Fénelon, François. 1651-1715. French theologian. Quietism 1696. Telemachus 1698.

Fermat, Pierre de. 1601-65. French mathematician/jurist. Modern Number Theory. Last Theorem 1631: There does not exist xⁿ+yⁿ=zⁿ for n>2; x,y,z ε N. Proved by Wiles 1995.

Ferry, Jules. 1832-93. French premier 1880~5. Expanded empire. Compulsory secular education 1882. Dissolved Jesuits.

Feuillants Club. 1791. French moderate monarchists.

Féval, Paul. 1817-87. French writer: Bossu.

Fiorentino, Rosso. 1495-1540. Italian/French Fontainebleau painter.

First Coalition. 1792. European countries opposed to French Revolution.

Five Hundred, Council of. 1795. Lower House of French Parliament.

Fizeau, Armand. 1819-96. French physicist. Measured speed of light, 1849.

Flammarian, Camille. 1842-1925. French astronomer: L’astronomie Populaire.

Flaubert, Gustave. 1821-1880. French Realist novelist. Madame Bovary 1851. Novembre 1842. Acquitted of corrupting public morals, 1857.

Fleurus, Battle. 1794. Key French victory over First Coalition.

Florian, Jean-Pierre de. 1755-94. French fable writer.

Foch, Ferdinand. 1851-1929. French Supreme Allied Leader on W Front, 1918. Marne. WWI.

Fontaine, Pierre. 1762-1853. French Empire architect. Louvre Cour Carrée.

Fontenelle, Bernard de. 1657-1757. French pre-enlightenment writer, scientist. Entretiens 1685.

Fontenoy, Battle. 1745. French victory in War of Austrian Succession.

Foreign Legion. 1831-. French army unit of foreign volunteers, French officers founded in Algeria.

Formigny, Battle. 1450. French artillery defeat English longbow.

Fouché, Joseph. 1758-1820. French Revolutionary. Minister of Police 1779~1815. Secret police. Intrigued vs Robespierre 1794, Napoleon 1799,1807; Louis XVIII 1814.

Foujita, Tsuguhara. 1886-1968. Japanese/French painter.

Fouquet, Jean. 1420-70. French miniaturist. Book of Hours 1450. Charles VII 1445.

Fourier, Charles. 1772-1837. French socialist philosopher. His utopia was attempted in US, Brook Farm, a voluntary cooperative.

Fourier, Jean. 1768-1830. French mathematician/ physicist. Flow of heat 1822. Analysis of cyclical phenomena.

Fragonard, Jean. 1732-1806. French Rococo painter of hedonistic Provençale scenes. Swing 1766.

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