French LOCATION@1 -LRB- -RRB- was a colony in French LOCATION@2 that had two separate periods of existence , first from NUMBER@1 to NUMBER@2 , then from NUMBER@3 to NUMBER@4 , when the territory became the independent nation of LOCATION@3 .

The first time was from NUMBER@1 to NUMBER@2 , and the second was from NUMBER@3 to NUMBER@4 .
