History of France . The origin of the name France . King Hugh Capet, King of the Franks .King Philip August . Italian Wars . King Francois I . King Henry II . The beginning of the Renaissance . Religious wars in France . Calvinism . John Calvin . Saint Barthelemy massacre . King Henry IV . King Louis XIII . Map of new France, in the Caribbean . King Louis XIV . Versailles Palace . King Louis XV . King Louis XVI . Invention of the first hot air balloon carrying passengers discovered by French scientists . Bastille break-in during the French Revolution . Declaration of the French National Assembly . Arrest of King Louis XVI . King Louis XVI returns to Paris in preparation for trial . Execution of King Louis XVI . That same year, Marie Antoinette, the wife of King Louis XVI, was executed. . French Civil War . National Revolutionary Army . Royal Army . Napoleon Bonaparte's coup against the Republican regime . Napoleon Bonaparte crowned emperor of France . Battle of Waterloo . Napoleon's defeat . King Louis XVIII . Revolution of 1830 . Declaration of the Second Republic of France . Louis Napoleon Bonaparte's coup against Republican rule . Napoleon III crowned Emperor of France . The war between France and Prussia in 1870 . Declaration of the Third Republic of France . Tripartite Alliance . France and World War I . France's victory in World War I . France and World War II . Maginot Line fortifications . Vichy government . Charles de Gaulle . Liberation of Paris in 1944 . NATO founding . Algerian revolution against the French . Indochina revolution against the French . Protests in France in 1968 . The beginning of the intellectual and literary Renaissance in France
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