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Iron Age: Gauls, a Celtic people.
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51 BC – 486 AD: part of Roman empire.
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486: Germanic Franks
Kingdom of
France.
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Late Middle Ages: Hundred Years' War
(1337 to 1453)
major European
power.
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Renaissance
flourishing of French
culture & global colonial empire
20th
century: 2
nd
largest in the world.
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16th century religious civil wars between
Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots).
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Louis XIV: Europe's dominant
cultural, political, and military power.
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1789: French Revolution
one of
modern history's earliest republics
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of
the Citizen.
France
(
French Republic
)