Kingdom of France

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former sovereign state kingdom monarchy

The Kingdom of France was a major European monarchy that emerged as a powerful centralized state, playing a decisive role in continental politics, culture, and religion from the Middle Ages through the early modern period.

Aliases (7)

France ×1
France under Henry IV ×1
Kingdom of France (Ancien Régime) ×1
Kingdom of France (Bourbon Restoration) ×1
Kingdom of France (later career) ×1
Kingdom of France (nominally) ×1
Kingdom of West Francia ×1

Statements (73)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former sovereign state → kingdom → monarchy →
abolished	1792 →
alliedWith	American colonies →
capital	Paris →
colonialPower	yes →
colonialTerritory	French India → French West Africa (early holdings) → New France → Saint-Domingue →
continent	Europe →
culturalInfluence	French language spread in Europe → development of French classical literature → patronage of arts and architecture →
currency	franc → livre tournois →
dissolutionEvent	French Revolution →
dynasticReligion	Catholic Church →
established	843 →
establishedBy	Treaty of Verdun →
firstMonarch	Charles II the Bald →
flag	royal banner with fleur-de-lis →
governmentType	absolute monarchy → feudal monarchy →
lastMonarch	Louis XVI of France →
legalSystem	Roman law influence →
majorCity	Bordeaux → Lyon → Marseille →
motto	Montjoie Saint Denis →
notableEvent	Edict of Nantes → Revocation of the Edict of Nantes → St. Bartholomew's Day massacre →
notableInstitution	Estates-General of France → Parlement of Paris →
notableMonarch	Francis I of France → Henry IV of France NERFINISHED → Hugh Capet → Louis IX of France → Louis XIII of France NERFINISHED → Louis XIV of France → Louis XV of France → Louis XVI of France → Philip II of France NERFINISHED →
officialLanguage	French →
participatedIn	American Revolutionary War → Hundred Years' War → Italian Wars → Seven Years' War → Thirty Years' War → War of the Spanish Succession → Wars of Religion (France) →
politicalSystem	estates-based society →
predecessor	Carolingian Empire → West Francia →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
rival	Habsburg Monarchy → Holy Roman Empire → Kingdom of England → Kingdom of Great Britain →
royalHouse	House of Bourbon → House of Capet → House of Valois →
socialClass	Third Estate → clergy → nobility →
successor	French First Republic →
territoryIncludes	Brittany → Burgundy → Languedoc NERFINISHED → Normandy → Île-de-France →

Referenced by (showing first 500 of 602)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Abraham de Moivre → Adrienne de Noailles → Alexandre de Beauharnais → Ange-Jacques Gabriel → Angélique Diderot → Anne Hilarion de Tourville → Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot → Antoine Lavoisier → Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac → Aramis → Armand de Bourbon, Prince de Conti → Balthasar Gérard → Bayard (Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard) → Blanche of Valois → Camille Desmoulins → Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard → Cardinal Mazarin → Cardinal Richelieu → Cardinal de Bernis → Catherine de’ Medici → Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes → Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billarderie → Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu → Claude Louis Hector de Villars → Conrad Alexandre Gérard → Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut → Denis Diderot → Duke of Choiseul → Edmé Bouchardon → Eleanor of Aquitaine → Elisabeth of France → Elisabeth of Valois → Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons → Francis I of France → François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi → Françoise Marie de Bourbon → Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon → Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon → Helvétius → Henrietta Maria of France → Henry I, Duke of Guise → Henry IV of France → Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau → Hubert Robert → Isabella of Angoulême → Isabella of France → Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples → Jacques Marquette → Jean Le Nôtre → Jean de Bilhères → Jean-Baptiste Colbert → Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau → Jean-Baptiste Lully → Joan of Arc → Joseph Vernet → Joseph-Gaspard Tascher de La Pagerie → Jules Hardouin-Mansart → Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse → Louis François, duc de Boufflers → Louis VIII of France → Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Duke of Maine → Louise de La Vallière → Madame de Montespan → Madame de Pompadour → Madeleine of Valois → Margaret of France → Marie de Coucy → Marquis de Lafayette → Marshal Boufflers → Marshal Catinat → Marshal Tallard → Marshal de Contades → Martin-Dauch → Mary of Guise → Médard des Groseilliers → Nicolas Fouquet → Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve → Philip II of France → Philippe II, Duke of Orléans → Pierre de Fermat → Pope Urban II → Robert de Sorbon → Saint Vincent de Paul → Samuel de Champlain → Émilie du Châtelet → Étienne-Maurice Falconet →	countryOfCitizenship
