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He was the fourth French president to die in office, and the first in the history of the Fifth Republic. A former prime minister during the presidency of Charles de Gaulle , Pompidou contested the 1969 presidential election , triggered after de Gaulle resigned; at the age of 57, he was elected to a seven-year term in the second round, defeating ...
The family tree of Frankish and French monarchs (509–1870) France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions. Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I, king of the Franks (r. 507–511), as the first king of ...
Emperor of the French r. 1804–1814, 1815: Joséphine de Beauharnais 1763–1814: Alexandre de Beauharnais 1760–1794: Louis Bonaparte 1778–1846 King of Holland: Napoleon II 1811–1832 Emperor of the French r. 1815 (disputed) Hortense de Beauharnais 1783–1837: Napoleon III 1808–1873 Emperor of the French r. 1852–1870: Eugénie de ...
Here is a look back at the history of health issues in the Royal Family. Kate Middleton In January, the Princess of Wales entered the London Clinic to have abdominal surgery for an unspecified ...
Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron was born in Paris in the reign of King Louis XV.Her parents were Jean François Gabriel, Count of Polastron, seigneur de Noueilles, Venerque and Grépiac (1722-1794), who served as French ambassador to Switzerland, and his wife, Jeanne Charlotte Hérault de Vaucresson (1726-1753).
Members of the royal family were quick to support Charles in different ways
Guy-Crescent Fagon (11 May 1638 – 11 March 1718) was a French physician and botanist. He came from nobility and his uncle, Guy de La Brosse, had founded the Royal Gardens. Fagon was director of the gardens too. [1]
The history of France as recounted in the Grandes Chroniques de France, and particularly in the personal copy produced for King Charles V between 1370 and 1380 that is the saga of the three great dynasties, the Merovingians, Carolingians, and the Capetian Rulers of France, that shaped the institutions and the frontiers of the realm.