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: Antilles Françaises (French Antilles) Grenade Guadeloupe Martinique Saint-Domingue St. Christopher's (present-day Saint Kitts) disputed with Great Britain Indian Counters Chandernagore Pondichéry Mascareignes Isle Bourbon (present-day Réunion) Nouvelle France (New France) counting 20,000 inhabitants and consisting of Acadie Saint-Jean Island (now known as Prince Edward Island) Royale Island (now known as Cape Breton) Canada, along the Saint-Laurent River up to the Great Lakes Louisiane (a recent settlement on the Mississipi River at Fort Maurepas in 1699) Gorée Island
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: all exportations of sugar from Saint-Domingue and Martinique could be done exclusively to France; all importations in the colonies had to come from France and local manufacturing severely limited. 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]