French history
Revolution to republic
The history of France, spanning from ancient Gaul through the Revolution, Napoleon, two World Wars, and into the modern republic.
As a field of study, French history encompasses political, cultural, and intellectual developments that shaped Western civilization: She's writing her dissertation on French history.
The phrase often evokes revolutionary politics, monarchy, and colonial expansion.
- Bastille DayFrench national holiday
- ConstitutionGoverning principles document
- Estates-GeneralFrench representative body, three classes
- World War IFirst global military conflict
- Treaty of Versailles1919 settlement ending WWI
Dreyfus Affair · Enlightenment · Hundred Years' War · Haitian Revolution · Encyclopédie · Charlemagne · Franco-Prussian War · Napoleonic Code · Mercantilism · Clovis · Renaissance · Normandy landings · Vichy France · Maginot Line · guillotine · Marie Antoinette · Normandy · Napoleonic Wars
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
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- French Culturebaguette, baguettes, beret, berets, brie
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