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Pages in category "French-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,773 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
Pages in category "Surnames of French origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 469 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Louis Deffès (1819–1900) Michel Richard Delalande (1657–1726) Georges Delerue (1925–1992) Léo Delibes (1836–1891) Charles Delioux (1825–1915) Jeanne Demessieux (1921–1968) Alfred Desenclos (1912–1971) Adolphe Deslandres (1840–1911) Alexandre Desplat (born 1961) Louis Diémer (1843–1919) Victor Dourlen (1780–1864) Théodore ...
In 1806, 27,000 men of his III Corps defeated 63,000 Prussians at the Battle of Auerstedt, inflicting 13,000 casualties and capturing 115 enemy guns. Jean Lafitte: c. 1780–c. 1823 French French pirate and privateer, Lafitte and his comrades helped General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans that turned the tide of the War of 1812.
Pages in category "French masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 345 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
Traditionally, most French people were given names from the Roman Catholic calendar of saints. However, given names for French citizens from immigrant communities are often from their own culture, and in modern France it has become increasingly common to use first names of (international) English or other foreign origin.