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Parent topics[edit]

• France [r]: Western European republic (population c. 64.1 million; capital Paris) extending across Europe from the English Channel in the north-west to the Mediterranean in the south-east; bounded by Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra and Spain; founding member of the European Union. Colonial power in Southeast Asia until 1954. ^[e]

Subtopics[edit]

Prehistory[edit]

Gaul[edit]

The Roman Empire[edit]

The Frankish Kingdoms[edit]

• Charlemagne [r]: (742-814) King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor, rising to rule over most of Europe during his lifetime. ^[e]

Middle Ages[edit]

• Capetians [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hundred Years War [r]: Lengthy, intermittent warfare between English and French forces over feudal territorial rights and succession to the French crown. ^[e]
• Joan of Arc [r]: A French peasant girl (ca. 1412 – 1431) who led her nation's armies during the Hundred Years' War and became a national heroine and saint. ^[e]

Early Modern Era[edit]

• Enlightenment [r]: In religion, the point at which an aspirant breaks through the barrier of temporal existence and has a direct experience of God. In history, the enlightenment was a philosophical movement of the 18th century that advocated the use of reason as the basis for belief. ^[e]
• Encyclopedié [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Denis Diderot [r]: Enlightenment philosophe and Editor in Chief of the Encyclopédie. ^[e]
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau [r]: (1712–1778) French author and philosopher. ^[e]

The French Revolution: 1789-1799[edit]

• French Revolution [r]: The revolutionary episode in France that deposed the king and the aristocracy, created a republic, and included a period of terror, in which thousands were killed or driven into exile. ^[e]

Napoleon: 1799-1815[edit]

• Napoleon [r]: Noted military commander, world historic figure and dictator of France from 1799 to 1814 ^[e]

Restoration to Third Republic (1789-1870)[edit]

Third Republic (1870-1939)[edit]

• Emile Zola [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Victor Hugo [r]: Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885), poet, novelist and playwright, was the dominant French writer of the 19th century, and also a considerable political figure. ^[e]
• Claude Manet [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Georges Clemanceau [r]: Add brief definition or description
• World War I [r]: (1914-1918) global war centered in Europe killing 7 million people, ending with an influenza pandemic that killed at least 50 million (1918-1920) and possibly as many as 100 million people. ^[e]

World War Two[edit]

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Contemporary: 1945-2008[edit]

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Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)[edit]

• Indochina and the Second World War [r]: Between 1936 and 1947, external events, related to the Second World War, which affected French Indochina ^[e]
• Charles de Gaulle [r]: French military and political leader who died in 1970. ^[e]