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French lives, places, and movements.
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NapoleonFrench general and emperor (1769–1821)
RembrandtDutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669)
Pablo PicassoSpanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
René DescartesFrench philosopher and mathematician (1596–1650)- FranceCountry primarily in Western Europe
VoltaireFrench writer and philosopher (1694–1778)
Antoine LavoisierFrench nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
Louis PasteurFrench chemist, pharmacist and microbiologist (1822–1895)
Marie CuriePolish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)- PParisCapital and largest city of France
Sarah BernhardtFrench stage actress (1844–1923)- Marius PetipaFrench-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (1818–1910)
Josephine BakerAmerican and French entertainer (1906–1975)
Hans Holbein the YoungerGerman artist and printmaker (1497–1543)
Nicolas PoussinFrench Baroque painter (1594–1665)
Johannes VermeerDutch painter (1632–1675)
Jacques-Louis DavidFrench painter (1748–1825)
Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresFrench painter (1780–1867)
Eugène DelacroixFrench painter (1798–1863)
Gustave CourbetFrench realist painter (1819–1877)
Camille PissarroDanish-French painter (1830–1903)
Édouard ManetFrench painter (1832–1883)
Edgar DegasFrench Impressionist artist (1834–1917)
Paul CézanneFrench painter (1839–1906)
Claude MonetFrench painter (1840–1926)
Pierre-Auguste RenoirFrench painter and sculptor (1841–1919)
Henri RousseauFrench painter (1844–1910)
Paul GauguinFrench artist (1848–1903)
Georges SeuratFrench painter (1859–1891)
Henri de Toulouse-LautrecFrench painter and illustrator (1864–1901)
Wassily KandinskyRussian painter and art theorist (1866–1944)
Henri MatisseFrench artist (1869–1954)
Max ErnstGerman artist (1891–1976)
Auguste RodinFrench sculptor (1840–1917)
Constantin BrâncușiRomanian sculptor, photographer and painter (1876–1957)
Marcel DuchampFrench painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)
Alberto GiacomettiSwiss sculptor and painter (1901–1966)
Le CorbusierSwiss-French architect (1887–1965)
Coco ChanelFrench fashion designer (1883–1971)
Sergei Prokudin-GorskiiRussian chemist and photographer (1863–1944)
Georges-Eugène HaussmannFrench official who renovated Paris (1809–1891)- FFrench
Cubism20th-century avant-garde art movement
November 2015 Paris attacks2015 Islamist terror attacks in France- GGothic artStyle of medieval art
SymbolismLate 19th-century art movement in Europe
2016 Nice attackIslamist terrorist attack in France- Charlie Hebdo shooting2015 terrorist attack in Paris, France
Normandy landingsWorld War II landing operation in Europe
Battle of VerdunBattle on the Western Front during the First World War- AArt Deco20th-century architectural and art style
- Battle of the SommeWWI battle pitting France and Britain against Germany
Battle of Tours732 battle of the Umayyad invasion of Gaul
Yellow vests movement2018 social movement started in France- GGermanwings Flight 95252015 deliberate aircraft crash in France
2019 fire at Notre-Dame de Paris2019 church fire in Paris, France- CatalansEthnic group
First Battle of the MarneFirst major battle of World War I, 1914
BretonsCeltic ethnic group- House of BonaparteFrench imperial dynasty
Dunkirk evacuationEvacuation of Allied forces in early 1940
Albigensian Crusade13th-century crusade against Catharism in southern France
Battle of Poitiers1356 battle of the Hundred Years' War
Battle of Dunkirk1940 battle between the Allies and Germany in France
Battle of Crécy1346 English victory during the Hundred Years' War
Battle of AlesiaPart of the Gallic Wars
Battle of Sedan1870 battle during the Franco-Prussian War
Liberation of ParisMilitary battle during World War II on 19 August 1944
Dieppe RaidWorld War II battle on north coast of France
Battle of Cambrai1917 World War I battle
Murder of Samuel Paty2020 murder in Éragny-sur-Oise, France
Battle of Valmy1792 battle during the War of the First Coalition- FrancophonieFrench-speaking world
- KanakIndigenous people of New Caledonia
PurismFrench art movement
2018 Strasbourg attackTerrorist attack in Strasbourg, France
Second Battle of the Marne1918 battle in the Western Front of World War I
Attack on Mers-El-Kebir1940 British attack on the French Navy
Battle of Castillon1453 battle between France and England
Battle of Malplaquet1709 Spanish Succession War battle
Battle of Vimy RidgeWorld War I battle (April 1917)- Falaise PocketEngagement of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War
Massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane642 civilians massacred by a German Waffen-SS company in 1944
Battle of the Scheldt1944 operations to open Antwerp to Allied shipping during WW2- TToulouse and Montauban shootingsSeries of Islamist terrorist attacks
Battle of Patay1429 battle during the Hundred Years' War- Battle of ArausioBattle during the Cimbrian War (105 BC)
Battle of AmiensFirst World War allied offensive operation
French RenaissanceFrench cultural and artistic movement- Operation NordwindGerman military offensive
Battle of ParisPart of the War of the Sixth Coalition
2020 Nice attackStabbing attack in France
Massacre of Vassy1562 killing of Huguenots in Wassy, France- BBattle of StrasbourgBattle fought in AD 357
- Battle of ArrasBritish offensive during the First World War
Siege of ParisPart of the Franco-Prussian War- BBattle for CaenBattle during the Normandy campaign
Battle of Formigny1450 battle of the Hundred Years' War
2023 French pension reform strikes2023 civil unrest in France
Case Anton1942 occupation of France in WWII
Battle of Villers-Bocage1944 battle in occupied France
Battle of AurayPart of the War of the Breton Succession (1364)
Champ de Mars Massacre1791 massacre in Paris
Great Plague of MarseilleBubonic plague outbreak in France
2016 Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray church attackTerrorist attack in July 2016 in France- Sétif and Guelma massacre1945 mass murder of Muslims in French Algeria
Battle of Gravelotte1870 battle of the Franco-Prussian War
Battle of Aquae SextiaeBattle during the Cimbrian War (102 BC)