Bourbon France

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Bourbon France was the French kingdom ruled by the Bourbon dynasty from the late 16th century until the French Revolution, characterized by strong centralized monarchy and major roles in European conflicts.

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Label Occurrences
Bourbon France canonical 3
French Bourbons 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French kingdom
historical period
administrativeReform intendant system
capital Paris
characteristic absolutism
court culture centered at Versailles
divine right of kings ideology
colonialEmpire French colonial empire
surface form: French colonial empire in Africa

French colonial empire
surface form: French colonial empire in Asia

French colonial empire
surface form: French colonial empire in the Americas
continent Europe
country Kingdom of France
culturalMovement French classicism
surface form: French Classicism

French Enlightenment
currency livre tournois
demiseReason French Revolution and abolition of monarchy in 1792
economicPolicy Colbert
surface form: Colbertism

mercantilism
endTime 1792
followedBy French First Republic
surface form: First French Republic
foreignPolicyGoal containment of Habsburg powers
hegemony in continental Europe
governmentForm absolute monarchy
involvedInConflict American Revolutionary War
Franco-Dutch War
Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659)
French Wars of Religion
Nine Years' War
Seven Years' War
Thirty Years' War
War of Devolution
War of the Austrian Succession
War of the Polish Succession
War of the Reunions
War of the Spanish Succession
involvedInEvent French Revolution
Fronde
Edict of Fontainebleau
surface form: Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
legalSystem royal ordinances and customary law
monarch Henry IV of France
King Louis XIII
surface form: Louis XIII of France

Louis XIV of France
Louis XV of France
Louis XVI of France
nobleEstate First Estate
Second Estate
Third Estate
notableColony Louisiana Territory
surface form: Louisiana (New France)

New France
French colony of Saint-Domingue
surface form: Saint-Domingue
notableCulturalFigure Jean Racine
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Molière
Montesquieu
Voltaire
notableMinister Cardinal de Fleury
surface form: André-Hercule de Fleury

Cardinal Mazarin
Cardinal Richelieu
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
officialLanguage French
parliamentaryBody Parlement of Paris
politicalSystem centralized monarchy
precededBy Valois
surface form: Valois France
religion Roman Catholicism
representativeAssembly Estates-General of 1614
Estates-General of 1789
royalResidence Louvre Palace
Château de Versailles
surface form: Palace of Versailles

Tuileries Palace
rulingDynasty House of Bourbon
socialStructure Ancien Régime
surface form: Ancien Régime estates system
startTime 1589
taxSystem capitation tax
gabelle
taille
vingtième

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Battle of Vélez-Málaga combatantSide Bourbon France
Duke of Berwick titleHolderSide Bourbon France
Neapolitan Bourbons relatedBranch Bourbon France
this entity surface form: French Bourbons