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Maastricht Treaty: Members of the European Community (including France) signed a treaty creating what is now known as the European Union. 1995: 17 May: Jacques Chirac began his term as president of France. 1998: 12 July: France won the 1998 World Cup of football on home soil. This was their first FIFA World Cup title. 31 December
Today, France, with a population of 62.5 million, or 65 million including overseas territories, is the third most populous country of Europe, behind Russia and Germany. Immigration in the 20th century differed significantly from that of the previous century. The 1920s saw great influxes from Italy and Poland; in the 1930-50s immigrants came ...
The first written records for the history of France appeared in the Iron Age. What is now France made up the bulk of the region known to the Romans as Gaul. Greek writers noted the presence of three main ethno-linguistic groups in the area: the Gauls, Aquitani and Belgae. The Gauls, the largest group, were Celtic people speaking Gaulish.
The Louvre was the Parisian accommodation of the Emperors who came to visit France: Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor stayed there in early 1378;: 11 Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos from June 1400 to November 1402, using it as his base for several trips across Europe; Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor in March and April 1416; and Charles V ...
France, [ a] officially the French Republic, [ b] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, [ X] giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period. It was one of the most powerful states in Europe since the High Middle Ages. It was also an early colonial power, with colonies in Asia and Africa, and the largest being New France in North ...
Besting all expectations, France’s leftist coalition pulled off an upset victory over the populist National Rally that quelled, for now, fears of a far-right takeover in a nation with a long ...
French Fifth Republic 1958–present. The oldest traces of human occupation in Paris are human bones and evidence of an encampment of hunter-gatherers dating from about 8000 BC, during the Mesolithic period. [1] Between 250 and 225 BC, the Parisii, a sub-tribe of the Celtic Senones, settled on the banks of the Seine, built bridges and a fort ...