Month: January 2022

Hostilities resumed, French successes in Spain, Denain’s victory (1712), political changes in England (fall of the Whighs) and in Austria (the coming to the throne of […]

On the death of Mazarin, the young Louis XIV takes the effective direction of business; and almost immediately, French policy turns against Spain. It would […]

Fortunately, there were living forces in old Gaul, exploited and ruined by the Merovingians. According to physicscat.com, the future of the Frankish kingdom was not […]

Civil wars greatly halted the expanding force of the Frankish monarchy. Between 560 and 610 there was no lack of border wars with the Bretons, […]

Only outwardly did the vast territories that Clovis and his sons had reduced to the sovereignty of the Franks had political unity. Faced with the […]

On the death of Clovis, the eldest son Theodoric, he had the villages of the Ripuarî, the Chatti, the Chattuarî, the Alamanni, a portion of […]

The history of modern France begins in 482, when, after King Childeric died, the government of the Franks Salî of Tournai passed to the young […]

In 887, needing a king, the great French do not think of Charles the Simple, posthumous son of Ludovico il Balbo, but elect Odo count […]

It was the selfish triumph of three aristocratic groups who triumphed over imperial centralization, polarizing in different countries. The efforts of the Church against this […]

The two reigns of Pippin the Short and Charlemagne, apart from this Italian intervention which was to have grandiose developments soon, represent a gigantic effort […]

Carlo Martello after the victories over the Neustrians and the rebel Austrasians ruled Merovingian France with the title of butler. Although there were still Merovingian […]

According to internetsailors.com, the foundations of the new economic organization of the country were laid in the first two years after liberation: the nationalization of […]

While the favorable repercussions of the financial consolidation policy, initiated by the government at the end of 1938, had led, among other things, to a […]

In the middle of the Aeneolithic age, a new civilization emerged in the same region that lasted until the first period of the Bronze Age. […]

Upper Paleolithic. – The breakdown of the Upper Paleolithic shows the hunting peoples, who occupied our territories at the time, in perpetual movement. A good […]

According to franciscogardening.com, there are few countries in the world that offer such importance for prehistory as those which, washed by the Atlantic Ocean, the […]

The further we go into the century, the better we realize that the decade 1908-1915 was the highest moment of creation in the plastic arts […]

With the armistice of Compiègne (22 June) and Villa Incisa (24 June), France accepted the German and Italian occupation along a line that from the […]