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Second Opium War: British and French troops entered the Forbidden City in Beijing. 1866: 31 May: French intervention in Mexico: French troops start withdrawing from the country. 1870–1940: Third Republic: 1871: 10 May: The end of the Franco-Prussian War: France's loss marked the downfall of Napoleon III and led to the end of the Second French ...
French Republican Calendar of 1794, drawn by Philibert-Louis Debucourt. The French Republican calendar (French: calendrier républicain français), also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar (calendrier révolutionnaire français), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and ...
December 21: Bonaparte meets with the Irish leader Wolfe Tone to discuss a future French landing in Ireland. December 28: Anti-French riots in Rome, and murder of a French general, Mathurin-Léonard Duphot. December 29: Pope Pius VI apologizes to France for the Rome riots; apologies are rejected by the Directory.
Christmas is celebrated as a public holiday in France on December 25, concurring alongside other countries. Public life on Christmas Day is generally quiet. Post offices, banks, stores, restaurants, cafés and other businesses are closed. Many people in France put up a Christmas tree, visit a special church service, eat an elaborate meal and ...
Flourishing throughout the middle ages and Renaissance, it was conquered by Louis XIV in 1681. After having changed nationality four times between 1870 and 1945, Strasbourg today is a symbol of Franco-German reconciliation and European integration. The following is a detailed history of Strasbourg, France.
Around December 8. Frequency. Annual. The Festival of Lights (French: Fête des lumières, [fɛt de lymjɛʁ]) in Lyon, France is a popular event that originally aimed at expressing gratitude toward Mary, mother of Jesus around December 8 of each year. [2] This unique Lyonnaise tradition dictates that every house place candles along the ...
2016 (Wednesday) 2015 (Monday) 2014 (Sunday) December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar ; 10 days remain until the end of the year.
Samuel de Champlain (French: [samɥɛl də ʃɑ̃plɛ̃]; 13 August 1567 [2][Note 1][Note 2] – 25 December 1635) was a French explorer, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He made between 21 and 29 trips across the Atlantic Ocean, [3] and founded Quebec City, and New France, on 3 ...