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  2. Généralité - Wikipedia

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    Before the 14th century, oversight of the collection of royal taxes fell generally to the baillis and sénéchaux in their circumscriptions. Reforms in the 14th and 15th centuries saw France's royal financial administration run by two financial boards which worked in a collegial manner: the four généraux des finances (also called général conseiller or receveur général) oversaw the ...

  3. Ancien régime - Wikipedia

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    ' old rule ') was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France that the French Revolution overturned [1] through its abolition in 1790 of the feudal system of the French nobility [2] and in 1792 through its execution of the king and declaration of a republic. [3] "Ancien régime" is now a common metaphor for "a system or mode no ...

  4. 1542 in France - Wikipedia

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    Antoine Escalin des Aimars March 8 – Antoine Escalin des Eymars, the French ambassador, returns from Constantinople with promises of Ottoman aid in a war against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. July 12 - King Francis I, after allying with Suleiman the Magnificent, declares war once again on Charles V, starting the Italian War of 1542–1546. [2]

  5. Category:1540s in France - Wikipedia

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    1549 in France (1 P) C. 1540s in the French colonial empire (3 C) I. Italian War of 1542–1546 ... 1542 in France; 1543 in France; 1544 in France;

  6. Marguerite de La Rocque - Wikipedia

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    Marguerite de La Rocque de Roberval (fl 1515–1542) was a French noblewoman who spent some years marooned on the Île des Démons while on her way to New France (Quebec). She became well known after her subsequent rescue and return to France; her story was recounted in the Heptaméron by Queen Marguerite of Navarre, and in later histories by François de Belleforest and André Thévet.

  7. Timeline of French history - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Siege of Perpignan (1542) - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Perpignan took place in 1542, at Perpignan, between a larger French army commanded by Henry, Dauphin of France and the Spanish garrison at Perpignan. [1] The Spaniards resisted until the arrival of the Spanish army under Don Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, causing the withdrawal of the French army.

  9. 1524 - Wikipedia

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    Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (d. 1592) Jean Pithou, French lawyer and author (d. 1602); and his twin brother, Nicolas Pithou, French lawyer and author (d. 1598) Joseph Nasi, Portuguese Sephardi diplomat and administrator (d. 1579) Thomas Tusser, English poet and farmer (d. 1580) Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (d. 1580) [14]