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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › French_francFrench franc - Wikipedia

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   The franc ( / fræŋk /; French: franc français, [fʁɑ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛ]; sign: F or Fr ), [n 2] also commonly distinguished as the French franc ( FF ), was a currency of France. Between 1360 and 1641, it was the name of coins worth 1 livre tournois and it remained in common parlance as a term for this amount of money. It was reintroduced (in ...

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_French_monarchsList of French monarchs - Wikipedia

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   List of French monarchs. From top; left to right: Robert I, Hugh Capet, Louis IX, Francis I, Henry IV, Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Napoleon I, Napoleon III. The family tree of Frankish and French monarchs (509–1870) France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in ...

   Portrait	Name	Arms	Reign
   Hugh "Capet" Hugues [l]	1 June 987 [xiii] – 24 October 996 (9 ...	Elected king by the French nobles. Son of ...	c. 940 – 24 October 996 (aged approx. 55) ...
   Robert II "the Pious"	24 October 996 [xiv] – 20 July 1031 (34 ...	Only son of Hugh Capet	c. 970 – 20 July 1031 (aged approx. 60) ...
   Hughes (junior king) [n]	19 June 1017 – 17 September 1025 (under ...	Son of Robert II	c. 1007 – 17 September 1025 (aged approx.
   Henry I Henri	20 July 1031 [xv] – 4 August 1060 (29 ...	Son of Robert II	c. 1005 – 4 August 1060 (aged approx. 55) ...

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   • Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I, king of the Franks ( r. 507–511 ), as the first king of France. However, historians today consider that such a kingdom did not begin until the establishment of West Francia, during the dissolution of the Carolingian Empire in the 800s.

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   • France possesses a wide variety of landscapes, from coastal plains in the north and west to mountain ranges of the Alps in the southeast, the Massif Central in the south-central and Pyrenees in the southwest.

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   • An entirely ceremonial post, the first president was Jean-François Rewbell, who was chosen by lot on 2 November 1795. The Directors conducted their elections privately, with the presidency rotating every three months. The last President was Louis-Jérôme Gohier.

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   Where did the name France come from?

   • Originally applied to the whole Frankish Empire, the name France comes from the Latin Francia, or "realm of the Franks ". Modern France is still named today Francia in Italian and Spanish, while Frankreich in German, Frankrijk in Dutch and Frankrike in Swedish and Norwegian all mean "Land/realm of the Franks".

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4. simple.wikipedia.org › wiki › French_francFrench franc - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   hide. Beginning. References. French franc. The franc ( / fræŋk /; French: [fʁɑ̃]; sign: F or Fr ), also commonly known as the French franc ( FF ), was a currency of France. It is no longer in used after the introduction of the euro (for coins and banknotes) in 2002. Coins. 1 franc 1888, French Third Republic. 5 francs 1821, Louis XVIII.