I'm not fit enough when it comes to paraphrasing-
But, if no one else helps you, I found this AI website where it'll paraphrase it for you. All you have to do it copy and paste the text. I'm sorry I wasn't able to help too much, but I hope this may help!
https://quillbot.com/
Answer: Whats the question?
Explanation:
France controlled Madagascar and the Comoro Islands
This is a fragmented sentence, a complete sentence would not contain commas, and would be straight forward words. Love the Potter reference!!
