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3 days ago · What were the Huguenots’ role in the French Wars of Religion? The French Wars of Religion were a series of conflicts between Catholics and Huguenots, fought intermittently from 1562 to 1598. Key figures of the war included Jeanne d’Albret, her son Henry IV, and the princes of Condé.
2 days ago · In that time, Napoleon reformed the French educational system, developed a civil code (the Napoleonic Code), and negotiated the Concordat of 1801. He also initiated the Napoleonic Wars (c. 1801–15), a series of wars that carried over into his reign as emperor of France (1804–14/15). As Emperor Napoleon I, he modernized the French military.
- Who was Napoleon?Napoleon I, also called Napoléon Bonaparte, was a French military general and statesman. Napoleon played a key role in the French Revolution (1789–...
- How did Napoleon become emperor of France?Napoleon first seized political power in a coup d’état in 1799. The coup resulted in the replacement of the extant governing body—a five-member Dir...
- What happened to Napoleon?After a series of military defeats in 1812–13, Napoleon was forced to abdicate the French throne on April 6, 1814. Napoleon returned to power in ea...
- Was Napoleon short?No! “Le Petit Caporal” wasn’t petite—at least not by 19th-century standards. The estimated average height of a French man in 1820 was 5 feet 4 inch...
1 day ago · A survey of the French Church and its impact on society over the course of the 17th century must take into account the legacy of the church’s long-established roots in France, the substantial regional and local variations in church structures and practices and its sheer ubiquity.
2 days ago · This is a list of wars involving modern France from the abolition of the French monarchy and the establishment of the French First Republic on 21 September 1792 until the current Fifth Republic. For wars involving the Kingdom of France (987–1792), see List of wars involving the Kingdom of France .
4 days ago · This is the 90th anniversary of the Barmen Declaration, the statement of faith issued by the “Confessing Church” of Germany, the Christians who opposed the takeover of the Protestant churches by Nazi theologians. At a time when political ideologies again threaten to crowd out Christian theology with a “social gospel” of either the left ...
4 days ago · French: Jean Calvin or Jean Cauvin. Born: July 10, 1509, Noyon, Picardy, France. Died: May 27, 1564, Geneva, Switzerland (aged 54) Notable Works: Geneva Catechism. “Institutes of the Christian Religion” Subjects Of Study: Calvinism. Protestantism. hymnbook. sacred music. Role In: Reformation. On the Web:
5 days ago · No British writer could ignore the French wars of religion in the late 16th century, nor the outpouring of works on resistance and on monarchical authority spawned by that conflict. From the early 1620s, moreover, the English political nation was deeply troubled by the events in Europe and particularly by the seizure of the Palatinate.
