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France and the world' has been evoked in course titles, job descriptions, conference themes, even a recent French bestseller. This volume offers a first critical engagement with this emergent but as-yet little theorized field. A state-of the-field introduction and seven conceptually sophisticated and readable case studies explore a wide range of extraterritorial entanglements, both formal and informal, that have defined France and its place in the world across the modern era. Together, these contributions and an afterword by Lynn Hunt propose a more elastic framework of analysis that recognizes and accounts for reciprocal political, commercial, religious, and cultural relationships playing out at a variety of scales, both in the metropole and across the globe.