The Gauls settled here BC. In the 1st century BC, Caesar, then governor of Gaul, occupied all of Gaul and was ruled by Rome for 500 years. In the 5th century AD, the Franks conquered Gaul and established the Frankish Kingdom. Among them, West Francia is the prototype of France. After the 10th century, feudal society developed rapidly. In 1337, the King of England coveted the throne of France, and the "Hundred Years' War" broke out. In the early days, a large area of ??French land was occupied by the British and the French king was captured. Later, the French people launched a war against aggression and ended the Hundred Years War in 1453. From the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 16th century, a centralized state was formed. In the mid-17th century, the absolute monarchy reached its peak under the rule of Louis XIV, and France became a major power in Europe. However, in the middle and late period of Louis XIV's reign, in order to compete for European hegemony, he continued to fight foreign wars, which consumed a lot of national power and the country began to weaken. Eleven years after the deaths of Voltaire and Rousseau, with the development of bourgeois power, on July 14, 1789, armed Paris citizens stormed the Bastille Prison. There were only seven people in the prison at the time, but the citizens fought fiercely for a day and sacrificed 98 people. On August 26, 1789, the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen", the program of the French Revolution, was formally adopted.

Appreciating French scenery (19 photos) From 1789 to 1792, the Constitutionalists (Feuillantists) came to power. During this period, France was a constitutional monarchy. The Revolution abolished the monarchy and established the First French Republic on September 22, 1792. On November 9, 1799 (18th Brumaire), Napoleon Bonaparte seized power. On December 2, 1804, a grand coronation ceremony was held at Notre Dame de Paris, and Napoleon Bonaparte became the leader of the First French Empire. emperor. On April 13, 1814, Napoleon signed the edict of abdication, and the First French Empire fell. On May 3 of the same year, the Earl of Provence, who had been exiled in England, returned to the country and ascended the throne as King Louis XVIII of France. In March 1815, Napoleon returned to Paris to rebuild the empire and establish the Hundred Days Dynasty. In 1815, Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo and announced his abdication. Louis XVIII returned to Paris on July 8 to restore the Bourbon dynasty. In July 1830, the July Revolution broke out in France and the July Dynasty was established. The "French February Revolution" broke out in February 1848 and established the Second French Republic. In 1851, President Louis Bonaparte launched a coup and established the Second Empire in December of the following year. On March 18, 1871, the people of Paris held an armed uprising and established the Paris Commune. At the end of May of the same year, it was brutally suppressed by the French army. After being defeated in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, France established the Third French Republic in September 1871, which lasted until the French Pétain government surrendered to Germany in June 1940, ending the Third French Republic. In 1944, de Gaulle's "Free France" liberated France. In June 1944, the provisional government was announced, with de Gaulle as the leader. In 1946, the constitution was adopted and the Fourth Republic of China was established. In September 1958, a new constitution was adopted and the Fifth Republic of China was established. In December of the same year, Charles de Gaulle was elected president. In 1959, France announced its acceptance of national self-determination in colonial Algeria, thus beginning to bid farewell to colonialism. In 1963, France and the Federal Republic of Germany signed the "Franco-German Friendship Treaty" and reconciled with their old enemy Germany. On January 27, 1964, France established diplomatic relations with New China and became the first Western power to recognize New China. In 1966, France announced its withdrawal from the NATO military integration organization and only participated in some NATO activities. It also restricted countries to remove their troops and bases on French territory within one year. In May 1981, socialist F.M.M. Mitterrand was elected president. In the National Assembly election held in June, the Socialist Party won 55 seats, thus becoming the largest party in France. In the March 1986 National Assembly election, the Socialist Party suffered a setback, resulting in a situation where a left-wing president and a right-wing prime minister were cooperating, unprecedented since the founding of the Fifth Republic. In 1992, the "European League" was signed in Maastricht, the Netherlands.