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  2. History of French - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. History of France - Wikipedia

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    The modern era of French education began in the 1790s. ... resources did exist and the economy regained normal growth by the 1950s. ...

  4. France in the early modern period - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Frankish language - Wikipedia

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    Frankish (reconstructed endonym: * Frankisk), [8] [9] also known as Old Franconian or Old Frankish, was the West Germanic language spoken by the Franks from the 5th to 10th centuries.

  6. History of Europe - Wikipedia

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    The Early Modern period spans the centuries between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution, roughly from 1500 to 1800, or from the discovery of the New World in 1492 to the French Revolution in 1789.

  7. Timeline of French history - Wikipedia

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    Adolphe Thiers began his term as president of France. 1873: 24 May: Patrice de Mac-Mahon began his term as president of France. 1879: 30 January: Jules Grévy began his term as president of France. 1887: 28 January: Work begins on the foundations of the Eiffel Tower. 3 December: Marie François Sadi Carnot began his term as president of France ...

  8. Kingdom of France - Wikipedia

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    France in the early modern era was increasingly centralised; the French language began to displace other languages from official use, and the monarch expanded his absolute power in an administrative system, known as the Ancien Régime, complicated by historic and regional irregularities in taxation, legal, judicial, and ecclesiastic divisions ...

  9. Territorial evolution of France - Wikipedia

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    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".