FrenchHistory

FrenchHistory, 9 days ago to random

#OTD 4 June 1783 The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).

FrenchHistory, 9 days ago to random

#OTD 4 June 1694 François Quesnay was born. He is known for publishing the "Tableau économique" in 1758, which provided the foundations of the ideas of the Physiocrats. It was perhaps the first work analytical economic treatise.

FrenchHistory, 10 days ago to queer

#OTD 3 June 1906 Josephine Baker was born in St. Louis Missouri. She became involved in the Harlem Renaissance before moving to France where she became a world-famous supermodel. She served as a top-level spy in the Resistance, then a Civil Rights leader in the 1960s. #pride

FrenchHistory, 10 days ago to random

#OTD 3 June 1140 The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.

FrenchHistory, 14 days ago to random

Donald Trump has just been found guilty of 34 felony counts; the first time a president had a criminal record. France has had two presidents with criminal records (Sarkozy and Chirac). Brazil has 3. South Korea has 5. Peru has all of them.

FrenchHistory, 15 days ago to LGBTQ

#OTD 29 May 2013 Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau become the first same-sex couple to marry in Montpellier, France. #LGBTQ

FrenchHistory, 15 days ago to random

FrenchHistory, 17 days ago to random

#OTD 27 May 1940 In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.

FrenchHistory, 17 days ago to random

FrenchHistory, 23 days ago to random

#OTD 21 May 1775 Lucien Bonaparte was born. He was a politician who served as the final President of the Council of Five Hundred. A true revolutionary, he opposed Napoleon's seizure of the imperial title & went into exile rather than marry a Spanish princess.

FrenchHistory, 25 days ago to random

#OTD 19 May 1051 Henri I of France marries the Rus' princess, Anne of Kyiv. Anne had an enormous impact on the monarchy as she insisted her sons be educated. Learn about Henri I's reign in our episode https://www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/75-henri-i-the-monarchys-lowest-point/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2m-IdOwahrHCetybMsCsMj2zd7Wo6OZqPGSf3K7fYMhS3Wv3yKAD9Ty84_aem_AfuoFFOPsZVVYLYqxmfnPVsPa0VTppHeHGKrmQloo3ACEFXoTWjLoj3-hMJkGNnILqleBI25usr0cHndHZm0cASJ

FrenchHistory, 27 days ago to random

#OTD 17 May 1809 Emperor Napoleon I orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire (Map of the empire in 1812).

FrenchHistory, 28 days ago to random

#OTD 16 May 1916 The United Kingdom & the France sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria. The agreement betrayed the UK's promises to Arabs & led to contested divisions of nations in the Middle East.

FrenchHistory, 30 days ago to random

#OTD 14 May 1610 Henry IV of France is assassinated by Catholic zealot François Ravaillac, and Louis XIII ascends the throne.