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Kingdom of France
Reaume de France (Old French)
Royaulme de France (Middle French)
Royaume de France (French)
Regnum Franciae (Latin)
987–1792
1814–1815
1815–1848
Flag of France
Royal Standard
(1643 designs)
Coat of arms (1814/15–1830) of France
Coat of arms
(1814/15–1830)
Motto: 
  • "Montjoie Saint Denis!" (French)
  • "Mountjoy Saint Denis!"
Anthem: 
  • Marche Henri IV
    ("March of Henry IV")
    (1590–1792, 1814–1830)

  • La Parisienne
    ("The Parisian")
    (1830–1848)
Royal anthem: 
  • Domine salvum fac regem (unofficial)
    ("Lord save the King")'
    (1515)
The Kingdom of France in 1000
The Kingdom of France in 1000
The Kingdom of France in 1789
The Kingdom of France in 1789
Capital
  • Paris (987–1792; 1814–1848)
  • Versailles (unofficially, 1682–1789)
Largest cityParis
Common languages
  • Latin, French (official)
  • Breton, Franco-Provençal, Occitan, Norman, Picard, Champenois, Angevin, Gallo, Burgundian, Poitevin, Basque, Alsatian
Religion
  • Roman Catholicism
Demonym(s)French
Government
  • Feudal absolute monarchy (987–1791)
  • parliamentary constitutional monarchy (1791–1792; 1814–1815; 1815–1848)[1]
Monarch 
• 987–996
Hugh Capet (first)
• 1830–1848
Louis Philippe I (last)
Prime Minister 
• 1815
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
• 1847–1848
François Guizot
Legislature
  • None (rule by decree)
    (987–1302)
  • Estates General
    (1302–1789)
  • National Assembly
    (1789–1791)
  • Legislative Assembly
    (1791–1792)
  • National Convention
    (20 September 1792)
  • Parliament
    (1814–1848)
• Upper house
  • Conservative Senate
    (1814)
  • Chamber of Peers
    (1814–1848)
• Lower house
  • Legislature
    (until 4 June 1814)
  • Chamber of Deputies
    (4 June 1814–1848)
Historical eraMedieval/Early modern
• Treaty of Verdun
c. 10 August 843
• Capetian dynasty established
3 July 987
• Hundred Years' War
1337–1453
• French Wars of Religion
1562–1598
• French Revolution
5 May 1789
• Abolition of the monarchy
21 September 1792
• Bourbon Restoration
6 April 1814
• July Revolution
2 August 1830
• July Monarchy deposed
24 February 1848
CurrencyLivre, Livre parisis, Livre tournois, Denier, Sol/Sou, Franc, Écu, Louis d'or
ISO 3166 codeFR
Location of France
Map of the first (light blue) and second (dark blue) French colonial empires.
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Kingdom of France West Francia
1792:
French First Republic
Kingdom of France
1804:
First French Empire
Kingdom of France
1815:
First French Empire (Hundred Days)
Kingdom of France
1848:
French Second Republic
Kingdom of France

The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period. It was one of the most powerful states in Europe since the High Middle Ages. It was also an early colonial power, with colonies in Asia and Africa, and the largest being New France in North America.

The Kingdom of France was descended directly from the western Frankish realm of the Carolingian Empire, which was ceded to Charles the Bald with the Treaty of Verdun (843). A branch of the Carolingian dynasty continued to rule until 987, when Hugh Capet was elected king and founded the Capetian dynasty. The territory remained known as Francia and its ruler as rex Francorum ("king of the Franks") well into the High Middle Ages. The first king calling himself rex Francie ("King of France") was Philip II, in 1190, and officially from 1204. From then, France was continuously ruled by the Capetians and their cadet lines under the Valois and Bourbon until the monarchy was abolished in 1792 during the French Revolution. The Kingdom of France was also ruled in personal union with the Kingdom of Navarre over two time periods, 1284–1328 and 1572–1620, after which the institutions of Navarre were abolished and it was fully annexed by France (though the King of France continued to use the title "King of Navarre" through the end of the monarchy).

France in the Middle Ages was a decentralised, feudal monarchy. In Brittany and Catalonia (now a part of Spain), as well as Aquitaine, the authority of the French king was barely felt. Lorraine and Burgundy were states of the Holy Roman Empire and not yet a part of France. West Frankish kings were initially elected by the secular and ecclesiastical magnates, but the regular coronation of the eldest son of the reigning king during his father's lifetime established the principle of male primogeniture, which became codified in the Salic law. During the Late Middle Ages, rivalry between the Capetian dynasty, rulers of the Kingdom of France and their vassals the House of Plantagenet, who also ruled the Kingdom of England as part of their so-called competing Angevin Empire, resulted in many armed struggles. The most notorious of them all are the series of conflicts known as the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) in which the kings of England laid claim to the French throne. Emerging victorious from said conflicts, France subsequently sought to extend its influence into Italy, but was defeated by Spain and the Holy Roman Empire in the ensuing Italian Wars (1494–1559).

France in the early modern era was increasingly centralised; the French language began to displace other languages from official use, and the monarch expanded his absolute power in an administrative system, known as the Ancien Régime, complicated by historic and regional irregularities in taxation, legal, judicial, and ecclesiastic divisions, and local prerogatives. Religiously, France became divided between the Catholic majority and a Protestant minority, the Huguenots, which led to a series of civil wars, the Wars of Religion (1562–1598). The Wars of Religion crippled France, but triumph over Spain and the Habsburg monarchy in the Thirty Years' War made France the most powerful nation on the continent once more. The kingdom became Europe's dominant cultural, political and military power in the 17th century under Louis XIV. Throughout the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, France was Europe's richest, largest, most populous, powerful and influential country.[2] In parallel, France developed its first colonial empire in Asia, Africa, and in the Americas.

In the 16th to the 17th centuries, the First French colonial empire stretched from a total area at its peak in 1680 to over 10,000,000 square kilometres (3,900,000 sq mi), the second-largest empire in the world at the time behind the Spanish Empire. Colonial conflicts with Great Britain led to the loss of much of its North American holdings by 1763. French intervention in the American Revolutionary War helped the United States secure independence from King George III and the Kingdom of Great Britain, but was costly and achieved little for France.

France through its French colonial empire, became a superpower from 1643 until 1815;[3][4] from the reign of King Louis XIV until the defeat of Napoleon in the Napoleonic Wars.[5] The Spanish Empire lost its superpower status to France after the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees (but maintained the status of Great Power until the Napoleonic Wars and the Independence of Spanish America). France lost its superpower status after Napoleon's defeat against the British in 1815.[6]

Following the French Revolution, which began in 1789, the Kingdom of France adopted a written constitution in 1791, but the Kingdom was abolished a year later and replaced with the First French Republic. The monarchy was restored by the other great powers in 1814 and, with the exception of the Hundred Days in 1815, lasted until the French Revolution of 1848.

  1. ^ Gallie, Duncan (January 26, 1984). Social Inequality and Class Radicalism in France and Britain. CUP Archive. ISBN 9780521257640 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ R.R. Palmer; Joel Colton (1978). A History of the Modern World (5th ed.). p. 161.
  3. ^ Aldrich, Robert (1996). Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion. p. 304.
  4. ^ Page, Melvin E., ed. (2003). Colonialism: An International Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 218. ISBN 9781576073353 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Englund, Steven (2005). Napoleon: A Political Life. Harvard University Press. p. 254.
  6. ^ Englund, Steven (2005). Napoleon: A Political Life. Harvard University Press. p. 254.

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