Académie royale de musique → Affair of the Placards → Albigensian Crusade → Ancien Régime → Avignon Papacy → Bastille → Bishopric of Arras → Bishopric of Thérouanne → Charles VII of France → Charles VIII of France → Code Louis → Colloquy of Poissy → Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand at La Flèche → County of Artois → County of Roussillon → Day of the Barricades → Duchy of Bourbon → Duchy of Orléans → Duke of Burgundy → Duke of Gascony → Duke of Richelieu → Edict of Nantes → Estates-General of 1789 → First Council of Lyon → Flight to Varennes → Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit → French Capetian forces → French Crown → French East India Company → French Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment → French invasion of the Rhineland → Fronde → Grand Master of the Navigation and Commerce of France → House of Chalon-Arlay → House of Guise → House of Poitiers → House of Valois → Hubert de Brienne, Comte de Conflans → Hubert de Brienne, Comte de Conflans → Huguenot rebellions → Jacquerie → Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran → Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran → Kings of France → Louis IX of France → Louis XII of France → Louis de Bourbon, Count of Vermandois → Louis, Grand Dauphin → Maison du Roi → Man in the Iron Mask → Massacre of Vassy → Musketeers of the Guard → New France → Noyon, Picardy, Kingdom of France → Philippe I, Duke of Orléans → Revocation of the Edict of Nantes → Salon of 1787 → Seigneur de la Sablière → Société Notre-Dame de Montréal → St. Bartholomew's Day massacre → Storming of the Bastille → Trudaine family → War of the Three Henrys → Women’s March on Versailles → pontificate of Clement VI → École royale du génie de Mézières →	country
Albigensian Crusade → Atlantic campaign of the American Revolutionary War → Battle of Bergen → Battle of Blenheim → Battle of Chandannagar → Battle of Crécy → Battle of Dettingen → Battle of Fleurus (1690) → Battle of Fontenoy → Battle of Fort Ticonderoga (French and Indian War) → Battle of Kloster Kampen → Battle of Krefeld → Battle of La Hogue (1692) → Battle of Lagos → Battle of Landen (Neerwinden) (1693) → Battle of Lauffeld → Battle of Malplaquet → Battle of Malplaquet → Battle of Marsaglia (1693) → Battle of Minden → Battle of Minorca (1756) → Battle of Oudenarde → Battle of Quiberon Bay → Battle of Ramillies → Battle of Rheinberg → Battle of Rocoux → Battle of Rossbach → Battle of Sainte-Foy → Battle of Seneffe → Battle of Sluys → Battle of Solebay → Battle of St. Quentin (1557) → Battle of Steinkirk (1692) → Brest blockade → First War of Scottish Independence → Franco-Spanish War (1595–1598) ("France under Henry IV") → French invasion of the Rhineland → King George's War → Siege of Louisbourg (1745) → Siege of Namur (1692) → Siege of Port Royal (1710) → Siege of Tournai (1667) → Siege of Yorktown → Storming of Redoubt 9 → Third Crusade → Third Silesian War → Treaty of Ryswick → War of the League of Cognac → War of the Reunions → siege of Maastricht (1673) →	belligerent
Antoine Watteau → Bayard (Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard) → Bertrand Barère → Cardinal Richelieu → Charles IX of France → Charles VII of France → Charles VIII of France → Claude Nicolas Ledoux → Edward IV of England → Elisabeth of Valois → Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès → Eugene Francis of Savoy → Francis I of France → Francis II of France → François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi → Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon → Gersonides → Henri de Saint-Simon → Henry II of England → Henry II of France → Henry III of France → Isabella of France → Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau → John of Gaunt → Jérôme Bonaparte → Louis Desaix → Louis Dieudonné → Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé → Louis IX of France → Louis XI of France → Louis XII of France → Madeleine of Valois → Margaret of France → Mary of Guise → Nicolas Poussin → Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve → Pope Urban II → Rashi → Robert Estienne → Santiago de Liniers → Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban →	birthPlace
