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The monarchy that followed West Francia, usually dated from Hugh Capet's election in 987. Capetian, Valois and Bourbon kings fought the Hundred Years' War, moved the court to Versailles in 1682, and lost the throne when the Convention proclaimed a republic on 21 September 1792.

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  1. Hugh Capet is elected king and crowned at Noyon in 987, the first Capetian kingDisputed

    Sources disagree on the day of the crowning: 3 July or 1 June. The election was at Senlis in May. Some also reckon the realm from the Treaty of Verdun in 843, when it was West Francia.

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  2. Philip II defeats Otto IV and his allies at Bouvines on 27 July

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  3. Philip IV has every Templar in France arrested on 13 October

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  4. – The Hundred Years' War between the French and English crowns, begun over Gascony and Edward III's claim to the French throne, ends with the French victory at CastillonDisputed

    1453 is a convention: no peace treaty was signed, and England held Calais until 1558.

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  5. – French forces under Joan of Arc end the siege of Orléans in 1429, and she is burned at Rouen on 30 May 1431

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  6. Francis I's ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts requires French, not Latin, in legal and civil acts

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  7. – Henry IV grants Huguenots toleration by the Edict of Nantes on 13 April 1598, and Louis XIV revokes it on 18 October 1685

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  8. Louis XIV moves the court and government to Versailles on 6 MayDisputed

    The palace's own site gives 6 May 1682, and says the move had been under way since 1677. The World History Encyclopedia gives March 1682.

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  9. The Estates-General meets at Versailles on 5 May, and a crowd takes the Bastille in Paris on 14 July
  10. The Convention proclaims the republic on 21 September 1792, and Louis XVI is guillotined on 21 January 1793