The third congress took place in 1818 to decide the fate of occupied Napoleonic France.

The atoll has been occupied at various times by guano miners, would-be settlers or military personnel, mostly from Mexico, which formerly claimed it until international arbitration awarded it to France in 1931.

Rome was occupied by France ( 11 July – 28 September 1799 ) and again by Naples ( 30 September 1799 – 23 June 1800 ), bringing an end to the Roman Republic.

In 1734, after a few months occupied with commerce in Bristol, he went to La Flèche in Anjou, France.

For the following years with his family, till he left for studies in Paris in 1525, Francis ' life in the Kingdom of Navarre, then partially occupied by Spain, was surrounded by a war that lasted over 18 years, ending with the Kingdom of Navarre being partitioned into two territories, and the King of Navarre and some loyalists abandoning the south and moving to the northern part of the Kingdom of Navarre ( currently France ).

To France, soon to be invaded and occupied by Nazi forces, the film most expressed the " perseverance of democracy and the American way.

He went to Paris after the liberation of France and to Cologne once it had been occupied by the Allies.

France occupied Gabon in 1885, but did not administer it until 1903.

Allied Forces won in North Africa, invaded Italy in 1943, and invaded occupied France in 1944.

In November 1942 Vichy France was finally occupied by German forces, because the war in North Africa was coming to an end ; the Germans foresaw a threat in southern Europe by the allied forces.

* 1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.

* 1941 – World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.

France and Belgium occupied the Ruhr and established martial law.

During the war, Krupp was allowed to take over many industries in occupied nations, including Arthur Krupp steel works in Berndorf, Austria, the Alsacian Corporation for Mechanical Construction ( Elsaessische Maschinenfabrik AG, or ELMAG ), Robert Rothschild's tractor factory in France, Škoda Works in Czechoslovakia, and Deutsche Schiff-und Maschinenbau AG ( Deschimag ) in Bremen.

Lebanon gained independence in 1943, while France was occupied by Germany.

During the Second World War, following the armistice of 22 June 1940, continental Normandy was part of the German occupied zone of France.

* The coastal zone between occupied France and England must be dominated by heavy artillery.

In 1920 the Saargebiet was occupied by Britain and France under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.

With the fall of France in 1940 during World War II, Syria came under the control of the Vichy Government until the British and Free French occupied the country in July 1941.

Subsequently, in what is known in Egypt as the Tripartite Aggression, Israeli forces, aided by Britain, and France ( which sought to reverse the nationalisation and regain control over the Suez Canal ), invaded Sinai and occupied much of the peninsula within a few days.

During the War of the Second Coalition ( 1799 – 1801 ), Britain occupied most of the French and Dutch colonies ( the Netherlands had been a satellite of France since 1796 ), but tropical diseases claimed the lives of over 40, 000 troops.

France occupied Tunisia and Great Britain Ottoman Egypt.

This provided yet a further blow to French prestige, as it was the first part of Metropolitan France to be occupied.

In France during the war the tour de force Children of Paradise directed by Marcel Carné ( 1945 ), was shot in Nazi occupied Paris.

* August 17 – WWII: First raid by heavy bombers of U. S. Eighth Air Force against occupied France.

* 1532 – the Duchy of Brittany is united to the Kingdom of France.

The viguerie of Barcelonnette ( also comprising Saint-Martin and Entraunes ) was reattached to France in 1713 as part of a territorial exchange with the Duchy of Savoy during the Treaties of Utrecht.

The Duchy of Aquitaine was the largest and richest province of France ; Poitou ( where Eleanor spent most of her childhood ) and Aquitaine together were almost one-third the size of modern France.

On 26 February 1815, Napoleon abandoned Elba for France, reviving the French Empire for a Hundred Days ; the Allies declared an end to Napoleon's sovereignty over Elba on 25 March 1815, and on 31 March 1815 Elba was ceded to the restored Grand Duchy of Tuscany by the Congress of Vienna.

The Normans, a Viking people who settled in Northern France and founded the Duchy of Normandy would have a significant impact on many parts of Europe, from the Norman conquest of England to Southern Italy and Sicily.

The Treaties of Tilsit divided Europe between France and Russia and created the Duchy of Warsaw.

Peace was settled in the Treaty of Vienna ( 1738 ), according to which France would annex, through inheritance, the Duchy of Lorraine.

However, with the beginning of civil war in France upon the coronation of King Robert I, Henry sought to wrest the Duchy of Lorraine from the Western Kingdom.

The island of Jersey and the other Channel Islands represent the last remnants of the medieval Duchy of Normandy that held sway in both France and England.

When Henry III and the King of France came to terms over the Duchy of Normandy, all lands except the Channel Islands recognised the suzerainty of the King of France.

Jacques Callot (; c. 1592 – 1635 ) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine ( an independent state on the North-Eastern border with France, Southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the Southern Netherlands ).

Henry married the powerful Eleanor of Aquitaine, who reigned over the Duchy of Aquitaine and had a tenuous claim to Toulouse and Auvergne in southern France, in addition to being the former wife of Louis VII of France.

Philip II of France | Phillip II's successful invasion of Duchy of Normandy | Normandy in 1204 ; blue arrows indicate the movement of Philip II's forces and light blue Philip's Breton allies

After occupation by Revolutionary France, the 1815 Treaty of Paris transformed Luxembourg into a Grand Duchy in personal union with the Netherlands.

Speaking only langue d ' oïl and langue d ' oc and spending very little time in England ( he lived in his Duchy of Aquitaine in the southwest of France, preferring to use his kingdom as a source of revenue to support his armies ), he was seen as a pious hero by his subjects.

The Normans were descended from Danish and Norwegian Vikings who were given feudal overlordship of areas in northern France — the Duchy of Normandy — in the 10th century.

In the Rhineland France successfully took the Duchy of Lorraine, and in Italy Spain regained control over the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily ( lost in the War of the Spanish Succession ), while territorial gains in northern Italy were limited despite bloody campaigning.

Throughout the spring and summer of 1733, France began building up forces along its northern and eastern frontiers, while the emperor massed troops on Polish borders, reducing garrisons in the Duchy of Milan for the purpose.

The war was fought primarily by forces supporting the unification – the Spanish loyal to Philip V, France, and the Electorate of Bavaria, together known as the Two Crowns – against those opposing unification – the so-called Grand Alliance among the Spanish loyal to Archduke Charles, the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, Portugal and the Duchy of Savoy.

* 1003: Robert II of France invades the Duchy of Burgundy, then ruled by Otto-William, Duke of Burgundy ; the initial invasion is unsuccessful, but Robert II eventually gained the acceptance of the Roman Catholic Church in 1016 and annexed Burgundy into his realm.

The Treaties of Tilsit divided Europe between France and Russia and created the Duchy of Warsaw.

Franche-Comté (; ; Free Countian: Fraintche-Comtè ; ) the former " Free County " of Burgundy, as distinct from the neighbouring Duchy, is an administrative region and a traditional province of eastern France.