Pauline Vu, Danielle Trujillo,
Vince Bucayu, and Cameron Osborn.

1500’s
•Several wars lost to Spain and England
•Quebec claimed by France
•England loses Calais to France

1600’s
•France, England, and two German states attack
Netherlands
•Edict of Fountaineblea outlaws Protestanism in France
•Famine in France kills millions

1700’s
•France experienced the death of Louis XIV
•beginning of the French Revolution which resulted in political upheaval and social unrest
•Reign of Terror and the execution of Louis

1800’s
•Early years: absolute monarchy
Revolution
•Mid years: Provisional government (liberals, radicals. socialist)
Parliamentary republic (conservatives, liberals)
Republic with separate president and legislature
•Mid-late yrs: Authoritarian bonapartist gov’t
•Late years: Revolution
Parliamentary republic (conservatives, liberals)

1900’s (early)
•In WWI France was among the Allied Powers against the Central Powers, while mainly wanting revenge on Germany.
• After WWI France gained heavy reparations from Germany.
• Again France joined the Allies in WWII to stop Hitler
•Post WWII joined GB and the US to form Trizonia and try and put a stop to
Communism

Cold War
•Struggles to keep its imperial colonies
•Drops out of NATO
•Creates its own system for nuclear study
•Helped the US out in the wars against communist countries

Now
•President : Nicolas Sarkozy
•Prime Minister : Francois Fillon
•Festivals and events are held to remember past events in history

The Hundred Years War(1337-1453)
• A war between France and England over English land holdings in France
• Led to England being expelled from the continent
•It aided military evolution

Habsburg-Valois Wars(1494-1559)
•A war between the Valois ruling family of France and the
Habsburg family of the Holy Roman Empire
•Started over the French claim to the throne of Naples
• It ended with the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis

The Fronde (1648-1652)
•Rebellions by the nobles in attempts to overthrow
Mazarin
• The rebellions were stopped and the power of the monarchy increased
• This caused Louis XIV’s building of the Palace of
Versailles to prevent such a rebellion

Battle of Cerignola 1503
•Between Spanish and French armies, in Cerignola, next
Bari, Southern Italy
•Spanish who was outnumbered, defeat French
• Considered first battle in history won by gunpowder small arms

French Wars of Religion
•Fighting between Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots)
•Ended with Edict of Nantes
• Period of religious intolerance

Edict of Fontainebleau
•King Louis revokes Edict of Nantes
•Ordered destruction of Huguenot schools and churches
•Large number of protestants leave country
•France remained mostly Catholic

French Revolution
•Louis the XVI is executed by the guillotine
• A parliament is put into place

Edict of Nantes
•Conversion to Calvinism
•Allowed Henry IV come to power
• Ends war on religion

Crusaders capture Constantinople( 1189 – 1192)
•Showed decline of the crusader ideal
• Also known as the “Fourth Crusade”
• Brought hatred between Catholics and Orthodox until
20 th century.

The Bastille
•Built between 1370-1381
• Charles VI converted it into a prison with 8 towers
•“Storming of the Bastille” occurred on July 14, 1789

Louis XIV(1643-1715)
•Built the Palace of Versailles and forced his nobles to live there to eliminate all possibilities of mutiny
•Colbert as his head of finance, developed mercantilism
•The Franco Dutch War, the War of the League of
Ausburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession
•Louis also revoked the edict of Nantes

Louis XVI 1774-1792
•Married Marie Antoinette,
•Absolute monarch to a constitutional monarch
•Storming of Bastille, French Revolution, Guillotine, and
Versailles

Napoleon the First: 1804-1814, 1815
•One of the greatest military commanders
•Highly skilled general, politician, and legislator
•War of the Third Coalition, Peninsular War, War of the
Sixth Coalition, and the Hundred Days

Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte(1808-1873)
•President of the French Republic
•Re-established the Empire, authoritarian
•Defeated at Waterloo, France declares war on Prussia,
France in American Civil War, and Crimean War