| French Revolution The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Enlightenment principles of citizenship and inalienable rights. French_Revolution
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| Persecution of Christians The persecution of Christians is the religious persecution that Christians have endured as a consequence of professing their faith, both historically and in the current era. In the two thousand years of the Christian faith, about 70 million believers, of whom 45.5 million or 65% lived in the twentieth century, have been killed for their faith. Persecution_of_Christians
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| Antoine Lavoisier Talk:Antoine_Lavoisier
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| Violence Violence is the expression of physical force against self or other, compelling action against one's will on pain of being hurt. Variant uses of the term refer to the destruction of non-living objects (see property damage). Worldwide, violence is used as a tool of manipulation and also is an area of concern for law and culture who take attempts to suppress and stop it. Violence
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| Homophile The word homophile is an alternative to the word homosexual, preferred by some because it emphasizes love ("-phile" from Greek φιλία) over sex. Coined by the German astrologist, author and psychoanalyst Karl-Günther Heimsoth in his 1924 doctoral dissertation "Hetero- und Homophilie," the term was in common use in the 1950s and 1960s by homosexual organisations and publications; the groups of this period are now known collectively as the homophile movement. Homophile
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| Concino Concini Concino Concini, Count della Penna, Marquis and Maréchal d'Ancre (Florence, 1575 - Paris, 24 April 1617), was an Italian politician, best known for being a minister of Louis XIII of France, as the favourite of his mother.A nobleman native of Florence, he came to France in the train of Maria de Medici, wife of King Henri IV, and married the queen's lady-in-waiting, Leonora Dori, known as "Galigaï". Concino_Concini
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| List of historians by area of study List_of_historians_by_area_of_study
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| List of wars and disasters by death toll This is a list of wars and human-made disasters by death toll. It covers the Lowest Estimate of death as well as the Highest Estimate, the name of the event, the location, and the start and end of each war. Some events overlap categories. List_of_wars_and_disasters_by_death_toll
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| War in the Vendée The War in Vendée (1793 to 1796) was a civil war and counterrevolution in Vendée between Royalists and Republicans during the French Revolution. Some scholars consider the killing of the hundreds of thousands of Catholic Vendeans by the anticlerical French state at the end of the war to be the first modern genocide. Vendée is a coastal region, immediately south of the Loire River in west central France. War_in_the_Vendée
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| Genocides in history Genocide is the mass killing of a group of people. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such Because of the insistence of Joseph Stalin, this definition of genocide under international law does not include political or economic groups. Genocides_in_history
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| Francs-tireurs Talk:Francs-tireurs
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| Gay Liberation Gay Liberation is the name used to describe the radical lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement of the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s in North America, Western Europe, and Australia and New Zealand. The phrase is somewhat synonymous with the contemporary gay rights movement and broader LGBT social movements, but following the academic use, this article is about movements of a particular historical period that shared similar goals and strategies. Gay_Liberation
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| George Rudé George Rudé (February 8, 1910–January 8, 1993) was a British Marxist historian, specializing in the French Revolution and "history from below," especially the importance of crowds in history. George_Rudé
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| Derek Croxton Derek Croxton is an American academic specialized in History. He authored several articles on military and diplomatic aspects of the Thirty Years' War. Croxton wrote Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe. He also worked as Adjunct Professor at Madonna College and has taught at Ohio State University and at Columbus State Community College.Alongside Anuschka Tischer, he wrote the critically-acclaimed The Peace of Westphalia. Derek_Croxton
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| Pierre Klossowski Pierre Klossowski (August 9, 1905—August 12, 2001) was a French writer, translator and artist. He was the eldest son of the artists Erich Klossowski and Baladine Klossowska, and his younger brother was the painter Balthus. Pierre_Klossowski
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| Joan of Arc bibliography Talk:Joan_of_Arc_bibliography
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| Louis Guilloux Louis Guilloux (15 january 1899 - 1980) was a French writer born in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, where he lived throughout his life. He is known for his Social Realist novels describing working class life and political struggles in the mid-twentieth century. His best-known book is Le Sang noir (Black Blood), which has been described as a "prefiguration of Sartre's "La Nausée"." Louis_Guilloux
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| Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy (September 14, 1665, Paris September 2, 1746, Paris), generally called Colbert de Torcy, was a French diplomat, who negotiated some of the most important treaties towards the end of Louis XIV's reign, notably the treaty (1700) that occasioned the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), in which the dying Charles II of Spain named Louis XIV's grandson, Philippe, duc d'Anjou, heir to the Spanish throne, eventually founding the line of Spanish Bourbons. Jean-Baptiste_Colbert,_marquis_de_Torcy
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| Society for French Historical Studies The Society for French Historical Studies (SFHS) is, along with the Western Society for French History (WSFH), one of the two primary historical societies devoted to the study of French history headquartered in the United States.The SFHS edits the journal French Historical Studies and holds an annual conference. SFHS is affiliated with the academic discussion forum H-France . Society_for_French_Historical_Studies
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| French Historical Studies French Historical Studies is the quarterly journal of the Society for French Historical Studies (SFHS), one of the two primary historical societies devoted to the study of French history headquartered in the United States. It publishes articles in English and French.The first issue was published in 1958 with Marvin L. French_Historical_Studies
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