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1323-1324 – French Bishop Bernard Gui and the Inquisition. The late 13^th and early 14^th century. For15 years the evil head inquisitor of Toulouse, he executed more than 900 people for heresy. Gui book written in 1323-24. Heretical depravity. Identify, interrogate and punish heretics. (BBC Anthony Zurcher 1 Nov 2013).

August – October 1572 – Paris St Bartholomews day 24 August 1572 on the order of King Charles IX of France Huguenot inhabitants were murdered, homes attacked robbed, shops destroyed. On 25 August 1572 the government halted, but the killings went on. By the time the massacre had subsided in October 1572 an estimated 40,000 Huguenots were killed. Thousands fled France, many went to the UK. (Practical family history mag August 2003 UK).

9 Dec 1582 – France switched to the Gregorian calendar on 9 Dec 1582. (Ancestry march april 2007 p20).

1642 – Louis XIII died when Louis was four years old. (The great upheaval©2007 Jay Winik US)

1668-1682 – Louis began a palace in the village of Versailles. In 1682 the King officially moved into the palace. France’s Louis XIV went to war in 1673. He brutally repressed the Protestant Huguenots. (The great upheaval ©2007 Jay Winik).

30 July 1690 – Pierre Francois Creuze male, was born in France.

3 Oct 1681 - The wild geese, Irish Jacobite army who went to France, and the treaty of Limerick. (Family tree © 2009 p22).

16 July 1726 – Lewis Ogier was born in Moncoutant Poitou France.

1740 – Pierre Ogier died in France.

June 1774 – Coronation of King Louis XVI. Paris riots over bread prices. (The great upheaval ©2007 Jay Winik US)

1783 – The epicentre of Europe was France, the globes mightiest empire. (The great upheaval ©2007 Jay Winik).

1788 – The hardest French winter in 80 years, many people and animals froze to death. A hailstorm ripped through central France. Food and supplies were hard to get. There was hunger and bread riots. (The great upheaval ©2007 Jay Winik US).

1788-1789 – The French revolution. Louis XVI. Gain shortages, hunger, riots and looting. (The great upheaval ©2007 Jay Winik US)

1793 – Louis XVI was publicly executed. (History today. Feb 2014 p19).

1793 – France during the French revolution, Maximilien Robespierre cracked down on internal dissent. A 12 member committee was created to identify and arrest half a million people, who were targeted by ruthless surveillance. (BBC Anthony Zurcher. 1 Nov 2013).

20 March 1813 – Archives, monthly sales records sent to the ministry of finance. Were burned during the Paris commune of 1871. Department archives Q series, land seized, the 1813 land sales. A law passed, 20 March 1813 by the French government to seize and sell land. Land seized and sold at auction, the rich got poor peasants land. (History Today. March 2013 UK).

1831-32 – Cholera struck and by 1831 it had reached Paris, within a year it had  killed 12,733 people in Paris. (History Today. March 2013 UK).

1835 – First recorded photograph of a person was made by Frenchman Louis Daguerre. (The people detective. ©2001 T McGregor UK).

26 Dec 1905 – Arrest of German spies in France. The Times London UK.

1910 – The German spy system in France. Paul Lanoir. London Mills and Boon. Worldcat database.

26 July 1910 – Angelo Anthony Buia was born 26 July 1910 in Nice France to Sicilian parents. He died 3 May 2003 in Montgomery Maryland USA. (Manhattan mafia guide. Eric Ferarra ©2011 US).

1911 – Ho Chi Minh left for France where he became a founding member of the French Communist party, he agitated for Vietnamese independence. Government attic USA.

22 August 1914 – 27,000 French soldiers met their end. By the end of the year the French had suffered nearly a million casualties. The Germans 800,000 and 86,000 of the 120,000 first sent to France were killed or wounded. (The Economist. March April 2014).

10 May 1916 – German spies in France by George Prade. The Times London UK.

1929-33 – There were eight changes of government in France. (The momentous years. ©1961 Priestley and Betts).

1933-Nov 1940 – Maundy Gregory was sent to France in 1933 and told not to return to the UK. Called then Sir Arthur Gregory. He was interned by the Germans in November 1940 and died several months later. (Family skeletons. ©2005 UK R Paley & S Fowler).

1940-41 – In 1940 the French declared allegiance to the Nazi controlled Vichy government, with France soon by Germany, the Vichy in 1941. (The secret history of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).

14 May 1941 – 3,600 Jews were arrested in Paris. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

26-28 August 1942 – 7,000 Jews were arrested in unoccupied France. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

6 April 1944 – Nazis raid a French home for Jewish children. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

13 Nov 1944 – German spies shot in France. The Times London UK.

November 1945 – With 907,000 members in France by the end of 1945, the Communists were the largest party in the country. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).

1945-1954 – In France by 1954 industrial production was 50% more than in the last year before World War II. The number of tractors on French farms rose from 25,000 in 1945 to more than 100,000 by 1949, the year when France stopped issuing food ration coupons. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).

3 May 1946 – Colonel Dodderidge commander of the SSU station in Paris, Intel. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

May 1947 – The French Communist party voted no confidence in the government of PM Paul Ramadier, so he expelled their reps from his cabinet. In Sept 1947 the French Communist leader was Jacques Duclos. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

7-9 Sept 1950 – The French arrested and expelled 288 foreign Communists, para military of the French Communist party. Its journal the Mundo Obrere. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

April 1956 – Paris April 1956, the Soviets bugged the EUCOM HQ in Paris. Listening devices were found in the EUCOM conference room, bugging. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

Nov 1958 – Concern about atmospheric effects, Americans, Russians and British at a meeting on testing in Nov 1958. Only the French, since then, had exploded a nuclear bomb. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1979 – The Marseilles mafia, the truth behind the world of drug trafficking. Pierre Galante Louis Sapin WH Allen publisher.

1979 – New Zealander Yvonne Crossley was shot dead in France in 1979 with her six year old daughter. Mr Asia linked. (Law breakers mischief .©2009 Bronwyn Sell)

1990 – John W Young. France the cold war and the western alliance 1944-49. French foreign policy and post war Europe. Leister uni press.

1993 – Arlette Farge. Fragile lives. Violence, power and solidarity in eighteenth century Paris. Cabndie.

1998 – Hugh Gough. The newspaper press in the French revolution. Routledge. (History today. Feb 2014 p17).

2000 – The history of France. W Scott Haire. Google books.

July 2003 – There are 11,285 names engraved on the monument in France, they are Canadian ‘missing’, the soldiers who died in France and have no known graves. First world war. (Practical family history. July 2003 p40-41).

2008 – The hunt for Nazi spies, fighting espionage in Vichy France. Simon Kitson. Chicago uni press. Worldcat Database.

2013 – Many parts of Europe also suffered severe flooding in 2013. Hailstorms in Germany and France. (The Economist. March April 2014).

22 Sept 2013 – Newstalk ZB NZ. French police seized 1.3 tonnes of cocaine. AAP. Air France flight originated in Caracus, the Venezualan capital.

1 July 2014 – TVNZ One news AP. A French bank was fined $9 billion for violations BNP Paribas. Clients in Sudan, violated US trade sanctions Sudan, Cuba and Iran. US Justice dept.

5 Aug 2014 – Paris officer held in police HQ drug theft. 3 news NZ AFP. 52kg of cocaine from Paris HQ, a drug squads officer suspect, worth 2 million.

10 Aug 2014 – Decan chronicle. Surplus supermarket food may go to the poor, unsold good food may go to charity. French MPs in Paris.