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Brief history: The Gauls settled here before BC. In the 1st century BC, Caesar, the Roman governor of Gaul, occupied all of Gaul and was ruled by Rome for 500 years. In the 5th century AD, the Franks conquered Gaul and established the Frankish Kingdom. After the 10th century, feudal society developed rapidly. In 1337, the King of England coveted the throne of France and the "Hundred Years War" broke out. In the early days, a large area of ??French land was occupied by the British and the French king was captured. Later, the French people launched a war against aggression, ending the Hundred Years War in 1453.

A centralized state formed from the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 16th century. In the mid-17th century, the absolute monarchy reached its peak. With the development of bourgeois power, on July 14, 1789, Paris citizens armed with weapons were attacking the Bastille Prison. There were only seven people in the prison at the time, but the citizens fought fiercely for a day and sacrificed 98 people. On August 26, 1789, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, the program of the French Revolution, was formally adopted. In 1789, 11 years after the deaths of Voltaire and Rousseau, the French Revolution broke out. The French Revolution broke out in 1789, abolished the monarchy, and established the First French Republic on September 22, 1792. On November 9, 1799 (18th Brumaire), Napoleon Bonaparte seized power and proclaimed himself emperor in 1804, establishing the First Empire. On December 2, 1804, a grand coronation ceremony was held at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and Napoleon Bonaparte became the emperor of the First French Empire. On March 18, 1871, the people of Paris held an armed uprising and established the Paris Commune. At the end of May of the same year, it was brutally suppressed by the French army. The revolution broke out in February 1848 and the Second Republic of China was established. In 1851, President Louis Bonaparte launched a coup and established the Second Empire in December of the following year.

After being defeated in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, the Third French Republic was established in September 1871 until the French Pétain government surrendered to Germany in June 1940, and the Third French Republic was destroyed. . During the First and Second World Wars, France was invaded by Germany. In 1944, the French Arc de Triomphe, symbolizing victory, finally ushered in a real triumph.

Under the leadership of de Gaulle, the French nation fighting for freedom not only made its due contribution to the victory over fascism, but also paved the way for the revival of France after the war.

In June 1944, the provisional government was announced, with Charles de Gaulle as the leader. In 1946, the constitution was adopted and the Fourth Republic of China was established. In September 1958, a new constitution was adopted and the Fifth Republic of China was established. In December of the same year, Charles de Gaulle was elected president. In 1959, France announced its acceptance of the national self-determination of colonial Algeria, thus beginning to bid farewell to colonialism;

In 1963, France and the Federal Republic of Germany signed the "Franco-German Friendship Treaty" and reconciled with its old enemy Germany;

In 1964, France established diplomatic relations with New China and became the first Western power to recognize New China;

In 1966, France announced its withdrawal from NATO and ordered the United States to withdraw from French territory within one year. garrisons and bases.

France, which adheres to an independent foreign policy, has become a balancing force in the world. It is in this process of pursuing ideals that France has blazed its own path with its unique temperament.