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	French Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the French Revolution (1789-1799) democracy and republicanism replaced the absolute monarchy in France, and the French sector of the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring.
		The Concordat of 1801 between the National Assembly and the Church ended the dechristianisation period and established the rules for a relationship between the Catholic Church and the French State that lasted until it was abrogated by the Third Republic on the separation of church and state on December 11, 1905.
		In the Brunswick Manifesto, the Imperial and Prussian armies threatened retaliation on the French population should it resist their advance or the reinstatement of the monarchy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_Revolution (4962 words)

	French History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The fort’s garrison of twenty-four French and twenty-two Indian allies, commanded by de Baugy, poured a tremendous volley of musket and cannon fire at the Iroquois.
		De Liette, a French officer and fur trader, lived in the Illinois Country for approximately thirty years and was in command of the French outposts between present-day Chicago and Peoria.
		The French influence in LaSalle County and the Illinois Country spanned the period between 1673 and 1763 and the visible image of those early days is reflected in the logo of the LaSalle County seal.
	www.lasallecountymuseum.org /localhistory/french_history.htm (4063 words)

	french language history in france -- from latin & provencal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		French, as it is spoken today by a vast Francophone population, began to become standardized with Charlemagne's conquest of the Gauls and Franks in the 16th Century.
		French is used as the official language of 22 countries and is the co-official language of several others, including Belgium, Canada, Haiti, Madagascar, and Switzerland.
		The source of modern French (and of the other Romance languages) was a spoken, popular version of the Latin tongue that was spread abroad by conquering Roman legions – namely, in the case of French, to so-called “Transalpine Gaul” by the armies of Julius Caesar during the century that preceded the birth of Christ.
	www.alsintl.com /languages/french1.htm (853 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: French Literature
		The great representative of history in the Middle Ages is Froissart (1337-1410); in him we have to deal with a veritable writer.
		For the masses in the Middle Ages, the Church was the home where, united in the same thoughts, and the same consoling hopes, they spent that part of their lives which was the best, and so the longest offices of the church were the most beloved by the people.
		For thorough understanding of the development of French literature in the seventeenth century, we must consider it in three periods: (1) from the year 1600 to 1659, the period of preparation; (2) 1659-1688, the Golden Age of classicism; (3) 1688-1715, the period of transition between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06190a.htm (14989 words)

	Old French Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The earliest documents said to be in French are the Oaths of Strasbourg, which are treaties and charters entered by king Charles the Bald in 842.
		Old French shared with the rest of the Vulgar Latin world the loss of final -M. Since this sound was basic to the Latin noun case system, its loss levelled the distinctions upon which the synthetic Latin syntax relied, and forced the Romance languages to adapt a more analytic syntax based on word order.
		Curiously, Old French was later to discard the Latin final -S that marked the nominative case of many nouns than the rest of Proto-Romance.
	www.artisticnudity.com /encyclopedia/Old_French (2256 words)

	The Secret History of French Fries
		French claim it was one of their countrymen, while the Belgians fiercely hold that it was one of their own who first frenched a fry.
		Today, French fries account for more than one-fourth of all potatoes sold in the U.S. market—over six million pounds of potatoes are processed into frozen fries annually.
		Twenty-five percent of kids report eating French fries instead of other vegetables, and the average American eats thirty pounds of the greasy things in a year.
	www.stim.com /Stim-x/9.2/fries/fries-09.2.html (1835 words)

	Cinco de Mayo History
		Because 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862.
		Napoleon's French Army had not been defeated in 50 years, and it invaded Mexico with the finest modern equipment and with a newly reconstituted Foreign Legion.
		In response, the French did a most stupid thing; they sent their cavalry off to chase Diaz and his men, who proceeded to butcher them.
	www.vivacincodemayo.org /history.htm (644 words)

	French History Timeline
		With the help of a French peasant girl, Joan of Arc, Charles VIII emerged victorious in the war and drove the English back to Calais.
		The 17th century is noted for being a period of extravagance and power for the French Monarchy.
		Louis XIV, however, is the French king most associated with this period.
	www.uncg.edu /rom/courses/dafein/civ/timeline.htm (2124 words)

