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On 12 August 1624, Charles de La Vieuville - the minister who had personally forced Richelieu onto the royal council four months earlier - was arrested for corruption. By the next evening, the cardinal had his job, and would keep it for eighteen years.
On 14 May 1610, Henry IV of France was stabbed to death in his carriage on the Rue de la Ferronnerie by a Catholic zealot named François Ravaillac. He had survived thirty years of religious civil war. He did not survive a traffic jam.
On 8 April 1904, Britain and France signed the Entente Cordiale, ending nearly a millennium of rivalry with a series of colonial bargains. The agreement did not just settle old disputes — it eventually helped ignite a world war.
On 18 March 1871, Adolphe Thiers sent soldiers before dawn to seize 170 cannons from Montmartre. By evening, the French government had abandoned Paris. The working class ran the city for seventy-two days, long enough to terrify every government in Europe.
On 4th February 1794, the French National Convention abolished slavery throughout all territories of the First Republic — a revolutionary act that would shape colonial policy for generations.