On the 3rd September 1939, the Second World War officially began when France and the United Kingdom – together with Australia and New Zealand – declared war on Germany.
On the 27th August 1928, Germany, France and the United States signed the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy – otherwise known as the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre on the 21st August 1911.
French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft.
On the 24th July 1927, the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing was unveiled in the Belgian city of Ypres.
The Battle of Castillon, considered to be the last battle of the Hundred Years’ War, was fought between France and England.
The morning of the 14th July 1789 saw the beginning of the French Revolution when Parisian revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, a large fortress, prison and ammunition store that symbolised everything that was wrong with the monarchy.
The radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
The bikini swimsuit was introduced for the first time, four days after an atomic test at the Bikini Atoll.
British naval ships attacked the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria during the Second World War.
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