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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.

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

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 ...