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This page links to documents related to the nation of France. The Fifth Republic of France was established in 1958, current President is Emmanuel Macron. See also Portal:French literature.

Ancien Regime through the Fourth Republic

Diary of an embassy from King George of Bohemia to King Louis XI of France in the year of grace 1464, by Jaroslav, translated by Albert Henry Wratislaw
Portal:French Revolution
The French Declaration of War against Austria (1792)
Proclamation of the National Convention (1793)
Reflections on the Revolution in France, 18th century
Portal:Crimean War (1853-1856)
Notes on Parisian Newspapers, 1887 by Brander Matthews
Early Days of French Newspapers, 1892 by William Burnet
The Dungeons of Old Paris, 1897 by Tighe Hopkins [1]
History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, 1850s by William Francis Patrick Napier [2]
Twixt France and Spain by E. Ernest Bilbrough [3]
The Royal Family of France, 1882, by Lucien Edward Henry
Contemporary France, by Gabriel Hanotaux, translated by Author:John Charles Tarver (4 volumes) pre-1912
Greeting to American Soldiers by the women of France, 1918
French Materialism, by Karl Marx, 1926

Law

July Ordinances (1830)
Decree of recognition of the Czechoslovak Army in France (16 December 1917)

Treaties

Treaty of Concordia (23 March 1648)
Concordat of 1801
Louisiana Purchase Treaty, 1803
Treaty of the Confederation of the Rhine, 1806
Franco-Russian Alliance, 1892
Declaration between Great Britain and France with regard to the Kingdom of Siam and other matters, 1896
Entente Cordiale (1904)
Treaty respecting the Independence and Territorial Integrity of Norway, 1907
Four-Power Treaty (1921)

Fifth Republic

Constitution of the Fifth French Republic, 1958
Charles de Gaulle
Karsenty v. Enderlin-France2 (21 May 2008)
Emmanuel Macron is the current President. Author:Jean-Noel Barrot is the current Foreign Minister.

Encyclopedias

"Vichy," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
"Vichy," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 24) (1888)
"Norman French," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
"France," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
- "Paris," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
- "Vichy," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
"France," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
- Assemblies of the French Clergy • Collège de France • French Academy • French Literature • French Revolution • Martyrs of the Paris Commune • Society of Foreign Missions of Paris • Society of Mary of Paris • University of Paris
"France," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- Provinces:
  - Alsace • Aquitaine • Brittany • Burgundy • Champagne • Gascony • Languedoc • Limousin • Lorraine • Maine (province) • Normandy • Picardy • Provence • Roussillon
- Departments:
  - Ain • Aisne • Allier (department) • Alpes Maritimes • Ardennes (department) • Aube • Aude (department) • Aveyron • Basses-Alpes • Basses-Pyrénées • Calvados • Cantal • Cher • Corrèze • Corsica • Côtes-du-Nord • Côte-d'Or • Creuse • Doubs (department) • Eure • Eure-et-Loir • Finistère • Gers • Hautes Alpes • Haute-Loire • Haute-Marne • Haute-Saône • Haute-Savoie • Haute-Vienne • Ille-et-Vilaine • Isère (department) • Lot (department) • Lot-et-Garonne • Manche • Mayenne (department) • Morbihan • Nièvre • Oise (department) • Orne • Pas-de-Calais • Puy-de-Dôme • Pyrénées-Orientales • Rhône (department) • Saône-et-Loire • Sarthe • Savoie • Seine (department) • Seine-et-Marne • Seine-et-Oise • Seine-Inférieure • Somme • Tarn (department) • Tarn-et-Garonne • Vaucluse • Vaud • Vienne (department) • Vosges (France) • Yonne
- Cities:
  - Amiens • Angers • Avignon • Bayonne (France) • Béthune (France) • Bordeaux • Brest • Calais (France) • Cassel (France) • Die (France) • Dijon • Dunkirk (France) • Grenoble • Havre, Le • Lens (France) • Lille • Limoges • Nice (France) • Nîmes • Paris • Reims • St Cloud (France) • Strassburg • Toulon • Toulouse • Tours • Vichy • Vincennes (France)
- Rivers:
  - Dordogne (river) • Garonne • Loire (river) • Rhone (river) • Saône • Seine (river)
- Mountains
  - Alps • Pyrenees • Mont Blanc
- Culture:
  - French Language • French Literature • Port Royal (France)
- History:
  - French Revolution, The • French Revolutionary Wars
"France," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
- "Academy, The French," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
- "Commune of Paris," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
- "Vichy," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
"National Library of France," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
"Abbeville (France)," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
"Vichy," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
"Paris," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)
"France," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1982)
"France," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1990)
"France," in CIA World Fact Book, (ed.) by CIA (2004)

