ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : France </title> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2003-2007 --> </head> <body bgcolor="lightblue" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../periods.html"> <img src = "../../meh.jpg" border = "0"> </a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "150" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xtimelines.html"> <img src = "../timelines.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "100" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on April 25th 2003, last revised on September 21st 2007</i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : France </B></font> <BR> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"><i> http://www.zum.de/whkmla/timelines/meh/tlfrance.html </i></font></B> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1562-1598 <BR> 1598 <BR> 1635-1659 <BR> 1648-1653 <BR> 1661 <BR> 1661-1683 <BR> 1682 <BR> 1685 <BR> 1715 <BR> 1720 <BR> 1740-1778 <BR> 1756-1763 <BR> 1774 <BR> 1789-1799 <BR> 1789-1792 <BR> 1792 <BR> 1792-1794 <BR> 1795-1799 <BR> 1799-1804 (09) <BR> 1804 (09)-1813 <BR> 1815 <BR> 1815-1830 <BR> 1830 <BR> 1830-1848 <BR> 1848 <BR> 1848-1852 <BR> 1852-1870 <BR> 1870-1871 <BR> 1871 <BR> 1871-1940 <BR> 1889 <BR> 1894-1906 <BR> 1914-1918 <BR> 1927 <BR> 1934 <BR> 1936-1937 <BR> 1939-1940 <BR> 1940 V-VI <BR> 1940-1944 <BR> 1940-1944 <BR> 1944 <BR> 1944-1959 <BR> 1948-1951 <BR> 1954 <BR> 1957 <BR> 1958-1960 <BR> 1959 <BR> 1964 <BR> 1967 <BR> 1968 <BR> </font></TD> <BR><TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Huguenot Wars <BR> Edict of Nantes grants Huguenots Religious Toleration <BR> France involved in 30 Years War; continues War against Spain, breaks Spanish military power <BR> Fronde <BR> Death of Cardinal Mazarin; King Louis XIV. assumes personal rule <BR> Jean-Baptiste Colbert Controlleur General; implements Mercantilistic Policy <BR> Gallican Church declares herself largely independent from Rome <BR> Revocation of Edict of Nantes causes mass exodus of Huguenots <BR> Death of Louis XIV; France technically bankrupt <BR> Louisiana Bubble; Bank of France fails, John Law flees France <BR> Enlightenment in France <BR> Seven Years War ends with cession of Canada to England <BR> Death of Louis XV. <BR> French Revolution <BR> National, Legislative Assembly <BR> Deposition of King Louis XVI. (executed Jan. 1793), proclamation of (First) Republic <BR> National Convention; Reign of Terror <BR> Directorate <BR> Consulate <BR> (First) Empire <BR> Hundred Days <BR> Restored Bourbon Dynasty <BR> July Revolution <BR> July Monarchy; Citizen King Louis Philippe <BR> Revolutions of 1848 <BR> Second Republic <BR> Second Empire <BR> Franco-German War <BR> Paris Commune <BR> Third Republic <BR> Boulanger Affair <BR> Dreyfus Affair <BR> First World War <BR> Devaluation of Franc <BR> Stavisky Affair <BR> Popular Front Government <BR> Drole de Guerre - Phoney War <BR> France defeated by Germany in Six Weeks Campaign <BR> Vichy Administration (Henri Philippe Petain) <BR> Free French Administration in Brazzaville (Charles de Gaulle) <BR> Invasion of Normandy, Liberation of France <BR> Fourth Republic <BR> France benefits from Marshall Plan <BR> Battle of Dien Bien Phu; Indochina lost <BR> France founding member of EEC <BR> Decolonixation in Africa (Algeria granted Independence 1962) <BR> Currency Reform; Begin of Fifth Republic <BR> France a nuclear power <BR> France withdraws from NATO's military structure <BR> Student Demonstrations cause Government Crisis <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "700"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> WHKMLA Country History Page, France : <A HREF = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/france/xfrance.html"> http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/france/xfrance.html</A> <BR><BR> <A NAME = "bib">Bibliography</A> <BR><BR> Roger Price, <B>A Concise History of France</B>, Cambridge Concise Histories, 1993, 387 pp., KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>944 P945a</B> <BR> Gino Raymond, <B>Historical Dictionary Of France</B>, 1998, 336 pp., KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>R 944.003 R258h</B> <BR> W. Scott Haine, <B>The History of France</B>, Greenwood Histories of Modern Nations, 2000, 260 pp., KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>944 H152t</B> <BR> Daniel Roche, <B>France in the Age of Enlightenment</B>, trsl. by A. Goldhammer, Cambridge : Harvard UP 1998, KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>944.034 R673f</B> <BR> David J. Sturdy, <B>Louis XIV.</B>, NY : St. Martin's, 1998, KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>944.033 S935l</B> <BR> Antonia Fraser, <B>Marie Antoinette</B>, NY : Random House, 2001, KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>944.035 F841m</B> <BR> William Doyle, <B>The Oxford History of the French Revolution</B>, NY : Oxford UP 1989, KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>944.04 D754t</B> <BR> Elaine Mokhtefi, <B>Paris, an Illustrated History</B>, NY : Hippocrene, 2002, KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>944.361 M761p</B> <BR> David Potter (ed.), <B>The French Wars of Religion</B>, Selected Documents, NY : St. Martin's, 1997, KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>944.029 P868t</B> <BR> Colin Heywood, <B>The Development of the French Economy, 1750-1914</B>, Cambridge : UP 1995, 74 pp., KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>330.944 H622d</B> <BR> Fran&ccedil;ois Furet, <B>Revolutionary France, 1770-1880</B>, trsl. by Antonia Nevill, Oxford : Blackwell (1988) 2004, 630 pp., KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>944.04 F983r</B> <BR> Maurice Agulhon, <B>The Republican Experiment 1848-1852</B>, (Fr. Or. 1973, Eng. Trsl. 1983) Cambridge UP 1999, KMLA Lib. Call Sign <B>944.07 A 284r</B> <BR> Alain Plessis, <B>The Rise & Fall of the Second Empire 1852-1870</B>, (Fr. Or. 1979, Eng. Trsl. 1985), Cambridge UP 1989, KLMA Lib. Call Sign <B>944.07 P726r</B> <BR> Jean-Marie Mayeur and Madeleine Reberioux, <B>The Third Republic from its Origins to the Great War 1871-1914</B>, (Fr. Or. 1973, Eng. Trsl. 1984), Cambridge UP 1994, KMLA Lib. Call Sign <B>944.081 M468t</B> <BR> Philippe Bernard and Henri Dubief, <B>The Decline of the Third Republic 1914-1938</B>, (Fr. Or. 1975, Eng. Trsl. 1985) Cambridge UP 1993, KMLA Lib. Call Sign <B>944.0814 B518d</B> <BR> Jacques de Launay, <B>De Gaulle and his France. A Psychpolitical and Historical Portrait of Charles de Gaulle</B>, NY : Julian Press 1968 <B>[G]</B> <BR> Peter McPhee, <B>A Social History of France 1789-1914</B>, Basingstoke : Palgrave MacMillan (1992) 2004, KMLA Lib. Call Sign <B>306.0944 M478s</B> <BR><BR> Janet Flanner, <B>Paris Journal, 1944-1955</B>, San Diego : HBJ 1965 <B>[G]</B> <BR> Stanley Karnow, <B>Paris in the Fifties</B>, NY : Three Rivers 1997 <B>[G]</B> <BR> Andrew Shennan, <B>Profiles in Power : De Gaulle</B>, Harlow : Pearson 1993 <B>[G]</B> <BR> Charles Williams, <B>Petain. How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History</B>, Basingstoke : Palgrave MacMillan 2005, KMLA Lib. Call Sign <B>944.0816 W721p</B> <BR> Charles Williams, <B>The Last Great Frenchman. The Life of General Charles de Gaulle</B>, London : Little, Brown & Co. 1993, KMLA Lib. Call Sign <B>944.836 W721l</B> <BR> <B>France Empire and Republic, 1850-1940</B>, Historical Documents Selected and Introduced by David Thomson, NY : Harper Torchbooks 1968 <B>[G]</B> <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> </DIV><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "0"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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