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This is a timeline of French history, comprising important legal changes and political events in France and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of France. See also the list of Frankish kings, French monarchs, and presidents of France.
Timelines of New France history (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "French history timelines" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
France's population was 13 million people in 1484 and 20 million in 1700. It had the second largest population in Europe around 1700. France's lead slowly faded after 1700, as other countries grew faster. [25] Political power was widely dispersed. The law courts ("Parlements") were powerful.
It was a constitutional innovation known as popular monarchy which linked the monarch's title to the French people rather than to the possession of the territory of France. [ 5 ] With the House of Bonaparte , the title " Emperor of the French " ( Empereur des Français ) was used in 19th-century France , during the first and second French ...
The Third Republic from its Origins to the Great War, 1871-1914 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) excerpt and text search; Price, Roger. A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (1987) 403pp. 403 pgs. [ISBN missing] Robb, Graham. The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War (2007)
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Tomb of Sainte Geneviève in the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, near the Panthéon A 13th century statue of Childebert I, founder of the future Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés The coronation of Hugh Capet, the Count of Paris, as King of the Franks in 987.
Lists of years or Tables of years are indexes that list all of the individual timelines by year that pertain to a specific topic. Timespans next to the timeline articles listed here include the date of the earliest item included in the linked timeline article.