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Headword Date Article Type
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
Chauvelin, the French Foreign Secretary, is suddenly dismissed 1737 Topics Short note
France institutes the Corvée, a system of forced labour for road-building 1738 Topics Short note
Boswell, James 1740 - 1795 People
Condorcet, Marie-Jean 1743 - 1794 People
Fleury's death initiates an aggressive French foreign policy 1743 Topics Short note

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