The Capetian and later Valois monarchy that gradually unified the French-speaking lands into a centralized royal state, enduring from the election of Hugh Capet until the First French Republic.
Abolished when the First French Republic was proclaimed on 21 September 1792 by the National Convention, ending over 800 years of Capetian and Bourbon monarchy.
The atlas holds 13 border frames for Kingdom of France — the shape you scrub through changes in 987 · 1100 · 1240 · 1290 · 1350 · 1446 · 1511 · 1565 · 1625 · 1675 · 1708 · 1749 · 1766.
Covers the defining dynastic conflict that shaped the late medieval Kingdom of France.
The great contemporary chronicle of 14th-century France and the Hundred Years War by an eyewitness courtier.
Paris of 1482, built around the cathedral at the kingdom’s heart.
Swashbuckling in Louis XIII’s France of the 1620s, Richelieu and all.