History of France

History 

France is one of the oldest states of Europe, but only appears with the name from the Middle Ages in a difficult precise date irrefutably. Fully Gaul is recognized as a historical antecedent of France, although the Galia occupied a slightly more extensive than present France European area.
In the European hegemonic wars France attempted to impose several times and at different times it was faced with almost all of Europe (for separadoo, or together as a counterbalance to French expansionism). So it was with Charlemagne (Charles I, "The Great") in the ninth century, Louis XIV ("The Sun King") in the seventeenth century, and Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon "The Great") in the nineteenth century.

What it is now France, before it was known by the name Galia.2 Gaul was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people of Indo-European origin. Its borders were partially established on the north by the current Channel, to the west by the Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean), on the south by the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean Sea, and on the east by the Rhine (that separated him from the Germania) and the Alps mountains (that separated him from Italy).

Middle Ages

After the end of the Middle Ages, France undergoes its consolidation as a nation. The French Wars of Religion dominate the life of the country since the sixteenth century pacificándose internally with the Edict of Nantes (outer peace will not come until the first half of the seventeenth, when the Peace of Westphalia is held).

French Revolution

It was a social and political process that took place between 1789 and 1799 whose main consequences were the abolition of absolute monarchy and the proclamation of the Republic, eliminating the economic and social foundations of the old regime. While the political organization of France oscillated between republic, empire and monarchy during 75 years after First Republic fell after the coup of Napoleon, the fact is that the revolution marked the definitive end of absolutism and gave birth to a new regime where citizens, and sometimes the popular masses, became the dominant political force in the country

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