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The Franks are a Medieval, Gunpowder, and Imperial Age civilization in Empires: Dawn of the Modern World. The civilization depicted is not really based on Francia, but rather the subsequent Kingdom of France and the Napoleonic French Empire.

Description[]

The French nation was born from Frankish roots in the Medieval Age. Through strong defensive skills, its empire was able to grow and prosper. By the early 1800s, it spanned Europe from Iberia to Russia.

Overview[]

The Franks have the following abilities inherit to their civilization:

  • Buttressed Defenses: French walls and towers can withstand more damage than those of other civilizations due to the use of architectural buttresses. The flying buttress, a hallmark of Gothic architecture, is a support that distributes part of a wall’s weight over an arch to the ground.
  • Colonialism: Build more than one Fortress and units garrisoned in one Fortress can move covertly to exit from any other Fortress. Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608 and fortifications were soon constructed. In 1690 during King William’s War, the defenders of well-fortified Quebec easily repulsed an attack by British colonists.
  • Garde Nationale: When a French building is destroyed, there is a chance the building's guard will escape to fight on. The Garde Nationale formed in Paris after the storming of the Bastille in1789. Essentially a militia of the bourgeois (middle class), the Garde Nationale was intended to maintain order within the capital.
  • University of Paris, Medical School: The French are educated with basic medical knowledge, so French units are able to slowly heal themselves when they are idle. The study of medicine in France dates back the University of Paris, established around the beginning of the 13th Century. It was among the first true universities in Europe, open to all. In 1348, medical professors at the University wrote a treatise on the possible causes of the plague then sweeping Europe.
  • Land Owners: Granaries and farms are free, their price offset by the labour of the farmers. Serfs in the Middle Ages had few rights and paid rent to the landowners, or "land lords", in the form of labour.
  • Mining Guild: The French can assign more miners to a single mine than other civilizations. Stone miners are also more productive. Medieval Guilds existed for just about every type of occupation, maintaining standards of quality, setting prices and generally promoting their trade.
  • Watchmen: Vigilant French Peasants have a long line of sight. Workers inside Town Centres provide the building with an extended line of sight. Paris had a police force even before the French Revolution. A guard of armed men watched over the city to maintain civil order. Inspectors investigated crimes and paid informants kept tabs on the citizenry.

History[]

The Franks arose from tribes living in Northwest Europe. By the beginning of the 9th Century, the great Frankish king Charlemagne ruled an empire that included present-day France, northern Italy and parts of Germany. French culture and identity began to emerge over subsequent centuries.

In 1066, William of Normandy successfully invaded England, conquering the kingdom and taking the throne. Territorial disputes continued between the French and English, finally coming to a head in the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453). The English held territory on the continent for much of the war, but the French persevered. When King Henry V of England, due to become King of France, died in 1422, Charles VII of France moved to claim the throne. At the urging of Joan of Arc (who had rallied the French defenders to victory at Orleans), he travelled to Reims where he was officially crowned King in 1429. Charles bargained to reclaim Paris in 1435 and subsequently drove the English from Normandy and Aquitaine. In 1453, the English surrendered at the Battle of Castillion and the French won the Hundred Years’ War.

Another momentous event in French history was the French Revolution of 1789. Over the next few years, the Monarchy collapsed, King Louis XVI was executed, and war with the “First Coalition” of Austria and Prussia (and later Spain and Britain) broke out. The French pulled together and pushed the external threat back, but without internal stability, the situation remained critical. During the crisis, Napoleon Bonaparte rose through the military ranks due to his victories and ambition. Fie helped put down a counter-revolution in Paris in 1795 and became First Consul of France in 1799. Napoleon then defeated the “Second Coalition” and crowned himself Emperor in 1804. By 1810, the French controlled an empire that stretched across Europe from Spain to Russia.

See also[]

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