Anne of Austria → Antoine Watteau → Cardinal Mazarin → Cardinal Richelieu → Carle Van Loo → Catherine de’ Medici → Charles IX of France → Charles VII of France → Charles VIII of France → Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès → Francis I of France → Francis II of France → François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi → Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon → Henry II of England → Henry II of France → Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau → Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville → Leonardo da Vinci → Louis Dieudonné → Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé → Louis XI of France → Louis XII of France → Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve → René of Chalon → Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban →	deathPlace
Aimable Pélissier → Anne Hilarion de Tourville → Bayard (Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard) → Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard → Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle → Claude Louis Hector de Villars → Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut → François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi → François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers → Henri de la Tour d’Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne → Jacques François Dugommier → James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick → Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran → Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran → Lafayette → Louis François, duc de Boufflers → Marquis de Lafayette → Marshal Catinat → Marshal Tallard → Marshal de Contades → Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville → Redoutable → Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban → Thomas-Alexandre Dumas →	allegiance
Charles X of France → Eleanor of Provence → Eleonore d’Esmier d’Olbreuse → Elisabeth of France → Eugène de Beauharnais → Gaspard II de Coligny → Henrietta Maria of France → Louis XV of France → Louis XVI of France → Louis de Bourbon, Count of Vermandois → Marie Thérèse of France → Marshal Catinat → Philippa of Hainault → Samuel de Champlain → Theodore Beza →	birthCountry
Battle of Beachy Head (1690) → Battle of Lagos (1693) → Battle of Solebay → Battle of Texel (1673) → Battle of Wilhelmsthal → Battle of the Chesapeake → Greek War of Independence → Renversement des alliances → Return of Franche-Comté to Spain → Siege of Lille (1667) →	countryInvolved
Annus Mirabilis of 1759 → British campaign against New France → Cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Austria → Franco-Spanish War (1595–1598) → Imperial Army → Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick → Prince of Waldeck → Prospero Colonna → Spanish conquest of Florida → siege of Grave (1674) →	opponent
Alsace-Lorraine → Bourbonnais → Count of Anjou → Duchy of Anjou → Duchy of Bourbon → Duchy of Burgundy → Duke of Brittany → Lordship of Montpellier → historical province of Champagne →	partOf
European wars of religion → Franco-Spanish War (1595–1598) → Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659) → French invasion of northern Spain (1719) → French invasion of the Rhineland → Siege of Tournai (1709) → Treaty of Utrecht (between France and Savoy) → War of the Quadruple Alliance →	hasParticipant
Anne Hilarion de Tourville → Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot → Antoine Galland → Antoine Laurent de Jussieu → Antoine Lavoisier → Antoine-Jean Gros → Balthasar Gérard →	placeOfBirth
André Le Nôtre → Carlo Buonaparte → James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick → Jehan Cauvin → Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis → Samuel ibn Tibbon →	citizenship
Book I (The Social Contract) → Book III (The Social Contract) → Charlotte of Bourbon → Chronicles of Jean Froissart → De ente et essentia → The Social Contract →	countryOfOrigin
Anglo-French wars of the 12th and 13th centuries → Habsburg–Valois conflict → Hundred Years' War → Italian War of 1542–1546 → King William's War →	conflictBetween
Gaspard II de Coligny → Henrietta Maria of France → Louis XV of France → Marie Thérèse of France → Marshal Catinat →	deathCountry
