Francis I of France: Did you mean...?

Marie de France (wrote c. 1160-1215 CE), from an illuminated manuscript now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France: BnF, Arsenal Library, Ms. 3142 fol. 256.

Portrait of the dauphin Louis-Charles de France (1785-1795), recognized by royalists as King Louis XVII of France. Oil on canvas by Alexander Kucharsky, 1792. Palace of Versailles.

Map of New France 1612 CE by Samuel de Champlain (1567?-1635 CE). National Library of France.

The Three Estates of pre-revolutionary France were the hierarchical social divisions that structured society under the Ancien Régime (French for "Old Regime," a term coined after the French Revolution to describe the pre-revolutionary system...

The House of Bonaparte was a short-lived but highly influential European dynasty that rose to prominence during the upheavals of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era (c. 1796–1815) and exercised imperial authority in France between...

Portrait of Louis XVI of France, oil on canvas painting by Antoine-François Callet, 1786. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

A map of New France c. 1750 CE within the context of European colonies in North America.

A map showing the various counties and duchies of France at the end of the 12th century.

Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre (1754-1793), oil on canvas painting by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, formerly attributed to Antoine-François Callet, c 1774-1776. Palace of Versailles.

Louis XVI, king of France and Navarre, wearing his grand royal costume in 1779, oil on canvas by Antoine-François Callet, 1789. Palace of Versailles.