History of France

France or the Old one Gaul Celtic, (to which you can arrive thanks to the existence of good flights to France) was conquered for July to Cease, incorporating it to the Roman Empire, in the century I to.C., like region conquered, had to adopt the language Latin, being transformed this in the root of the French, besides incorporating the Christian religion finally for the century V.



France came the name of the older daughter of the church for this have century, being the Franks or the first conquering germanics of the Gaul, that after the fall of the Roman empire were the first in being converted to the Christianity, as well as of them would derive the name “Francie”.

In the Middle Ages, its history found it divided into territories dominated by the Merovingians, Carolingian and Capetos.

The Merovingians (Century V- VII) being its first king Clodoveo I and who motive the transition to the orthodox Christianity, coming to form a historic link between France and the Church, to the tried Verdún in 843, when the division by the Carolingian Empire is produced (Carlo Great).



During this empire or dynasty, France is divided into Westerner, Central and Oriental, until Hugo Capeto in the 987 is crowned King of France, being produced in this dynasty the unification of the country, at the cost of several wars and inheritances, being conformed by the houses of Valois and Bourbon, arriving at the 17th century with the most important population from across europe during the reign of Luis XIV, what motive His time his influence in all the continent to cultural level.

Thus we arrive at the First French Empire (1804-1814) and to Napoleon Bonaparte, who takes the control of the Republic (1799), process that was initiated after the historic episode of it Takes of the Hem, that originated the famous Revolution francesa,(1789 and 1799), which motivated the end of the absolute monarchy and the establishment of the Republic.



Napoleon represented one of the large controversial personages of the history, since ambiguously was considered a visionaries by its gifts of intelligence and its large feats, as well as a dictator, that submerged to France in endless wars, that managed to do with the control of almost all the European Continent.

But to Napoleon arrived him their Waterloo, that motivated their fall in 1815 and the restoration of the monarchy (1830-1848)con certain changes, that would give step in the years after a new political force, conformed by the bourgeoisie and the popular mass, in the next 75 years.

In 1852 it finishes the Second French Republic, Napoleon III establishes the Second Empire, during which France develops to economic level with international agreements of commerce (free commerce with England), motivating large changes in its infrastructure, to the fall of Napoleon III in 1870 (war FrancoPrusiana), causing the birth of the Third Republic.



Between the 19th century and XX, France came occupy the world second placed as colonial empire (until 1960), being the first one for England.

France participates in the two World Wars, with lost that they damaged it for several future decades, being established after the last war, to the Quarter Republic, during which tried to recover its foreign possessions, but had large failures in the intent as in Asia, (French Indochina), Algeria in which arrived at the civil war, that finalized in 1962.

Its presidents from the eighty occupied its charges for more than a decade as the case of François Mitterrand (1981- 1995), Jacques Chirac (1995 and 2007) and to economic level France represents one of the members more modernists of the European Community, to level of the politics of security and monetary (includes the euro from 1999).