France Archive

AncientPages.com - On November 25, 885, the Vikings laid siege to Paris. The Siege of Paris of 885-86 was part of a Viking in the Kingdom of the West

AncientPages.com - On November 11, 1805, the battle of Durnstein took place in the Wachau valley, on the river Danube, 73 kilometers (45 mi) upstream from Vienna, Austria. It

AncientPages.com - On November 3, 1492, the Peace of Etaples was signed in Étaples (northern France) between the kings Charles VIII Valois of France and Henry VII Tudor

AncientPages.com - On October 13th, 1307, King Philip IV of France, in league with Pope Clement V, ordered the arrest of all Templars in the Kingdom of France;

AncientPage.com - On  September 17, 1577, the Treaty of Bergerac was signed at Bergerac on 14 September 1577 and later ratified by the Edict of Poitiers. It was the

AncientPages.com - On July 28, 1794, Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine in Paris, France. Robespierre had dominated the Committee of

AncientPages.com - On July 14th, 1789, Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops attacked the Paris fortress-prison Bastille. The Bastille, a royal fortress that symbolized the tyranny of the Bourbon

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Beneath the streets of Paris, there is a huge underground labyrinth with dark galleries and narrow passages. It’s a gruesome place of great