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  2. French peasants - Wikipedia

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    Philip Calderon "French Peasants Finding Their Stolen Child"; 1859. French peasants were the largest socio-economic group in France until the mid-20th century. The word peasant, while having no universally accepted meaning, is used here to describe subsistence farming throughout the Middle Ages, often smallholders or those paying rent to landlords, and rural workers in general.

  3. Economic history of France - Wikipedia

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    Change in per capita GDP of France, 1820–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 international dollars. The economic history of France involves major events and trends, including the elaboration and extension of the seigneurial economic system (including the enserfment of peasants) in the medieval Kingdom of France, the development of the French colonial empire in the early modern ...

  4. Timeline of French history - Wikipedia

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    14 18th century. 15 19th century. 16 20th century. 17 21st century. 18 See also. 19 References. 20 Bibliography. ... This is a timeline of French history, ...

  5. Ancien régime - Wikipedia

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    The theme recurs throughout 19th-century French literature, with Honoré de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert alike attacking the mores of the new upper classes. To that mindset, the ancien régime had expressed a bygone era of refinement and grace before the revolution and its associated changes ushered in a crude uncertain modernity.

  6. History of France - Wikipedia

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    The "Philosophes" were 18th-century French intellectuals who dominated the French Enlightenment and were influential across Europe. [43] The philosopher Denis Diderot was editor-in-chief of the famous Enlightenment accomplishment, the 72,000-article Encyclopédie (1751–72). [44] It sparked a revolution in learning throughout the enlightened ...

  7. Timeline of the 18th century - Wikipedia

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    1795: The Marseillaise is officially adopted as the French national anthem. 1795: Kamehameha I of the Island of Hawaii defeats the Oahuans at the Battle of Nu'uanu. 1796: Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination; smallpox killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans each year during the 18th century, including five reigning monarchs. [23]

  8. Flour War - Wikipedia

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    In Ancien Régime France, bread was the main source of food for poor peasants And the king was required to ensure the food supply of his subjects, being affectionately nicknamed "the first baker of the kingdom". [2] Food scarcity and famine were everpresent concerns until the modern agricultural revolution, and 18th century France was no ...

  9. French emigration (1789–1815) - Wikipedia

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    French emigration from the years 1789 to 1815 refers to the mass movement of citizens from France to neighboring countries, in reaction to the instability and upheaval caused by the French Revolution and the succeeding Napoleonic rule.