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Pastry War: Victorious French troops withdraw from Mexico after their demands were satisfied. 1848: February: February Revolution or French Revolution of 1848: Republican riots forced King Louis-Philippe to abdicate and flee to England. 20 December: Louis Napoleon Bonaparte starts his term as the first president of the French Republic.
Gaston Tissandier's Histoire des ballons et des aéronautes célèbres (History of famous balloons and aeronauts) (published in 1887) described Testu-Brissy's earliest ballooning thus : [3] [Note 1] During the last years of the eighteenth century, besides the military applications by men of heart and patriotism, balloons continued to contribute ...
The French Aerostatic Corps or Company of Aeronauts (French: compagnie d'aérostiers) was the world's first balloon unit, [1] founded in 1794 to use balloons, primarily for reconnaissance. Experimentation
Timeline of French history; 0–9. 1606 in France; 1681 in France; Timeline of the 2005 French riots; B. Timeline of the Battle of France; H. History of Lille;
The most important of these conquests for French history was the Norman Conquest by William the Conqueror. [15] An important part of the French aristocracy also involved itself in the crusades, and French knights founded and ruled the Crusader states. The French were also active in the Iberian Reconquista to Rechristianize Muslim Spain and ...
History of French Guiana by period (4 C) H. History of the Illyrian Provinces by period (1 C) L. History of Lyon by period (3 C) M. History of Martinique by period (4 C)
30 January – Édouard Daladier forms a government in France [1] 15 July – Four-Power Pact is signed by Britain, France, Germany, and Italy 7 October – Air France is formed from a merger of Air Orient, Air Union, Compagnie Générale Aéropostale, Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne (CIDNA), and Société Générale de Transport Aérien (SGTA).
That would be compounded by the massive French losses of World War I, roughly estimated at 1.4 million French dead including civilians (or nearly 10% of the active adult male population) and four times as many wounded — and World War II, estimated at 593,000 French dead (one-and-a-half times the number of American dead), of which 470,000 were ...