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Les Lignées des roys de France (“The Lines of French Kings”), c. 1450; the parchment roll contains an abbreviated version of Les Grandes Chroniques de France, the official history of the French realm that was maintained by the Benedictine monks of the royal abbey at Saint- Denis.
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The Kingdom of France in the early modern period, from the Renaissance ( c. 1500–1550) to the Revolution (1789–1804), was a monarchy ruled by the House of Bourbon (a Capetian cadet branch ). This corresponds to the so-called Ancien Régime ("old rule").
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By 1700, the new British and French colonial projects prompted a fierce rivalry, and began a century of wars between these two global maritime empires. The world looked radically different in 1750 than it had in 1450, or even 1590.
The French colonial empire (French: Empire colonial français) comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward.