Travel

A Little Tour In France, (1884) by Henry James
A Motor-Flight Through France, (1908) by Edith Wharton

Speeches

Emancipate your colonies! presented in 1793 by Jeremy Bentham (1830)
Overtures of Peace with France, 1800
On refusal to negotiate with France, 1800
Speech presenting medal to France, 1906

Religious Freedom Reports

History

Journal and magazine articles

"Czech Soldiers in French Army" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (5) (1917)
"Fight for Auberive" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (8) (1917)
"What We Have to Contend With" by René Pichon in The Bohemian Review, 1 (9) (1917)
"The Internal Situation in France" in The New Europe, 5 (62) (20^th December, 1917)
"Paris presents a flag" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (7) (1918)

Popular Science Monthly

"The Troglodytes, or Cave-Dwellers of France" in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (April 1873)
"Time-Keeping in Paris" in Popular Science Monthly, 20 (January 1882)
"Mineral Springs of Eastern France" in Popular Science Monthly, 29 (August 1886)
"The French Institute" in Popular Science Monthly, 39 (May 1891)
"A Century of the Telegraph in France" in Popular Science Monthly, 44 (April 1894)
"Natural History in the Primary Schools of France" in Popular Science Monthly, 50 (December 1896)
"The Racial Geography of Europe: France - The Teuton and the Celt VI" in Popular Science Monthly, 51 (July 1897)
"The Racial Geography of Europe: France VII" in Popular Science Monthly, 51 (August 1897)
"The Question of Wheat: Continental Europe: France II" in Popular Science Monthly, 53 (May 1898)
"Two Gifts to French Science" in Popular Science Monthly, 54 (November 1898)
"The Earliest Writing in France" in Popular Science Monthly, 54 (February 1899)
"Tendencies in French Literature" in Popular Science Monthly, 55 (June 1899)
"Remedies for the Depopulation of France" in Popular Science Monthly, 55 (September 1899)
"The Economic Life of France" in Popular Science Monthly, 58 (January 1901)
"The French Sardine Industry" in Popular Science Monthly, 59 (October 1901)
"An Afternoon at Chelles and the Earliest Evidences of Human Industry in France" in Popular Science Monthly, 61 (May 1902)
"Some of the Localities in France and England Where Monuments of the Late Stone and Bronze Ages Have Been Found" in Popular Science Monthly, 67 (November 1905)
"The Institute of France, and Some Learned Societies of Paris" in Popular Science Monthly, 71 (November 1907)
"Impressions of Military Life in France" in Popular Science Monthly, 78 (April 1911)
"The Academy of Sciences, Paris, from 1666 to 1699 I" in Popular Science Monthly, 80 (January 1912)
"The Old Academy of Science, Paris, 1699-1793 II" in Popular Science Monthly, 80 (February 1912)
"French Geodesy" in Popular Science Monthly, 82 (February 1913)
Shooting at Jupiter, 1916 headline about France mistakenly shooting anti-aircraft guns at the light of the planet Jupiter, from Popular Science Monthly

Sources

History of France: Primary Documents