	History & info - French Revolutionary calendar (1793 - 1806)
		The French Revolutionary Calendar (or Republican Calendar) was officially adopted in France on October 24, 1793 and abolished on 1 January 1806 by Emperor Napoleon I. It was used again briefly during under the Paris Commune in 1871.
		The French also established a new clock, in which the day was divided in ten hours of a hundred minutes of a hundred seconds - exactly 100,000 seconds per day.
		Years are counted since the establishment of the first French Republic on 22 September 1792.
	webexhibits.org /calendars/calendar-french.html (577 words)

	New Orleans French Quarter History, Architecture and Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Some residents of the French Quarter are the fifth generation of their families to live in the Vieux Carré.
		The cornstalk fence is similar to a fence at Colonel Short's Villa in New Orleans Garden District and was cast at the Philadelphia foundry of Wood and Perot.
		The Old Ursuline Convent at 112 Chartres Street in the French Quarter, built in 1745, is believed to be the oldest building in the Mississippi Valley.
	www.inetours.com /New_Orleans/French_Quarter_History.html (1635 words)

	French History \| History of France \| French Civilization and Culture \| Questia.com Online Library
		French Civilization: From Its Origins to the Close of the Middle Ages (1921)
		...I have dealt with by striking an average for the value of French currency throughout the reign, and the second by translating-very...school, he is incomparably the ablest...
		French socialism, which had in...years occupy a period in French history longer than the First...
	www.questia.com /Index.jsp?CRID=french_history&OFFID=se1 (535 words)

	French Art
		Italian scholars and critics of this period proclaimed that their age had progressed beyond the barbarism of the past and had found its inspiration in the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome.
		The French Renaissance was strongly influenced by the works of the Italians.
		French Fauvisme is a style of painting that flourished in France from 1898 to 1908.
	www.uncg.edu /rom/courses/dafein/civ/art.htm (803 words)

	Text / The Complete Military History of France
		Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein." Sadly, widespread use of condoms by American forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.
		After having their way with the French for 70 years, the Norse are bribed by a French King named Charles the Simple (really!) who gave them Normandy in return for peace.
		The French consider the departure of the French from Algeria in 1962-63, after 130 years on colonialism, as a French victory and especially consider C. de Gaulle as a hero for 'leading' said victory over the unwilling French public who were very much against the departure.
	www.albinoblacksheep.com /text/france.html (1122 words)

	CNN.com - French history of fighting terror - September 19, 2001
		The French are familiar with acts of terror and with seeing their military on duty abroad.
		French troops have served overseas, most notably in the former colonies in Africa.
		French participation might come in a different operational theatre than Central Asia.
	www.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/09/19/gen.france.terror/index.html (589 words)

	Education French History Syste - BigWalk.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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	France.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		General history of Vendée with sections on the insurrection.
		Napoleon dedicated to the study of the civil, military, social and artistic achievements of the First and Second French Empires.
		Le Paris de Philippe-Auguste - history of the wall he built around the capital, trade, education, and architecture (in English and French).
	www.brocku.ca /history/French.html (494 words)

	History Provence Highlights: Roman Kings Knights Medieval Napolean Plague ... by France Beyond
		History Provence Highlights: Roman Kings Knights Medieval Napolean Plague...
		Beyond's History section brings you historical information about France, with a focus on items of particular interest to Provence.
		From the Popes who ruled the Catholic world from their Pope's Palace in Avignon to the Marquis de Sade with his less than saintly reputation.
	www.provencebeyond.com /history (391 words)

	History of French Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This kind of internal history, along with some aspects of external history are more effectively studied in print.
		To my thinking as an amateur external historian, these efforts are simply a continuation of the process which began in 813 at the Council of Tours (and in 3 or 4 others that year), where the Church enjoined clergy to preach "in rusticam romanam linguam".
		From this point, court and monastic sponsorship of writing, along with the extension of political and military dominion are important determiners in the growth of status for the various romance idioms.
	globegate.utm.edu /french/globegate_mirror/histfren.html (869 words)

	Royalty.nu - French History - Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI and the French Revolution
		Lafayette, the French marquis who became an American general, was at Versailles during the reign of Louis XV but was never comfortable there.
		A history of the French Revolution as seen through the eyes of the royal family.
		The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution by Roger Chartier and Lydia G. Cochrane considers the causes of the revolution.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/France/MarieAntoinette.html (3418 words)

