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Former countries in French history

  • Vichy FranceOn the 10th of July 1940, a joint session of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies gathered in the quiet spa town of Vichy.
  • Kingdom of FranceThe Treaty of Verdun in 843 divided the Carolingian Empire into three parts, leaving Charles the Bald to rule West Francia.
  • French First RepublicMobs of Parisians broke into the city's prisons during the first week of September 1792. They killed over half of the prisoners, including nobles and…
  • First French EmpireOn the 2nd of December 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte stood inside Notre-Dame de Paris to receive his imperial crown. Pope Pius VII had traveled from Rome to…
  • Gallia NarbonensisThe Roman province known as Gallia Narbonensis stretched from the Pyrenees Mountains on the west to the Alps on the east.