33 Terms
Contributors in French history
French history
Maximilien Robespierre
History; French history
Maximilien Robespierre was a French lawyer, politician, and one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. As a member of the Estates-General, of the Constituent ...
Maginot Line
History; French history
A line of defensive fortifications built along France's northeastern frontier from Switzerland to Luxembourg begun in 1920 as a defence against German invasion and completed in 1936.
Clemenceau
History; French history
Georges, (1841-1929). French statesman and Prime Minister from 1906 to 1909, and again during the First World War from 1917 to 1920. Clemenceau presided at the Versailles Peace talks at the end of ...
Clemenceau
History; French history
Georges, (1841-1929). French statesman and Prime Minister from 1906 to 1909, and again during the First World War from 1917 to 1920. Clemenceau presided at the Versailles Peace talks at the end of ...
Ancien Régime
History; French history
The political and social system in France before the Revolution of 1789. Under the regime, everyone was a subject of the King who claimed absolute power and society was divided into three orders: the ...
Clovis
History; French history
(465-511). King of the Franks from 481 to 511 and founder of the Merovingian dynasty. He fought against the Romans and drove them from Gaul in 486. He converted to Christianity and defeated the Arian ...
Dreyfus
History; French history
Alfred (1859-1935). French army officer of Jewish descent who was falsely accused of treason in 1894 and imprisoned. He was eventually retried and rehabilitated in 1906. The case caused a major ...
