Elise Raymonde Deroche was the daughter of a Parisian plumber.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Louis Philippe’s reign began positively, but over time he faced mounting opposition. After abdicating he fled across the Channel to Britain where he died two years later.
The English arranged carts containing barrels of herring into a defensive wagon fort, with sharpened stakes similar to those used at the Battle of Agincourt positioned around the perimeter.
The Paris Peace Conference convened to establish the terms of the peace after the First World War.
The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ceasefires.
The origin for the scandal lay in the discovery of a ripped-up letter in a waste basket at the German Embassy in Paris.
Napoleon’s coronation as Emperor of the French was a lavish affair that referenced various elements of Carolingian tradition, the ancien régime, and the French Revolution.
On the 11th November 1918, fighting on the First World War’s Western Front ended when representatives from the Allies and Germany signed the Armistice of Compiègne.
Over 8,000 French troops are estimated to have been killed in the Battle of Agincourt, while the English army’s losses under Henry V were less than 500.
The Granville–Paris Express train ran across the station platform, crashed through a 60cm wall, and fell 10 metres to the street below after it overran the buffer stop at the Gare Montparnasse terminus.
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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