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    The first written records for the history of France appeared in the Iron Age. What is now France made up the bulk of the region known to the Romans as...
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    The economic history of France involves major events and trends, including the elaboration and extension of the seigneurial economic system (including...
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    political history of France covers the history of political movements and systems of government in the nation of France, from the earliest stages of the history...
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    history of France encompasses an immense panorama of conflicts and struggles extending for more than 2,000 years across areas including modern France...
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  • "internal history", describing the phonological and grammatical changes undergone by the language itself. Before the Roman conquest of what is now France by...
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  • see History of France. See also the list of Frankish kings, French monarchs, and presidents of France. History of French foreign relations History of France...
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  • France has a rich music history that was already prominent in Europe as far back as the 10th century. French music originated as a unified style in medieval...
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    The demography of France is monitored by the Institut national d'études démographiques (INED) and the Institut national de la statistique et des études...
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    transgender (LGBT) history in France. Around the end of Paleolithic, humanity started to make artifacts which suggest an appreciation of homosexual eroticism...
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    The history of the Jews in France deals with Jews and Jewish communities in France since at least the Early Middle Ages. France was a centre of Jewish...
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    France. The school system was modernized during the French Revolution, but roughly in the 18th and early 19th century debates ranged on the role of religion...
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  • The legal history of France is commonly divided into three periods: that of the old French law (Ancien Droit), that of the Revolutionary or intermediary...
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    The history of French Guiana dates back to the period prior to European colonization. Prior to the arrival of the first Europeans, there was no written...
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    The Kingdom of France in the Middle Ages (roughly, from the 10th century to the middle of the 15th century) was marked by the fragmentation of the Carolingian...
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    The geography of France consists of a terrain that is mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in the north and west and mountainous in the south (including...
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    The cinema of France comprises the film industry and its film productions, whether made within the nation of France or by French film production companies...
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  • France was one of the largest military powers to come under occupation as part of the Western Front in World War II. The Western Front was a military...
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  • major political scandal that proved to be a turning point in the history of France. The modern "far right", or radical right, formed as a distinct political...
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    The history of France from 1900 to the present includes: the later years of the Third Republic (1870–1940) World War I (1914–1918) Interwar Period (1918–1939)...
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    According to the French National Institute of Statistics INSEE, the 2021 census counted nearly 7 million immigrants (foreign-born people) in France, representing...
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    worthy of Rome; only Rome is worthy of Paris." History The France-Italy Treaty, signed in 1947, established a close partnership between France and Italy...
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    Libération. France portal Journalism portal History of journalism § France List of newspapers in France Magazine § France Media of France Office de Radiodiffusion...
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  • to 1940, the French Third Republic was at war with Nazi Germany. In 1940, the German forces defeated the French in the Battle of France. The Germans occupied...
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    In the history of France, the period from 1789 to 1914, dubbed the "long 19th century" by the historian Eric Hobsbawm, extends from the French Revolution's...
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    The history of the Catholic Church in France is inseparable from the history of France, and should be analyzed in its peculiar relationship with the State...
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  • The history of medicine in France focuses on how the medical profession and medical institutions in France have changed over time. Early medicine in France...
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    established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere. France established colonies in much of eastern North America, on several Caribbean islands, and...
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    List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France (since 1800) List of Ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom (since 1800) Military history of England...
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    région Île-de-France are taken from the historic province of Champagne. See French history. The history of Île-de-France (Isle of France) dates back to...
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    French nationality law is historically based on the principles of jus soli (Latin for "right of soil") and jus sanguinis, according to Ernest Renan's...
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