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The first written records for the history of France appeared in the Iron Age. What is now France made up the bulk of the region known to the Romans as Gaul. Greek writers noted the presence of three main ethno-linguistic groups in the area: the Gauls, Aquitani and Belgae. The Gauls, the largest group, were Celtic people speaking Gaulish.
Académie des sciences morales et politiques. Website. institutdefrance.fr. The Institut de France (French for 'Institute of France'; French: [ɛ̃stity də fʁɑ̃s]) is a French learned society, grouping five académies, including the Académie Française. It was established in 1795 at the direction of the National Convention.
Jules Michelet (French: [ʒyl miʃlɛ]; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) [ 3 ] was a French historian and writer. He is best known for his multivolume work Histoire de France (History of France), [ 4 ] and is considered one of the founders of modern historiography. Michelet was influenced by Giambattista Vico; he admired Vico's emphasis on ...
Today, France, with a population of 62.5 million, or 65 million including overseas territories, is the third most populous country of Europe, behind Russia and Germany. Immigration in the 20th century differed significantly from that of the previous century. The 1920s saw great influxes from Italy and Poland; in the 1930-50s immigrants came ...
The Musée de l'Histoire de France (Museum of French History) is a museum that was created by King Louis Philippe I in the Palace of Versailles and opened in 1837. At the time, it represented an ambitious project of national reconciliation between the hitherto competing narratives of the French monarchy and the French Revolution, to which Louis ...
Essai sur l’histoire de France du Ve s. au Xe s., 1823. Histoire de Charles Ier, 1827, 2 vol. Histoire générale de la civilisation en Europe, 1828. 2e édition Langlet et Cie, 1838. Histoire de la civilisation en France, 1830, 4 vol. Le presbytère au bord de la mer, 1831. Rome et ses papes, 1832. Le ministère de la réforme et le ...
Liberté, égalité, fraternité (French pronunciation: [libɛʁte eɡalite fʁatɛʁnite]), French for ' liberty, equality, fraternity ', [ 1 ] is the national motto of France and the Republic of Haiti, and is an example of a tripartite motto. Although it finds its origins in the French Revolution, it was then only one motto among others and ...
The Grandes Chroniques de France is a vernacular royal compilation of the history of the Kingdom of France, most manuscripts of which are luxury copies that are heavily illuminated. Copies were produced between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, the text being extended at intervals to cover recent events. It was first compiled in the reign ...