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  1. Hello. My name is Michel and I'm gonna talk about
  2. France and some significant movements in history.
  3. I'm going to talk about the age of exploration.
  4. French wars of religion, enlightenment and the industrial revolution.
  5. The age of exploration.
  6. Waas, um delayed in France.
  7. Once the French captured a Spanish ship with Mexican golden
  8. silver, they directed their efforts to the West.
  9. Jacques Cartier was a French explorer under King Francis.
  10. The first the King supported his expiration to the new
  11. World. To search for riches to find and to find
  12. a new wrapped Asia.
  13. Like other explorers, he embellished the amount of resource is
  14. area had and was unable to send any riches back
  15. to France.
  16. He was also unable to find a new route to
  17. Asia. He was successful in claiming the Northern North America
  18. for France.
  19. In 15 34 he named the area ST Louis River,
  20. New France.
  21. That land would become what we know.
  22. Noah's Canada, which he named Samuel Day Champlain, was another
  23. French explorer.
  24. He explored the Caribbean in 16 01 in the coast
  25. of New England, 16 03 Before he travelled further north,
  26. he founded Quebec in 16 08 and meets up trips
  27. across the Atlantic as he promoted in France in 16
  28. 35. Ah, the French wanted to expand into trouble climb
  29. mates they saw in opportunity.
  30. Once Spain became vulnerable, the French focused in on small
  31. islands in the West Indies.
  32. By 16 35 France had colonized Guadeloupe and Martinique.
  33. They lost control of the islands a few more times
  34. over history, but it finally became overseen by France in
  35. 1946. French is the official language of Guadalupe.
  36. Now I'm going to switch over to the French wars
  37. of religion.
  38. The religion.
  39. The French wars of religion was a time of civil
  40. war between French Catholics and Protestants.
  41. Also known issue.
  42. It acts at the time.
  43. The disputes included the House of Bourbon against the House
  44. of G's, in which both sides received help from other
  45. foreign. Resource is the massacre of Asi in 15 62
  46. is known to be the cause of the wars of
  47. religion. The mass secure Um killed about 100 human knots
  48. during the religion wars.
  49. Peace treaties were signed but were followed by outbursts of
  50. new conflict and the struggle for power between the two
  51. religions. 15 98 was the end of the war as
  52. a result of the wars, disease and famine.
  53. Millions of people were killed in 15 98.
  54. When the war suspended, the human outs were given freedom
  55. in certain rights by the addictive noughties.
  56. This, however, did not in aggression towards the human knots
  57. from the Catholic population in the Enlightenment in the early
  58. 17 hundreds, the Enlightenment was understood as a time when
  59. traditional message, the methods of thinking were questioned and challenged.
  60. The French enlightenment consisted of three main sources rationalism, empiricism
  61. and if amorphous, these thoughts and new ideas inspired the
  62. French Revolution, we'll tear.
  63. Voltaire was an influence of his time.
  64. He was a celebrated French enlightened author.
  65. He used his wit to reveal the irrationality of absolutism
  66. and intolerance of the French rule.
  67. He opposed the unlawful death of Jean Callous in sixth.
  68. In 17 62 he used his death to lead a
  69. movement for religious toleration and a reform of French laws.
  70. In Maan, Sq, on school is another French enlightment author
  71. that had an impact on the people of France.
  72. Monusco, You wrote a book that consisted of letters called
  73. the person letters.
  74. The person letters highlighted the contradictions of the French government,
  75. especially towards Catholic Church.
  76. The Catholic Church did their mess to stop the people
  77. from, uh, reading the book.
  78. They were unsuccessful.
  79. His view was that no political system could claim divine
  80. sanction. He believed that a separation from church and politics
  81. help protect the liberty of individuals.
  82. His ideas had a powerful effect at the beginning of
  83. the revolution in 17 89 and was mentioned more than
  84. any other influencer of the time.
  85. An industrial revolution.
  86. France was also, um, slow, that, um, getting in on
  87. the revolution.
  88. The main reason or delay was the lack of access
  89. to natural supply, such as coal, since Cole was sparse
  90. tw the French relying on timber for a long period
  91. time. French agricultural also flourished at the time since the
  92. revolution allowed, farmers and peasants should thrive after being freed
  93. from taxes and debt.
  94. Oh, trade was also established in France in the 18th
  95. century. France had a high demand for porcelain other goods
  96. and still they also had a reputation for manufacturing the
  97. most accurate clocks in the world, and they also had
  98. caught the mills by 18 30 factories could be found
  99. in specific region of France.
  100. Most important were three well known cotton mills.
  101. Thes mills had an effect on the industry that began
  102. the export of spinning machines, and cotton looms to the
  103. rest of Europe.
  104. Yeah, coal mining caught up to France in the 19th
  105. century. Coal mining was especially popular in Lorraine.
  106. The industry was dominated by one family, the do Window
  107. family. They own coal mines, iron mills, and we're dedicated
  108. to new techniques emerging from England.
  109. Early on, they introduced steam engine and peddling kilns.
  110. These actions improve the quality of iron.
  111. Gracie, that's my presentation.
  112. Thank you.