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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)
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 ...
French minister, Cardinal Richelieu, was the architect of much of France's foreign policy during this time. Roicroi, the last tercio, portraying infantry of a battered Spanish tercio at the 1643 Battle of Rocroi. Corresponding to the Thirty Years' War was the War of the Mantuan Succession, which erupted in 1628.
The War of the Camisards (French: guerre des Camisards) or the Cévennes War (French: guerre des Cévennes) was an uprising of Protestant peasants known as Camisards in the Cévennes and Languedoc during the reign of Louis XIV. The uprising was a response to the Edict of Fountainebleu in 1685.
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 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
Dubois, E. T. "The revocation of the edict of Nantes — Three hundred years later 1685–1985." History of European Ideas 8#3 (1987): 361–365. reviews 9 new books. online; Scoville, Warren Candler. The persecution of Huguenots and French economic development, 1680-1720 (1960). Scoville, Warren C. "The Huguenots in the French economy, 1650 ...