History

Julius Caesar established the  full  Roman Empire control over Gaul (ancient name of france) in 51 B.C. An important personage of that time was the Gallic chief: Vercingétorix (which fought against the Roman empire, but then was defeated and killed), but by 400 A.D, Rome was in decline. Gaul was attacked by neighboring tribes, including Visigoths, Vandals, and the Germanic Franks, from which France would eventually get its name. In 843 a treaty created the territory of West Francia, which would later become France.

Vercingétorix

In the times of kings and knights, terrible wars occurred between them called the Hundred Years War, from 1337 to 1453. In 1789, a violent period of change called the French Revolution began, eventually ending in the overthrow of the monarchy (French people are bored with their ruthless and vicious kings and they said “¡goodbye MF!” (Louis XVI and her married Maria Antoinette) using the guillotine 

Eugéne Delacroix: Liberty leading the people

Napoleon Bonaparte was a general during the French Revolution which was subsequently proclaimed leader of France. He made great conquests throughout Europe, until he suffered two major defeats: the campaign of 1812 in Russia and Battle of Waterloo in 1815. France has its main ideals expressed in the 18^th-century Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. In the New Granada, Antonio Nariño (in his years in prison) translated to Spanish this declaration

Napoleón

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, France built the second-largest colonial empire of the time, ruling large portions of first North America (Napoleon sold Louisiana to the third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson ) and India and then Northwest and Central Africa; Madagascar; Indochina; and many caribbean and Pacific Islands. During  the Second World War, France was occupied for troupes Nazis  in 1940, but was liberate for the allied troupes in  6 June of 1944 in the D-day: the Normandy landings

 In May 1968, students and groups of workers began a strike, demanding social improvements: occupied streets, universities, factories throughout France. The mood of the people was earnest and had a great impact over the next decades