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French History This Month - April
Events:
Louisiana claimed for France - 9.04.1682
Named by Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle.
France cedes Newfoundland & Gibraltar to Britain - 11.04.1713
In the Treaty of Utrecht ending the War of the Spanish Succession.
Napoléon abdicates and exiled to Elba - 11.04.1814
Louis XVIII became King of France.
Henri IV issues the Edict of Nantes - 13.04.1598
Gave religious freedom to the Huguenots
Jacques Cartier debarks in Labrador - 20.04.1534
Explorer
Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin - 24.04.1558
Guillotine used for the first time - 25.04.1792
In Paris
Construction of the Suez Canel begins - 25.04.1859
Supervised and designed by French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps
Charles de Gaulle resigns presidency - 28.04.1969
Joan of Arc lifts siege of Orléans - 29.04.1429
Opera Pelléas et Mélisande opens in Paris - 30.04.1902
By Debussy.
Births:
Edmond Rostand - 1.04.1868 - Playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac)
Gustave Moreau - 6.04.1826 - Painter
Charles Baudelaire - 9.04.1821 - Poet
Raymond Barre - 12.04.1924 - Politician
Jean Louis Petit - 20.04.1750 - Surgeon
Mme. de Staël - 22.04.1766 - Writer
Henri-Philippe Pétain - 24.04.1856 - General, politician
Mark Isambard Brunel - 25.04.1769 - French-born British engineer
Eugène Delacroix - 26.04.1798 - Painter
Anouk Aimée - 27.04.1932 - Film actress
Deaths:
Eleanor of Aquitaine - 1,04.1204 - Queen of France and England
Georges Pompidou - 2.04.1974 - President of France
André Michelin - 4.04.1931 - Tire manufacturer
Georges Danton - 5.04.1794 - Revolutionary leader, by the Guillotine
Pablo Picasso - 8.04.1973 - Catalonian expatriate artist
Josephine Baker - 12.04.1975 - US-born French singer and dancer
Jean de La Fontaine - 13,04.1695 - Writer of fables
Simone de Beauvoir - 14.04.1986 - Writer, feminist, thinker