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French History This Month - May
Events:
France and Spain agree to supply arms to American
Colonies - 2.05.1776
Dual fought from two hot-air balloons over Paris - 3.05.1808
A first.
Chanel No. 5 perfume is launched - 5.05.1921
The Channel Tunnel is opened - 6.05.1994
The tunnel linking France and Britain
Tunisia becomes a French protectorate - 12.05.1881
The Dauphin marries Marie Antoinette - 16.05.1770
Later he became Louis XVI
Napoléon declared Emperor - 16.05.1804
Matins of Bruges - 18.05.1302
A French garrison was massacred when Flemish revolted against French occupation
Charles Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget airfield -
21.05.1927
Just outside of Paris, ending the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight. Well I made it. he said.
Joan of Arc captured - 23.05.1430
By Burgundian troops who handed her over to the English.
France proclaims Lebanon a republic - 23.05.1926
Napoléon crowned King of Italy - 26.05.1805
In Milan Cathedral
France cedes former settlements in India to the Indian
Union - 28.05.1956
The original Orient Express train leaves Paris for the
last time - 28.05.1961
It had connected Paris and Bucharest for 78 years.
British forces evacuated from Dunkirk - 29.05.1940
Joan of Arc burned at the stake in Rouen - 30.05.1431
Births:
Maximilien François Robespierre - 6.05.1758
Revolutionary leader
Paul Gauguin - 8.05.1903
Painter
Salvador Dali - 11.05.1904
Catalonian Expatriate painter
Joseph Nicolas Delisle - 12.05.1688
Astronomer
Jules Massenet - 12.05.1842
Composer
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot - 13.05.1753
Revolutionary leader
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle - 16.05.1760
French soldier who wrote Le Marseillaise
Erik Satie - 17.05.1866
Composer
Charles Aznavour - 22.05.1924
Singer
Philip III - 24.05.1245
King of France
Jean-Paul Marat - 24.05.1743
Revolutionary
Charles d'Orléans - 26.05.1391
Poet
Edmond de Goncourt - 26.05.1822
Novelist
Joseph Guillotin - 28.05.1738
Physician and revolutionary
Léon Bourgeois - 29.05.1851
Politician
Deaths:
Charles, Duke of Bourbon - 5.05.1527
Napoléon Bonaparte - 5.05.1821
Jacques de Thou - 7.05.1617
Historian and politician
Paul Doumer - 7.05.1932
President, assassinated
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier - 8.05.1794
Chemist, discoverer of Oxygen, guillotined
Gustave Flaubert - 8.05.1880
Novelist
Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac - 9.05.1850
Physicist and chemist
Jean Grolier - 14.05.1565
Diplomat and bibliophile
Henry IV - 14.05.1610
King of France, assassinated
Daniel Auber - 14.05.1871
Composer
Héloise - 16.05.1164
Abbess, pupil and secretly married
to Peter Abélard
Peter the Lombard - 16.05.1164
Bishop of Paris
Charles Perraut - 16.05.1703
Writer of fairy tales
Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord - 17.05.1838
Politician
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais - 18.05.1799
Playright
Augustin Thierry - 22.05.1856
Historian
Gaspard Poussin - 25.05.1675
Painter
François Boucher - 30.05.1770
Painter
Voltaire - 30.05.1778
Author, philosopher
Jean Cavalier - 31.05.1740
Huguenot preacher and leader