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Louis XVIII of France in Coronation Robes, oil on canvas by François Gérard, c. 1814. Hôtel Beauharnais, Paris.

Remains of Roman baths at the Oppidum Saint Vincent (Gaujac, Gard, France), built between 20-25 CE.

Portrait of Henry IV, King of France and Navarre (1553–1610), oil on canvas by Frans Pourbus the Younger, early 17th century. Palace of Versailles.

The Great Cameo of France is a five-layered sardonyx cameo divided into three levels which depicts members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, circa 23 CE. The Great Cameo of France is the largest cameo to survive from the ancient world. It...

Signing of the Treaties of Alliance between the US and France in 1778, which led to France's entry into the American Revolutionary War. Reproduction of an oil on canvas painting by Charles Elliott Mills, c. 1900-1920. The original is in the...

The Schmalkaldic War (1546-1547) was fought between the Protestant Schmalkaldic League and the Catholic armies under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who, having failed to achieve religious unity of his subjects at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530...

The Three Estates of pre-revolutionary France were the hierarchical social divisions that structured society under the Ancien Régime (French for "Old Regime," a term coined after the French Revolution to describe the pre-revolutionary system...

The Quasi-War (1798-1800) or 'Half War' was a limited, undeclared naval conflict fought between the United States and the First French Republic. Hostilities arose when French privateers began attacking neutral American shipping, resulting...

A map of New France c. 1750 CE within the context of European colonies in North America.

Map of France during the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453 CE), around the time of the Treaty of Troyes (1420 CE).