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14 July - Ems Dispatch published, serving as a casus belli for war between France and Prussia. 15 July - French army mobilizes. 16 July - Corps législatif votes to declare war on Prussia. 19 July - France declares war on Prussia: opening of the Franco-Prussian War.
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 ...
Bismarck responded by saying that the Prussian Army would occupy France, "we will see if we can get 5 billion francs from it". [3] Bismarck wrote that "France being the richest country in Europe, nothing could keep her quiet but effectually to empty her pockets". [3] The French National Assembly ratified the terms by 546 votes to 107. [3]
The franc (/ f r æ ŋ k /; French: franc français, [fʁɑ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛ]; sign: F or Fr), [n 2] also commonly distinguished as the French franc (FF), was a currency of France.Between 1360 and 1641, it was the name of coins worth 1 livre tournois and it remained in common parlance as a term for this amount of money.
The Second French Empire, [a] officially the French Empire, [b] was the government of France from 2 December 1852 to 4 September 1870 between the Second and the Third French Republics. Ruled by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon III) , the period was one of significant achievements in infrastructure and economy, while France reasserted itself ...
Keersmaeker estimated that the British Empire's share of world GDP was 24.28% in 1870 and 19.7% in 1913. The empire's largest economy in 1870 was British India with a 12.15% share of world GDP, followed by the United Kingdom with a 9.03% share. The empire's largest economy in 1913 was the United Kingdom with an 8.22% share of world GDP ...
The French Third Republic (French: Troisième République, sometimes written as La III e République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government.
The Second Empire (1852–1870) ... In 2015, The New York Times summarized an ongoing conflict between France's secular and individualist values, ...