History of France
The overthrow of the French Aristocracy that changed the government of France. The first rumblings began in 1740 and was fueled by the success of the American Revolution. It finally ended with the establishment of the French Constitution in December of 1799.
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The Coalition had given France back to a Bourbon King which was not what the people of France wanted or deserved.
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Very, very little since: 1. She had not yet been born and second, 2. Louis XIV was not executed but died of gangrene at...
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at the Battle of Waterloo
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he was the first christian king and brough the christian religion to the kingdom my teacher said.
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It didn't. It opened vast divisions. What united them was the threat of invasion from outside. But the political battle swayed...
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The French RevolutionThe French Revolution (1789-99) violently transformed France from a monarchical state with a rigid social...
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Betray. He was like a modern Julius Caesar. The French Revolution shortly followed the American one. It didn't really accomplish...
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Are you kidding? I hope you are. France is a democracy, has been since 1789, on and off! Answer France is a Republic!...
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Because it is a Beuatiful place, and it is old???? >> Because that is a forest in Lebanon which has world's oldest Cedar...
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Eight countries share a border with mainland France: (clockwise from the north) Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy,...
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King Louis XVI started the French Revolution. Then Maximillion Robespierre led the Reign of Terror by bringing in the...
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Edmund Locard died of lung cancer in 1966 when he was 89. He had been a heavy chain smoker and, like the popular jazz singer Nat...
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By Philip Agustus II , ddunno what year though :)
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What games did the doomed nobles of the French Revolution play? Whist, a card game similar to bridge, was popular. So was faro,...
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yes he was brave he was a king who forte in a war he fell in love with a girl called eloise
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No, he was born in Corsica, an island off of Italy. It became a part of France a year before his birth. He was actually born...
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They sailed on a ship! duhh
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Louis XVI married Marie Antoinette (Austrian name was Maria Antonia) on May 16, 1770. He was 15 years old, his bride was 14.
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When Napoleon was beaten for the last time, he tried to plead with the U.S. president to be sent ot Texas to live. It is believed...
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The French economy after World War One was destroyed. The loss of man power for production, as well as the destruction of prime...
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The Little Corporal: this was at the beginning of his career, as a recognition from his own soldiers (which he would himself...
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Basically, the final downfall of the Ancien Régime and the Bourbon monarchy. Charles X was replaced with a constitutional King,...
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Feb 24 1785, of stomach cancer which he had had for about 3 years.
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The Protestants in France also known as the Huguenots or Calvinists.
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Territorial expansion, Peter I turned small Russia into a Russian Empire. Peter I also reorganized the Russian military along...
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the Notre-Dame cathedral is France's (and probably Europe's) most visited monument. The Eiffel tower is very famous as a Parisian...
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He had exceptional military and political leadership skills.
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For being associated with Robespierre.
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Emile Loubet.
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That was the desire of President George Washington.
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a entressting background
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Meaning of Colors on French Flag Actually, it's blue, white and red - reading from the flagpole outwards.In the early days of...
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French legislators who sat on the right side of the meeting hall who opposed changes in government are called conservatives
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The period during the French Revolution in which Robespierre's subjects sent over 17,000 people to the guillotine to be...
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Robespierre lost his popularity and gained power, consequently to that he was executed on the guillotine like many of his victims.
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The Fronde or sling war was a period of civil disturbance or civil war in France between 1648 and 1653.
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Jean-Baptiste de Lully.
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the people are really not having humanity and would kill the people as they wish even if they do a small mistake like scolding a...
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The country was in turmoil. They overthrew their King and organized a government run by a Council. Napoleon was recognized for...
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The French nobleman Marquis de Lafayette is best known in America for joining George Washington's Revolutionary Army and helping...
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Because he was the last King of France and the most philanthropy of all of his predecessors. He loved "his good people" too...
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The French had arrived to Cambodia in the Year of 1863 =)
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Just about all of them. Louis XVI appears to have been the exception, and look what happened to him. He was accused of...
