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The immediate cause of the war resided in the candidacy of a Prussian prince to the throne of Spain – France feared encirclement by an alliance between Prussia and Spain. The Hohenzollern prince's candidacy was withdrawn under French diplomatic pressure, but Otto von Bismarck goaded the French into declaring war by altering a dispatch sent by ...
City after city was occupied by the French. The Dutch fleet was captured, and the stadtholder William V fled to be replaced by a popular Batavian Republic, a sister republic which supported the revolutionary cause and signed a treaty with the French, ceding the territories of North Brabant and Maastricht to France on 16 May.
Prior to the revolution, France was a de jure absolute monarchy, a system that became known as the Ancien Régime.In practice, the power of the monarchy was typically checked by the nobility, the Roman Catholic Church, institutions such as the judicial parlements, national and local customs and, above all, the threat of insurrection.
The French Revolution (French: Révolution française [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
There was only one cause common to all underground newspapers: to appeal to as many French people as possible to join the fight against the occupier, to "chase away the invader" [b] as Libération wrote in August 1941, with the aim of liberating French territory. The first form of action targeted by the underground press was the call to read ...
2011: Grand prix du livre d'histoire Ouest-France for Les Soldats de la honte. [21] 2013: Audience prize at the 2013 Pessac International History Film Festival for Le procès du viol; 2014: Prix de l'Académie de Marseille for La faute au Midi. 2016: Audience Award at FIPA 2016 for Corée: nos soldats oubliés.
The Pastry War (Spanish: Guerra de los pasteles; French: Guerre des Pâtisseries), also known as the first French intervention in Mexico or the first Franco-Mexican war (1838–1839), began in November 1838 with the naval blockade of some Mexican ports and the capture of the fortress of San Juan de Ulúa in the port of Veracruz by French forces sent by King Louis Philippe I.
During her husband's campaigns, Madame de la Ferté-Imbault usually resided at the Château du Mont-Saint-Sulpice. From 1627, he also restored his Château de La Ferté-Imbault, which had fallen victim to the Wars of Religion in 1562, and modernized the one at Mauny, near Rouen. The Marquis died at his château de Mauny in Mauny on 20 May 1668 ...