French Revolution. Louis XVI (r. 1774–93) supported America with money, fleets and armies, helping them win independence from Great Britain. France gained...

The maîtresse-en-titre (French: [mɛtʁɛs ɑ̃ titʁ]) was the chief royal mistress of the King of France. The title was vaguely defined and used in the Middle...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1774. 1774 (MDCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded...

became dauphine of France in May 1770 at age 14 upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, heir apparent to the French throne. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended...

Louis Stanislas travelled about France more than other members of the Royal Family, who rarely left the Île-de-France. In 1774, he accompanied his sister Clotilde...

when his father died in 1765. He became King of France and Navarre on his grandfather's death on 10 May 1774, and reigned until the abolition of the monarchy...

Pierre-Narcisse, baron Guérin (13 March 1774 – 6 July 1833) was a French painter born in Paris. A pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, he carried off one of...

1760-1764 Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil 1772-1774 François-Michel Durand de Distroff [fr] 1774 Charles-Louis Le Clerc, marquis de Juigné 1782-1784...

The Museum d’Histoire Naturelle Aix en Provence is a natural history museum in Aix en Provence, France. Up to 2014, the museum was accommodated in the...

Claude Antoine Compère (21 May 1774 – 7 September 1812) was a French officer and later general who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic...

wife, died in 1768 and Louis himself died on 10 May 1774. Louis XVI had become the Dauphin of France upon the death of his father Louis, the son of Louis...

History of France 1610–1774 (1999), survey by leader of the Annales School ISBN 0631211969 Lewis, W. H. The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis...

lines of arias, choruses, etc., are given in Italian (1762 version) and French (1774 version). A chorus of nymphs and shepherds join Orfeo around the tomb...

five-year-old great-grandson who reigned as Louis XV until his death in 1774. In 1718, France was once again at war, as Philip II of Orléans's regency joined...

Régime: A History of France 1610–1774 (1999), survey by leader of the Annales School excerpt and text search Potter, David. France in the Later Middle...

the city's overflowing cemeteries. Preparation work began shortly after a 1774 series of basement wall collapses around the Holy Innocents' Cemetery added...

main islands beyond Tahiti. A short-lived Spanish settlement was created in 1774, and for a time some maps bore the name Isla de Amat after Viceroy Amat....

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1774. February 22 – The English legal case of Donaldson v Beckett is decided in...

Politics of France President of France renamed from La République En Marche! in September 2022 List on the website of the French Prime Minister (in French)...

Anfossi – Olimpiade Christoph Willibald Gluck Iphigenie en Aulide Wq.40 Orphée et Eurydice, Wq.41 (French revision of Wq. 30) Josef Mysliveček – Artaserse,...

of 1774. This act allowed Canadiens to regain their civil customs, return to the seigneural system, regain certain rights including use of French, and...

1742–1744: Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle 1745–1764: Madame de Pompadour 1769–1774: Madame du Barry After 1755, unofficial lovers of the king who did not belong...

Sophie Philippine Élisabeth Justine of France (27 July 1734 – 2 March 1782) was a French princess, a fille de France. She was the sixth daughter and eighth...

west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the government of France and since 1995 has been managed, under the direction of the French Ministry of Culture...

ISBN 0-3939-2495-5 Wells, Mike (2018). OCR A Level History: The French Revolution and the rule of Napoleon 1774–1815. Hodder Education. ISBN 978-1510415829. Archived...

rebellion in 1774–75, the French saw an opportunity to undermine British power. When the American War of Independence broke out in 1775, the French began sending...

Marie Adélaïde de France (23 March 1732 – 27 February 1800) was a French princess, the sixth child and fourth daughter of King Louis XV and Queen Marie...

Marie le Gendre Luçay (comte de), Des origines du pouvoir ministériel en France: les secrétaires d'état depuis leur institution jusqu'à la mort de Louis...

United States. France did not succeed in catching up with Britain, but was overtaken by several of her rivals. The reign of Louis XVI (1774–1792) had seen...