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[6] [7] [8] European historians traditionally dated its beginning with the death of Louis XIV of France in 1715 and its end with the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. Many historians now date the end of the Enlightenment as the start of the 19th century, with the latest proposed year being the death of Immanuel Kant in 1804. [ 9 ]
Louis XIV, King of France 1643–1715. 8 January – Noël Bouton de Chamilly, military officer (born 1636) 29 January – Bernard Lamy, mathematician (born 1640) 20 May – Armand Jean de Vignerot du Plessis, sailor and nobleman (born 1629) 1 September – Louis XIV, King of France since 1643 (born 1638) [4]
1950 — The Debate on the French Revolution, 1789–1800. London: Nicholas Kaye. 1954 — Ambassadors and Secret Agents: The Diplomacy of the First Earl of Malmesbury at the Hague. London: Jonathan Cape. 1954 — "The history of Vichy France," in Arnold Toynbee, ed., Hitler's Europe. Oxford University Press. 1955 —The Myth of the French ...
Paris in the 18th century was the second-largest city in Europe, after London, with a population of about 600,000 people. The century saw the construction of Place Vendôme , the Place de la Concorde , the Champs-Élysées , the church of Les Invalides , and the Panthéon , and the founding of the Louvre Museum .
Voltaire Rousseau. 18th-century French literature is French literature written between 1715, the year of the death of King Louis XIV of France, and 1798, the year of the coup d'État of Bonaparte which brought the Consulate to power, concluded the French Revolution, and began the modern era of French history.
France on the eve of the modern era (1477). The red line denotes the boundary of the French kingdom, while the light blue the royal domain. In the mid 15th century, France was significantly smaller than it is today, [a] and numerous border provinces (such as Roussillon, Cerdagne, Calais, Béarn, Navarre, County of Foix, Flanders, Artois, Lorraine, Alsace, Trois-Évêchés, Franche-Comté ...
1789 in France (3 C, 7 P) 1790 in France (3 C, ... Pages in category "Years of the 18th century in France" ... 1715 in France; 1716 in France;
Between 1715 and 1789, the French population grew from 21 to 28 million, 20% of whom lived in towns or cities, Paris alone having over 600,000 inhabitants. [8] This was accompanied by a tripling in the size of the middle class, which comprised almost 10% of the population by 1789. [ 9 ]