* 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.

" Everyday Life and the Challenge to History in Postwar France: Braudel, Lefebvre, Certeau ," Diacritics, Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 23 – 40 in Project Muse

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

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

From there, Clark went on to Paris, France, where in 1863, a group of racing enthusiasts had formed the French Jockey Club and had organized the Grand Prix de Paris, which at the time was the greatest race in France.

His album Danses et Rythmes de la Turquie d ' hier à aujourd ' hui was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque by the Charles Cros Academie in Paris, France with Moğollar.

Gilbert has also been honored by the National Academy of Sciences ( US Steel Foundation Award, 1968 ); Massachusetts General Hospital ( Warren Triennial Prize, 1977 ); the New York Academy of Sciences ; ( Louis and Bert Freedman Foundation Award, 1977 ), the Academie des Sciences of France ( Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer Award, 1977 ).

He finished in the points on his Formula One début in Argentina and took his first race victory at his home Grand Prix in France a year later, while he was driving for the factory Renault team.

It also won the " Prix de la critique " at the Angoulême International Comics Festival ( France ) in 2001.

On 30 December 1831, Berlioz left France for Rome, prompted by a clause in the Prix de Rome which required winners to spend two years studying there.

* Grand Prix ( horse race ), the original name of the Prix Gladiateur, a horse race in France

The Finn continued his form from 1991, with points scoring finishes in six Grands Prix, his best finishes being fourth places in France and Hungary.

She was formerly president of the Société des Gens de Lettres de France and a member of the Prix Femina jury.

According to France Galop, since 1994 the male bloodline of every Prix de l ' Arc de Triomphe winner goes back to Nearco, his son Nasrullah, and his grandson Northern Dancer.

In his next race, Nijinsky was sent to France for the Prix de l ' Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in Paris in October.

* Caerleon-Three-Year-Old Champion Colt in France, won the Group One Prix du Jockey Club and International Stakes, Leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland ( 1988, 1991 )

* Green Dancer-won 1974 Futurity Stakes, 1975 Prix Lupin, Poule d ' Essai des Poulains, Leading sire in France in 1991

Musical critic Andrew Clements writing for The Guardian commented on Ravel's failures at winning the competition: " Ravel's repeated failure to win the Prix de Rome, the most coveted prize for young composers in France at the turn of the 20th century, has become part of musical folklore.

France has the reputation of being a " literary culture ", and this image is reinforced by such things as the importance of French literature in the French educational system, the attention paid by the French media to French book fairs and book prizes ( like the Prix Goncourt, Prix Renaudot or Prix Femina ) and by the popular success of the ( former ) literary television show " Apostrophes " ( hosted by Bernard Pivot ).

The MSO and Charles Dutoit have received accolades for their numerous recordings, including the Grand Prix du Président de la République ( France ) and the Prix mondial du Disque de Montreux.

On 16 June 1909, Blériot and Voisin were jointly awarded the Prix Osiris, awarded by the Institut de France every three years to the Frenchman who had made the greatest contribution to science.

* Gentlemen & Players: Shortlisted for the Edgar Award, 2007 ( USA ) and the Grand Prix du Polar de Cognac ( France ).

Giraud's prestige in France – where comics are held in high artistic regard – is enormous ; In 1988 Moebius was chosen, among 11 other winners of the prestigious Grand Prix of the Angoulême Festival, to illustrate a postage stamp set issued on the theme of communication .< ref >

* 2001: Les Cent-Jours ou l ' esprit de sacrifice ( Perrin, 2001 – Le Grand livre du mois, 2001 – Perrin, 2002 – Éditions France loisirs, 2003 ); a book about the " One Hundred Days " between the return of Napoleon from Elba and the defeat at the Battle of Waterloo ; awarded the Grand Prix d ' Histoire of the Fondation Napoléon ( 2001 ) and the Prix des Ambassadeurs ( 2001 ).