The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
France
Europe
View Larger MapDescription of institution: Officially the French Republic, France is a unitary semi-presidential republic within the European Union, located mostly in Western Europe,[note 12] with several overseas regions and territories. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. From its shape, it is often referred to in French as l’Hexagone ("The Hexagon").
France is the largest country in Western Europe and the third-largest in Europe as a whole. It possesses the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France has been a major power with strong cultural, economic, military, and political influence in Europe and around the world.[6] France has its main ideals expressed in the 18th-century Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, France built the second-largest colonial empire of the time, ruling large portions of first North America and India and then Northwest and Central Africa; Madagascar; Indochina and southeast China; and many Caribbean and Pacific Islands. URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France Location contains: Basse-Normandie (Region)
Épernay (Settlement)
Île Saint-Honorat (Island)
Île de la Cité (Neighbourhood)
Île-de-France (Region)
Abbeville (Settlement)
Agde (Settlement)
Aix-en-Provence (Settlement)
Alps (Mountain(s) or Hill(s) or Volcano)
Alsace (Region)
Alsatia (Region)
Ambianum (Settlement)
Amiens (Settlement)
Antibes (Settlement)
Aquitaine (Region)
Arelate (Settlement)
Arles (Settlement)
Arsenal de Paris (Institution)
Au Vert de Bois (Inn) (Commercial establishment)
Avignon (Settlement)
Bar (Region)
Barbery (Settlement)
Beauvais (Settlement)
Bergerac (Settlement)
Bordeaux (Settlement)
Boulogne-sur-Mer (Settlement)
Bourges (Settlement)
Bourgfontaine Charterhouse (Institution)
Brittany (Region)
Burgundy (Region)
Calais (Settlement)
Centre-Val de Loire (Region)
Château d'Amboise (Building (non-institution))
Château de Marly (Building (non-institution))
Château de Meudon (Building (non-institution))
Châtillon-sur-Marne (Settlement)
Champagne-Ardenne (Region)
Church of St. Eustache (Institution)
Church of the Cordeliers (Church)
Corsica (Island)
Dordogne (Region)
Douai (Settlement)
English Channel (Body of Water)
English College (Institution)
Faubourg Saint-Germain (Neighbourhood)
Gaul (Region)
Grenoble (Settlement)
Hauts-de-Seine (Region)
Hotel de Ville (Address)
Iberian Peninsula (Region)
Indre-et-Loire (Region)
Isère (Body of Water)
Isle of Rhé (Island)
Jardin de l'Arquebuse (Land feature)
Jardin du Luxembourg (Site)
L'écu (Inn) (Commercial establishment)
La Croix blanche (White Cross Inn) (Commercial establishment)
La Rochelle (Settlement)
La digue de Richelieu (Land feature)
Languedoc (Region)
Languedoc-Roussillon (Region)
Lerné (Region)
Lion D'argent (Inn) (Commercial establishment)
Loire (Body of Water)
Lorraine (Region)
Louvre Palace (Residence)
Lugdunum (Settlement)
Lunel (Settlement)
Luxembourg Palace (Residence)
Lyon (Settlement)
Marseille (Settlement)
Massalia (Settlement)
Mausoleo (Settlement)
Meaux (Diocese)
Mende (Diocese)
Mercoeur (Region)
Metz (Settlement)
Midi-Pyrénées (Region)
Monastery (Church)
Montpellier (Settlement)
Montreuil (Settlement)
Mount Cenis (Mountain(s) or Hill(s) or Volcano)
Nîmes (Settlement)
Narbo (Settlement)
Narbonne (Settlement)
Nemausus (Settlement)
Nord-Pas-de-Calais (Region)
Normandy (Region)
Notre-Dame de Paris (Church)
Orleans (Settlement)
Palais de la Cité (Institution)
Palais-Royal (Residence)
Paris (Settlement)
Pays de la Loire (Region)
