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In the 3rd century, Western Europe started to be invaded by Germanic tribes from the north and the east, and some of the groups settled in Gaul.In the history of the French language, the most important groups are the Franks in much of northern France, the Alemanni in the modern German/French border area (), the Burgundians in the Rhône (and the Saone) Valley, the Suebi in the Spanish ...
The modern era of French education began in the 1790s. The Revolution in the 1790s abolished the traditional universities. [69] Napoleon sought to replace them with new institutions, the École Polytechnique, focused on technology. [70] The elementary schools received little attention.
Gaston Doumergue began his term as president of France. 1931: 13 June: Paul Doumer began his term as president of France. 1932: 10 May: Albert Lebrun began his term as president of France. 1934: 6 February: Riots by far-right leagues were repressed by the state in what was considered as a failed coup d'état, and a major political crisis of the ...
It is estimated that modern French took approximately 1000 stem words from Old Franconian. [27] ... begin", OF but "aim, goal, target" or butte "mound, knoll, target"
France on the eve of the modern era (1477). The red line denotes the boundary of the French kingdom, while the light blue the royal domain. In the mid 15th century, France was significantly smaller than it is today, [a] and numerous border provinces (such as Roussillon, Cerdagne, Calais, Béarn, Navarre, County of Foix, Flanders, Artois, Lorraine, Alsace, Trois-Évêchés, Franche-Comté ...
The French monarchy, along with the Kingdom of France itself, was abolished on 21 September 1792, when the First French Republic was proclaimed. The Revolution did away with the concept of ownership of political entities by individuals. As such the French Republic was a unitary state rather than a mosaic of vassals or "semi-states".
The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, [d] then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century. It lasted from 18 May 1804 to 3 May 1814 and again briefly from 20 ...
At a regional level, French is acknowledged as an official language in the Aosta Valley region of Italy (the first government authority to adopt Modern French as the official language in 1536, three years before France itself), [47] in which is spoken as a first language by 1.25% of the population and as a second one by approximately 50%. [48]