France
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Capital | Paris |
Language(s) | French, Occitan, Breton, Basque, German, Dutch |
Religion | Catholic |
Population | about 21,000,000 inhabitants |
Annual Revenues | about £7,000,000 (normalized in British pounds to allow comparison) |
Government | Kingdom |
Dependencies | At the beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession, France had several colonies:
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Rulers | 1643-1715 King Louis XIV |
Army | see the article French Army |
Navy | see the article French Navy |
International relations |
To do |
Trade | Like most colonial power, France had imposed a monopoly of trade to its colonies. Thus:
To do: more detail on French trade |
References
Abtheilung für Kriegsgeschichte des k. k. Kriegs-Archives: Feldzüge des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen, Series 1, Vol. 1, Vienna 1876, pp. 98-100
McEvedy, Colin: The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (to 1815), Harmondsorth: Penguin Books, 1972, pp. 54-61
Scherer, Herman: Histoire du commerce de toutes les nations depuis les temps ancies jusqu'à nos jours, Vol. 2 – Temps Modernes; Paris: Capelle, 1857, pp. 72-73
Wikipedia – Demographics of France]