	History of French Language
		Haitian and Louisiana French are such languages, as are the varieties of Portuguese found in Macao and Goa.
		French-based Creole is found in Haiti, Mauritius, the French Overseas Departments of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion, and Guyana, in Dominica and St. Lucia, and, although disappearing, in various British-influenced Caribbean islands and in southwestern Louisiana.
		Laura K. Lawless, an adult-education French teacher and freelance translator currently pursuing a Master's degree in French, is your Guide to French Language at About.com, providing a host of helpful articles and links.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Language/DF_language.shtml (1955 words)

	French cheese: history, variety, taste, tips
		The French have always regarded cheese as essential, whether they buy it on site (in farms), or in supermarkets.
		The 400 sorts of French cheese recorded can be made with milk or with pasteurised milk.
		From a legal pont of view, farm cheese "is a hand made in farms, with the milk of a single drove, each day".
	www.franceway.com /cheese/intro.htm (1242 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Why Do They Hate Us? Two Books Take Aim at French Anti-Americanism - Walter Russell Mead
		For example, when the aged and revered Victor Hugo, one of a handful of consistently pro-American figures in French history, came to view the head of the Statue of Liberty being prepared for New York City, he gazed on the statue and uttered a suitable phrase.
		In the realms of power politics, economics, and culture, French anti-Americanism is the psychological footprint of a conflict -- a conflict all the more irksome to the loser simply because the winner never seems to have paid it much attention.
		The dog-eat-dog competition of Anglo-Saxon capitalism forces French firms to adjust, and it steadily undermines France's efforts to maintain its social status quo.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /20030301fareviewessay10345/walter-russell-mead/why-do-they-hate-us-two-books-take-aim-at-french-anti-americanism.html (1635 words)

	Amazon.com: The French Revolution (History Channel) (2005): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The French Revolution is a definitive feature-length documentary that encapsulates this heady (and often headless) period in Western civilization.
		The French Revolution is without question one of the most important events of the 18th century if not world history in general.
		But they have really out done themselves with The French Revolution, as it covers the numerous causes of this important insurrection, focusing on major personages in the aristocracy, the enlightenment and the key political insurgents, painting excellent portraits of Maximus Robespierre and the mad journalist, Marat, leading to their ironic and bloody ends.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007GP836?v=glance (1565 words)

	Restoration, in French history. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		in French history, the period from 1814 to 1830.
		The Bourbon regime was responsible for considerable French economic recovery and expansion and for the restoration of French prestige abroad.
		See N. Hudson, Ultra-Royalism and the French Restoration (1936); G. de Bertier de Sauvigny, France and the European Alliance (1958), D. Resnick, The White Terror and the Political Reaction after Waterloo (1966); J. Stewart, The Restoration Era in France (1968).
	www.bartleby.com /65/re/RestorFr.html (266 words)

	French language: History of French (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although modern French thus inherited several hundred words of Celtic origin and several hundred more from Germanic, it owes its structure and the greater part of its vocabulary to Latin.
		It is called Old French and was current from the 9th to the 13th cent.
		Of the various dialects of Old French, Francien (the north-central dialect spoken in Paris and the region around it) in time became the standard form of the language because of the increasing political and cultural importance of Paris.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0858274.html (502 words)

	France,French Speaking Countries,French travel sources,accommodations France,paris france ile de france,English-French ...
		French gourmet food, gourmet French recipes, French cheese [fromage] and French cooking basics.
		historical maps, Charlemagne to Eleanor of Aquitaine -- one of the most powerful women in French history -- and young Joan of Arc and her battles with the English.
		Find the information here, for French language schools in France, or if you need information regarding one of the French universities, it's here.
	www.french-at-a-touch.com (341 words)

	French History - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is the second edition of a comprehensive study of the French wars of religion.
		This is an updated synthesis of the scholarship on the history of Catholicism from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
		Timothy Smith argues that the French economy and society is in crisis and that globalization is not to blame.
	www.cambridge.org /browse/default.asp?subjectid=1117953 (346 words)

	French History @ ArabesQ
		The Enlightenment, The French Revolution and Napolean Virtual Classroom Webpage the ideas of the Renaissance continued and grew into the French Revolution.
		Experiences of the French Huguenots in America "This document was written in about 1908 and contains information on persecutions of the French Huguenots and their flight to America.
		Chateau de Versailles This official site talks about the history and people who lived in the chateau, their lives, the art found there, and includes panoramic images of a few areas.
	www.arabesq.com /educate/France.html (1239 words)

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