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac → Giovanni da Verrazzano → Marshal Boufflers → Nicolas Fouquet → Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban →	employer
Congress of Vienna → Italian Wars → London Conference of 1830–1831 → Siege of Douai (1667) → War of the Jülich Succession →	participant
Antoine Barnave → Georges Danton → James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick → Jeanne d’Albret →	countryOfBirth
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) → Treaty of Dover (1670) → Treaty of London (1718) → Treaty of The Hague (1720) →	countrySignatory
Church of the English Benedictines, Paris → Cirey, Kingdom of France → House of Baux → University of Bourges →	locatedIn
July Revolution in France → Siege of La Rochelle (1572–1573) → St. Bartholomew's Day massacre → relief of Rouen (1592) →	location
House of Savoy → Palaiologos dynasty → Republic of Florence →	alliedWith
Comtat Venaissin → Corsican Republic → Duchy of Lorraine →	annexedBy
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture → Legislative Assembly → Treaties of the Kingdom of France →	appliesToJurisdiction
Battle of Agincourt → Battle of Crécy → Battle of Quebec (1759) →	countryAtTime
Corsican Republic → Duchy of Lorraine → First French Empire ("Kingdom of France (Bourbon Restoration)") →	followedBy
Bishopric of Thérouanne → Bourbon coat of arms →	associatedWith
Principality of Catalonia → United Kingdom of the Netherlands →	borderedBy
Duchy of Milan → Maine (historical province) →	contestedBy
Avignon Papacy → pontificate of Clement V →	countryOfResidence
Louis XIII of France → Louis XV of France →	countryRuled
Aragonese Crusade → War of the Sicilian Vespers →	hasMainBelligerent
Holy Alliance ("Kingdom of France (nominally)") → League of Cambrai →	hasMember
Bourbon realms → Carolingian dynasty ("Kingdom of West Francia") →	hasPart
Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard → Franco-Spanish War (1595–1598) →	historicalRegion
Maine (historical province) → Poitou →	historicalRegionOf
British–Native American wars → Silesian Wars →	involved
French conquest of Algeria → Thirty Years' War →	mainBelligerent
Battle of Marsaglia (1693) → Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy →	opponentOf
Allied army under Marlborough and Eugene → League of Augsburg →	opposedBy
André Le Breton → Michel-Antoine David →	placeOfActivity
Treaty of Vienna (1689) →	aimedAgainst
David II of Scotland →	ally
Treaty of Utrecht (between France and Savoy) →	appliesToTerritory
Isabella of England, Lady de Coucy →	areaOfActivity
Courtrai →	battleOpponents
Eleanor of Aquitaine →	birthRealm
Bishopric of Thérouanne →	borderDioceseWith
Fort du Portalet →	builtBy
Historic Fortified City of Briançon →	builtFor
Ohio Country →	claimedBy
French colony of Saint-Domingue →	colonialPower
Acadia →	colonizedBy
French Caribbean →	colonizingPower
Battle of the Plains of Abraham →	combatant
Concert of Europe →	coreMember
Battle of St. Quentin (1557) →	countryAtLocation
Malplaquet →	countryDuringEvent
Henrietta of England →	countryOfDeath
Battle of Quiberon Bay →	countryOfDefeatedSide
League of Cambrai →	countryOfFormation
Papal States →	diplomaticRelation
Corsican Republic →	enemy
Dutch navy of the Republic →	engagedInConflictWith
David II of Scotland →	exileLocation
French First Republic ("Kingdom of France (Ancien Régime)") →	followed
Yaroslav the Wise →	foreignRelations
War of the Two Peters →	hasBelligerent
Aragonese Crusade →	hasLocation
Capetian dynasty →	hasMainTerritory
War of Devolution ("France") →	hasOpposingForce
Greek War of Independence →	hasSupportingBelligerent
Douai →	historicalAffiliation
Franche-Comté →	historicalAllegiance
Latin West →	includesRegion
Williamite War in Ireland →	involvedForeignPower
Western Schism →	involves
Duke of Richelieu →	jurisdiction
National Constituent Assembly →	legislativeBodyFor
Legislative Assembly (France) →	legislativeBodyOf
Bishopric of Arras →	linkedTo
Collège des Jésuites de Langres →	locatedInTime
Treaty of Paris (1783) →	locationCountry
European colonization of the Americas →	mainParticipant
Treaty of Nymphenburg (1741) →	mainParty
Gallicanism →	mainRegion
Quadruple Alliance (1718) →	memberState
Maria Theresa of Spain →	monarchConsortOf
Louis VIII of France →	monarchOf
Duchy of Burgundy →	neighboringEntity
Académie royale d’architecture →	operatedInPoliticalEntity
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor →	opponentInWarOfTheSpanishSuccession
Holy League against France →	opposedTo
County of Barcelona →	overlord
pontificate of Gregory XI →	papalCoronationCountry
Treaty of Breda (1667) →	party