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Wikipedia: France Antarctique (formerly also spelled France antartique) was a French colony south of the Equator, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which existed between 1555 and 1567, and had control over the coast from Rio de Janeiro to Cabo Frio. Founded as a haven for the Huguenots, the colony was ultimately destroyed by the Portuguese in 1567. Brazil had been discovered in April 1500 by a fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral on behalf of the Portuguese crown, which arrived in present-day Porto Seguro, Bahia, but except for Salvador (the first Brazilian capital city) the rest of the new territory still remained largely unexplored half a century later.
![[Map of France Antarctique, in the Bay of Rio de Janeiro, 1555.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Rio_1555_Fran_C3_A7a_Ant_C3_A1rtica_s.jpg "Map of France Antarctique, in the Bay of Rio de Janeiro, 1555.")
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