French Crown

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The French Crown was the monarchical authority of France, encompassing the kings and their centralized state power prior to the French Revolution.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
French Crown canonical 37
French crown 19
Crown of France 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (68)

Predicate Object
instanceOf monarchy
sovereign state authority
appliesToTerritory France
centralizedPowerUnder Cardinal Mazarin
Cardinal Richelieu
Louis XIV of France
claimedAuthorityOver French colonial empire
collected royal taxes
country Kingdom of France
endedWithEvent French Revolution
engagedIn Hundred Years' War
Italian Wars
Seven Years' War
War of the Spanish Succession
French Wars of Religion
surface form: Wars of Religion in France
exercisedBy Kings of France
surface form: King of France
exercisedPowerOver French clergy
French nobility
Third Estate
existedDuring Early modern period
Middle Ages
hadChiefMinister Cardinal Mazarin
Cardinal Richelieu
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
hadEconomicPolicy mercantilism
hadSuccessionLaw male-preference agnatic succession
hasCapital Paris
hasFormOfGovernment absolute monarchy
feudal monarchy
hereditary monarchy
hasInstitution Chancery of France
Estates-General of 1789
surface form: Estates-General of France

Parlement of Paris
Parlement of Paris
surface form: Parlements

Royal Council of France
intendants
royal army
royal bureaucracy
Royal Navy
surface form: royal navy

royal treasury
hasLanguage French
hasLegalDoctrine Salic law
continuity of the Crown
inalienability of the Crown
indivisibility of the Crown
hasNotableRuler Francis I of France
Henry IV of France
Louis IX of France
King Louis XIII
surface form: Louis XIII of France

Louis XIV of France
Louis XV of France
Louis XVI of France
hasReligion Roman Catholicism
hasRuler Capetian dynasty
House of Bourbon
House of Valois
legitimizedBy coronation at Reims Cathedral
divine right of kings
lostAuthorityInYear 1789
lostDeJureStatusWith abolition of monarchy in France
maintained standing army
seatOfCoronation Reims
supported American Revolutionary War
symbolizedBy French royal coat of arms
French royal crown
fleur-de-lis
usedTitle King of France and Navarre
Most Christian King

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Henry Tudor’s forces supportedBy French Crown
this entity surface form: French crown
Guyenne wasPossessionOf French Crown
Château de Marly ownedBy French Crown
Jacques Lemercier employer French Crown
Château de Saint-Cloud, France ownedBy French Crown
subject surface form: Château de Saint-Cloud
this entity surface form: French crown
Landsknechte employedBy French Crown
this entity surface form: French crown
Views of the Ports of France commissionedBy French Crown
this entity surface form: French crown