is why the breaking up with french colonies was so violent.
The UK fought for its colonies too, but not so long.
I have heard that England was the first colonizer of USA. France is more linked to Canada along with Britains if I am not wrong.
The Governor of New South Wales in 1788 was Captain Arthur Phillip. He did not try to control the spread of the colony, but explored in order to find more land for a growing colony that needed to expand.
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The area of dispute between France and Germany which France lost in the Franco-Prussian War and wanted to get back is called Alsace-Lorraine, regained by France in WWI. It is the birthplace of Joan of Arc. They also wanted to control more overseas colonies, and the parts of France that Germany occupied in the early weeks of the "Battle of France."
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It was greatly challenged by the entry of France into the War. France opened fronts in other parts of the world, drawing troops away from the conflict in the American colony. They adapted more of a wait and see tactic.
Jefferson feared that France would assert more control over the territory
Very. Most of Latin America became a colony of Spain for more than 300 years.
Each colony granted a different level of religious freedom
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France did not decide to speak French. Countries do not decide what language to speak; languages develop. The people of ancient Gaul spoke various languages, mostly celtic; then they became part of the Roman Empire and learned Latin; then they were invaded by the Francks, who spoke their own Germanic dialect. Finally, the mixture of Latin and Frankish produced French (with some influence from the more Italianate dialect of the south).
There were a great many countries that never were under British control. There were even more that were not a British colony before they were declared independent. On the great continent of Africa there is only one. That would be Ethiopia.