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The war confirms France as the dominant continental power and Bourbon strength over the Habsburgs. 1668: 2 May: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle: end of the War of Devolution. France obtains Lille and other territories of Flanders from Spain. 1678: Treaties of Nijmegen: A series of treaties ending the Franco-Dutch War.
To a large extent, modern France lies within clear limits of physical geography.Roughly half of its margin lies on sea coasts: one continuous coastline along "La Manche" ("the sleeve" or English Channel) and the Atlantic Ocean forming the country's north-western and western edge, and a shorter, separate coastline along the Mediterranean Sea forming its south-eastern edge.
The first written records for the history of France appeared in the Iron Age. What is now France made up the bulk of the region known to the Romans as Gaul . Greek writers noted the presence of three main ethno-linguistic groups in the area: the Gauls , Aquitani and Belgae .
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... Featured pictures of France (8 C, 213 F) M. Maps of France (2 C, ... Media in category "Images of France"
Paris, France Gelatin silver print The photograph is an extreme close-up of a woman's upturned face with glass droplets placed on her cheeks to imitate tears. [s 1] [s 4] Sleeping Woman: 1930 Man Ray Paris, France [s 2] See article Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare: 1932 Henri Cartier-Bresson: Paris, France 35 mm [s 1] [s 2] [s 3]
The Kingdom of France in the Middle Ages (roughly, from the 10th century to the middle of the 15th century) was marked by the fragmentation of the Carolingian Empire and West Francia (843–987); the expansion of royal control by the House of Capet (987–1328), including their struggles with the virtually independent principalities (duchies and counties, such as the Norman and Angevin regions ...
In time-lapse photography, the camera records images at a specific slow interval such as one frame every thirty seconds (1 ⁄ 30 fps). The shutter will be open for some portion of that time. In short exposure time-lapse the film is exposed to light for a normal exposure time over an abnormal frame interval.
The Pompidou Years, 1969-1974 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (2000) excerpt and text search; Bourg, Julian ed. After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France (2004) 426 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-0792-8. Cerny, Philip G. The Politics of Grandeur: Ideological Aspects of de Gaulle's Foreign Policy.