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  1. 10 hours ago · Richard Ier 2 dit Cœur de Lion ( 8 septembre 1157 3, palais de Beaumont à Oxford – 6 avril 1199, château de Châlus-Chabrol) est roi d'Angleterre, duc de Normandie, duc d'Aquitaine, comte de Poitiers, comte du Maine et comte d'Anjou de 1189 à sa mort en 1199 . Fils d’ Henri II et d’ Aliénor d'Aquitaine, élevé en Angleterre et en ...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Papal_StatesPapal States - Wikipedia

    10 hours ago · Following the fall of the First French Empire in 1814, the Congress of Vienna formally restored the Italian territories of the Papal States, but not the Comtat Venaissin or Avignon, to Vatican control.

  3. 10 hours ago · Germaine Haye. Germaine Haye (née Germain; 10 October 1888 – 18 April 2002) was France's oldest living person for about a year, following the death of 115-year-old Marie Brémont on 6 June 2001 until her own death at age 113 years and 190 days. [164] At the time of her death, she was the oldest living person in Europe and fourth oldest in ...

  4. 10 hours ago · In 1917 Siam declared war on German Empire and Austria-Hungary, mainly to gain favour with the British and the French. Siam's token participation in World War I secured it a seat at the Versailles Peace Conference , and Foreign Minister Devawongse used this opportunity to argue for the repeal of the 19th-century unequal treaties and the restoration of full Siamese sovereignty.

  5. 2 hours ago · The parliamentary election sent French voters to the polls to choose their local representatives for France's National Assembly. Candidates had to win more than 50 per cent of votes to be declared ...

  6. 10 hours ago · The French secretly supplied the Americans with money, gunpowder, and munitions to weaken Great Britain; the subsidies continued when France entered the war in 1778, and the French government and Paris bankers lent large sums [quantify] to the American war effort. The Americans struggled to pay off the loans; they ceased making interest payments to France in 1785 and defaulted on installments due in 1787.

  7. 10 hours ago · The French Colonial Empire. The French colonial empire was one of the largest and most influential in history. It spanned the globe, from Africa to Southeast Asia. The empire's colonies provided France with valuable resources and markets, but also led to widespread repression and exploitation. The Second French Empire