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larousse
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juices from plants and fruits and vegetables and stuff like that. and blood from animals.
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because of their triple entraunt
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Principally Oliver Cromwell. Also Henry Ireton, Fernando Fairfax & Thomas Fairfax
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Under the Treaty of Versailles, which was concurrent with the Treaty of Paris (1783), Spain resumed control of East and West...
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The town Harbour Grace founded by Francis I of France in 1517. On this day, October 31, 1517, in the little town of Wittenberg,...
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Napoleon became a great Emperor of the French at the beginning of the 19th century. In both military & civil power he...
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Maximillien Robespierre, nicknamed "the Incorruptible," was the leader of the Jacobins who took over the leadership of France...
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La Pucelle d'Orléans - the Maid of Orleans (where she won her first victory)
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There was a lot of fear going on about witchcraft - in 1571 it was said that there were 100,000 witches in France it was a...
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King Louis XVI died at the age of 38.
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The French philosophers of the Enlightenment Era didn't play an active role in the events of the revolution, but their ideas...
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The Napoleonic Code.
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Charles de Gaulle died in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises in 1970. He was 79 or 80 years old when he died.
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ce service est très mauvais
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Joan Lunden is 60 years old (birthdate: September 19, 1950).
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Empress Maria Theresa had 16 children of who Marie Antoinette was the 15th. Maria Theresa was not a tender loving mother, but a...
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In France, but like all good military men, he went where his country needed him.
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Her first offensive battle was the Battle of Jargeau which took place on June 11-12 1429
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She was one of the most powerful women of feudal Europe .At 15 she married Louis VII, King of France and her vast possessions...
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France had it revolution in 1789, so in 1790 they were still building a new government.
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Earl of Kent.
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The voters elected Louis Napoleon because of his beliefs that government should represent the people and help them economically....
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He died at 76 which was a very long time.He was the longest serving European Monarch.He built the Palace of Versailles, a French...
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At the Battle of the Nile, which took place in Aboukir Bay, near Alexandria.
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Not in the 20th century. Before that they were always fighting about something or other.
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Grendel is a fictional character, a sort of humanoid Sea Monster in Beowulf- by the way the Hero"s name is pronounced Bay-Wolf,...
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Yes, she did. She had two children from the previous marriage with General Beauharnais: a son, Eugène de Beauharnais (1781-1824...
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The French Tricolore of Blue White and Red had as its origin the blue and red cockade of Paris worn on a field of white...
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10.45am 1132 b.c.by speedboat wearing mankini'sand hats. big ones
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All the major nations surrounding France were monarchies. A democracy for a neighbor is not good for such monarchies. Successful...
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Ever since 1871 France had been bitterly hostile to Germany because of the harsh treatment at the end of the Franco-Prussian War...
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yes he did alot for France and their government he was said to be the best president of all time
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A revolt is any conflict in which a group fights against an authority. If its participants fail in defeating the authority, the...
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France has been inhabited by human beings for literally tens of thousands of years - well before the start of recorded history. ...
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Economic factors included widespread famine and malnutrition, which increased the likelihood of disease and death, and...
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He was considered a threat to the peace and tranquility of Europe.
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1. Eiffel Tower 2. Aerospace Industry. 3. Wine 4. Food 5. Fashion. Some alternative might include The Louvre Museum, the Arch de...
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In France (and many other European countries) the estates were as follows: 1st estate: Grandees of the (Catholic) Church - that...
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The meaning of death is death, i.e. nothingness.
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one died and one mystically disappeared. luv mira
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Yes and no. Monaco is an independent state, but it is surrounded on 3 sides by France. (the fourth side is the Mediterranean sea).
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Asia is a continent, not a nation. Ergo, it has no flag.
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Canada was first colonized by French fur traders and followed by the French Hugenots who were persecuted in France and Catholic...
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Eiffal Tower, Noterdan Cathedral, Wide range of multi colerd tulips.
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She was Archduchess of Austria only titularly. All of her siblings were Archukes/Archduchess of Austria, as it was common to give...
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