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France. 6C BC Celt, Greek colonies. 51BC Rome. 3-5C Franks, Visigoths inv. 481 Merovingian emp. 751 Carolingian. 843 Split = W Frankish Kingdom. 987 Capetian. 1016 + Burgundy. 1378 Valois dyn. 1589 Bourbon dyn. 1792 Republic. 1799 Consulate. 1804 Empire. 1814 Monarchy rest. 1848 2nd Republic. 1852 2nd Empire. 1870 3rd Republic. 1940 German occupation. 1946 4th Republic. 1958 5th Republic.
France, Anatole. 1844-1924. French short story writer. The Red Lily 1894.
Francis I. 1494-1547. French king 1515-. Vs Charles V. Prosecuted Protestants. Began exploration, colonization. Field of Cloth of Gold.
Franck, César. 1822-90. Belgian/French organist, Romantic composer.
Free French. French vs Germany after fall of France 1940. Opp. by Vichy government. DeGaulle.
French, Daniel. 1850-1931. US sculptor. Lincoln’s Memorial 1922. Minuteman 1875.
French Academy. Académie Française.
French-Austrian War. 1494-1529.
French Community. 1958-. France + Overseas departments + former territories.
French East India Company. 1664-1770. To protect French trade interests in India.
French Equatorial Africa. 1839 French settle. 1910 French Equatorial Africa. 1960 Central African Republic + Independent Chad, Gabon, Congo.
French Fury. 1583. Antwerp citizens kill 2,000 occupying French soldiers.
French Guiana. 1604 French settle. 1809 France/Portugal. 1816 French. 1852-1946 Penal colonies. Devil’s Is.
French-Indian Wars. 1754-63. North American part of Seven Years War. France loses all possessions in Canada to Britain.
French Polynesia. c3C Polynesians settle. 1521 Magellan discovers. 1595 Spanish discover Marquesas. 1767 British discover Tahiti. 1880/81 French colony. 1946 French Overseas Territory.
French Republican Calendar. 1793-1805. 12 30 day months of 3 “decades”. 5-6 holidays at end of year.
French Revolution. 1830. After Charles X’s repressive Four Ordinances of St Cloud.
French Union. 1946-58. France + Protectorates + overseas Territories. French Community.
French Wars. 1701-1815. Second Hundred Years War.
French West Africa. 1895-1958. Dahomey, Guinea, Mali, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Burkino Faso.
Fréron, Louis. 1754-1802. French Revolutionary. Conspired vs Robespierre.
Fresnel, Augustin. 1788-1827. French physicist, wave theory of light 1815. Fresnel lens 1820.