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  1. Former association consisting of France and
  2. those overseas territories joined with it by
  3. the constitution of the Fifth Republic,
  4. following the 1958 referendum. Many of the
  5. constituent states withdrew during the 1960s,
  6. and it no longer formally exists, but in
  7. practice all former French colonies have
  8. close economic and cultural as well as
  9. linguistic links with France.
  10.