* 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.

* 1580 – One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.

* 1924 – Raymond Barre, French politician, Prime Minister of France ( d. 2007 )

* 1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years ' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.

* 1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $ 15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.

* 1245 – Philip III of France ( d. 1285 )

* 1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.

* 1593 – Pierre Barrière fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.

* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.

* 1644 – Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France ( d. 1710 )

* 1516 – The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed.

* 1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.

* 1960 – The Central African Republic declares independence from France.

* 1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.

* 1830 – Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.

* 2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

* 1960 – Dahomey ( later renamed Benin ) declares independence from France.

* 881 – Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.

* 1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France.

* 1960 – Niger gains independence from France.

* 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.

* 1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L ' Aigle, France ; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.

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* 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France.

* 1319 – John II of France ( d. 1364 )

* France – Fleur-de-lis, Eiffel Tower

He is waving his hat in one hand to attract their attention, and with the other hand carries a captured flag with the Fleur-de-lis ( a symbol of France )-symbolic of the news relayed to the dying Wolfe that the French were being defeated.

The kings of the Ancien Régime and the July Monarchy used the title Empereur de France in diplomatic correspondence and treaties with the Ottoman emperor from at least 1673 onwards.

These remained very different until a counter-movement in the 17th to 18th centuries imposed similar styles once again, mostly originating from Ancien Régime France.

France in the Ancien Régime covered a territory of around.

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* April 26 – A general amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allows all but about 1, 000 of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture to make peace with the various factions of the Ancien Regime that ultimately consolidates his own rule.

The Feuillants wished to keep the constitutional monarchy as it was developed by the Assemblée, the latter two favored purging France of its royal past ( Ancien Régime ), each in their own way.

In Ancien Régime France, a nom de guerre ( a French phrase meaning " war name ") would be adopted by each new recruit ( or assigned to him by the captain of his company ) as he enlisted in the French army.

The standard of the French royal family under the Early Modern France | Ancien Régime and the Bourbon Restoration | restoration period.

Most Patriots went into exile in France, while the Ancien Régime strengthened its grip on the government through the Orangist Grand Pensionary Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel.

While Louis XVI, as a constitutional king, enjoyed broad popularity among the population, his indecisiveness and conservatism led some elements of the people of France eventually to view him as a symbol of the perceived tyranny of the Ancien Régime, and his popularity deteriorated progressively.

The machine was successful as it was considered a humane form of execution, contrasting with the methods used in pre-revolutionary, Ancien Régime France.

The feast day of Saint John the Baptist or Midsummer was a very popular event in the Ancien régime of France, and it is still celebrated as a religious feast day in several countries, like Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Perhaps the most accessible source for the near-original meaning of ideology is Hippolyte Taine's work on the Ancien Regime ( the first volume of " Origins of Contemporary France ").

* Ancien Régime in France

The arms of " France Moderne ": Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or, a simplified version of France Ancien.

Even before the late 18th-19th century, " metropolitan France " was largely a patchwork of local customs and regional differences that the unifying aims of the Ancien Régime and the French Revolution had only begun to work against, and today's France remains a nation of numerous indigenous and foreign languages, of multiple ethnicities and religions, and of regional diversity that includes French citizens in Corsica, Guadeloupe, Martinique and elsewhere around the globe.

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Napoleon I later declared that the victory at Fontenoy prolonged the Ancien Régime monarchy in France by 30 years.

Those who wished to restore Louis XVIII of France and the < span lang =" fr "> Ancien Régime </ span > and those who would have renewed the Reign of Terror were insignificant in number.

Although the European prominence of French literature was eclipsed in part by vernacular literature in Italy in the 14th century, literature in France in the 16th century underwent a major creative evolution, and through the political and artistic programs of the Ancien Régime, French literature came to dominate European letters in the 17th century.