So does the UK, the Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, etc

This was pretty informative.

Outside the scope of this video there’s also fourteen countries in central and west Africa who come under CFA and use the Franc as their currency. They are denied monetary sovereignty because of this. It also features one of the laziest rebrandings of colonialism:

Between 1945 and 1958, CFA stood for Colonies françaises d’Afrique (“French colonies of Africa”); then for Communauté française d’Afrique (“French Community of Africa”) between 1958 (establishment of the French Fifth Republic) and the independence of these African countries at the beginning of the 1960s.