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This is a list of wars involving modern France from the abolition of the French monarchy and the establishment of the French First Republic on 21 September 1792 until the current Fifth Republic. For wars involving the Kingdom of France (987–1792), see List of wars involving the Kingdom of France. For pre-987 wars, see List of wars involving ...
9 February – Pierre Bourdelot, physician, anatomist, freethinker, abbé and libertine (born 1610) 25 March – Nicolas Robert, miniaturist and engraver (born 1614) 30 October – Michel Le Tellier, statesman (born 1603)
The French population was dissatisfied with the terms, considering the French conquests during the war. 1763: 10 February: Seven Years' War: France and some allied and enemy nations sign the Treaty of Paris ending the Seven Years' War, resulting in a major blow on French colonial possessions. 1768: 15 May
The Doge of Genoa at Versailles on 15 May 1685 Reparation faite à Louis XIV par le Doge de Gênes.15 mai 1685 by Claude Guy Halle, Versailles. In 1682, François Pidou de Saint Olon had become the first French resident envoy to the Republic of Genoa, [2] and he was actively involved in the bombardment: indeed he communicated precious information to the French about the defence of Genoa and ...
French–Tripolitania War (1681–1685) Location: Chios, Tripoli and Tunis. France Tripolitania; Tunis; French Victory French-Algerian War 1681–88 (1681–88) Location: Algiers. France Regency of Algiers: Peace treaty Siamese revolution of 1688 (1688) Location: Siam. Prasat Thong dynasty France. French East India Company; Phetracha and ...
The dragonnades caused Protestants to flee France, even before the Edict of Fontainebleau of 1685 revoked the religious rights granted them by the Edict of Nantes. Most Huguenot refugees sought refuge in countries such as Switzerland , the Dutch Republic (from where some migrated to the Cape Colony in southern Africa ), England , and the German ...
The French attack against the Vaudois was a systematic military campaign in 1686 ordered by Louis XIV against a small Protestant community across the French border in Piedmont. As a result of the campaign, the Vaudois were expelled from their homes, but they returned during the War of the Grand Alliance under an agreement reached with Victor ...
Renewed wars (the War of Devolution, 1667–1668 and the Franco-Dutch War, 1672–1678) brought further territorial gains (Artois and western Flanders and the free County of Burgundy, previously left to the Empire in 1482), but at the cost of the increasingly concerted opposition of rival royal powers, and a legacy of an increasingly enormous ...