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Headword Date Article Type
'Chambers of Reunion' meet at Metz, Breisach, Besançon and Tournai 1679 Topics Short note
Le Peletier becomes leading Finance Minister of France 1683 Topics Short note
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat 1689 - 1755 People
De Croissy becomes chief Finance Minister in France 1696 Topics Short note
William III leaves for Holland 1697 Topics Short note
Louis XIV appeals to French nation to reject humiliating peace proposals 1709 Topics Short note
Philip of Spain renounces claim to the French throne 1712 Topics Short note
Lord Bolingbroke flees to France 1715 Topics Short note
Walpole, Horace 1717 - 1797 People
Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, is acquitted of subterfuge with the French 1717 Topics Short note
Dubois becomes French Foreign Secretary 1717 Topics Short note
Dubois, Louis XV's First Minister, dies 1723 Topics Short note
Duke of Bourbon gains influence over Louis XIV 1723 Topics Short note
Cardinal Fleury becomes Chief Minister in France 1726 Topics Short note
Voltaire is banished from France 1726 Topics Short note
Anti-British Chauvelin becomes French Foreign Secretary 1727 Topics Short note
King of France orders the Paris Parlement not to meddle in politics 1730 Topics Short note
Paris Parlement places the clergy under the jurisdiction of the Crown 1731 Topics Short note
139 members of the Paris Parlement are exiled by order of the King 1732 Topics Short note
Paine, Thomas 1737 - 1809 People

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