Picardy (Region)
Pleurs (Settlement)
Poitiers (Settlement)
Poitou (Region)
Poitou-Charentes (Region)
Polvilla (Settlement)
Principality of Orange (Region)
Provence (Region)
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Region)
Rhône-Alpes (Region)
Rheims (Settlement)
Rhine (Body of Water)
Rhone (Body of Water)
Richelieu (Settlement)
Rohan (Settlement)
Rue des Juifs (Address)
Saône (Body of Water)
Saint-Lô (Settlement)
Saumur (Settlement)
Sedan (Settlement)
Selle (Region)
Silly-Tillard (Settlement)
Somme River (Body of Water)
Sone (Body of Water)
St. Denis (Settlement)
St. Denis Basilica (Church)
Strasbourg (Settlement)
Strasbourg Tower [ambiguous] (Settlement)
Tagus (Body of Water)
The Béarn (Region)
Toulouse (Settlement)
Tours (Settlement)
University of Grenoble (Institution)
University of Montpellier (Institution)
University of Paris (Institution)
University of Strasbourg (Institution)
Vault of the Cordeliers (Site)
Vendome (Region)
Versailles (Settlement)
Villers-Cotterêts (Settlement)
Yvelines (Region)
People associated with this location: Bargrave, John (1610-1680) - Visited
Bertie, Robert (8 Nov 1630-8 May 1701) - Visited
Bignon, Jean-Paul (1662-1743) - Residence at
Bodin, Jean (1530-1596) - Residence at
Bourdelot, Pierre Michon (1610 -1684/5) - Lived at or near
Briot, Nicholas (c. 1579-24 Dec 1646) - Lived at or near
Charas, Moyse (Moses) (1619 -1698) - Lived at or near
Charles Emmanuel II (1634-1675) - Title (royalty or holy order)
Charles IX of France (27 Jun 1550- 30 May 1574) - Title (royalty or holy order)
Christine of France (1606-1663) - Title (royalty or holy order)
Collignon, François (c. 1609-18 Jan 1687) - Birth place in
de Champaigne, Philippe (26 May 1602-12 Aug 1674) - Lived at or near
de Poilly, François (1623-1693) - Birth place in
du Laurens, André (1558-1609) - Lived at or near
Du Moulin, Pierre (1568-1658) - Residence at
Dupleix, Scipion (1569-1661) - Residence at
Frenchman (-) - Lived at or near
Gailhard, Jean (1665-1717) - Birth place in
Jurieu , Pierre (24 Dec 1637-11 Jan 1713) - Birth place in
Lepautre, Pierre (1652 -16 Nov 1716) - Lived at or near
Louis XI of France (3 Jul 1423-30 Aug 1483) - Title (royalty or holy order)
Matthieu, Pierre (1563-1621) - Residence at
Monconys, Balthasar de (1611-1665) - Residence at
Palissy, Bernard (c. 1510-c. 1589) - Owned
Philip IV of France (1268-29 Nov 1314) - Title (royalty or holy order)
Regnier, Pierre (1577-fl. 1640) - Lived at or near
Savot, Louis (1579-1640) - Birth place in
Serarius, Nikolaus (1555-1609) - Lived at or near
Thevet, André (1516-1590) - Birth place in
Vaillant, Sébastien (26 May 1669 -20 May 1722) - Birth place in
Print Sources linked to this location: Subject of discourse or work of art - Geschichte der Deutschen in England von den ersten germanischen ansiedlungen in Britannien bis zum ende des 18. jahrhunderts..
Subject of discourse or work of art - London in 1710, from the Travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach .
Visited - British curiosities in nature and art exhibiting an account of natural and artificial rareties, both ancient and modern, ... And an appendix, concerning the posts, markets, and their fairs.
Visited - Observations, topographical, moral, & physiological; made in a journey through part of the Low-Countries, Germany, Italy and France: with a catalogue of plants not native of England, found spontaneously growing in those parts, and their virtues ... Whereunto is added A brief account of Francis Willughby Esq. his voyage through a great part of Spain. Few MS. notes [and additions by Sir George Wheeler] .