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The ':''This article is about the French national capital ofin France'''general. isFor the current capital, see [[Paris]].''
 
The '''capital of France''' is [[Paris]].<ref>[https://www.parisdigest.com/paris/paris-facts.htm Paris facts]; retrieved 2018-08-05.</ref> In the course of history, the national capital has been in many locations other than Paris.
Paris is the current capital, but the capital's location has sometime changed. In some periods, Paris was a "former captial".
 
==History==
===List of capitals of France===
*[[Tournai]] (before 486)
*[[Paris]]<ref>Mackay, Alexander. (1876). [http://books.google.com/books?id=dm0DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA202&dq= ''Manual of Modern Geography, Mathematical, Physical, and Political,'' p. 202.]</ref>
*[[Soissons]] (486-ca. 900)
*[[Orléans]] (1108)<ref>Annandale, Charles ''et al.'' (1902). [http://books.google.com/books?id=AkLOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA229&dq=capital+of+france+%2B+Orleans&hl=en&ei=denPTuasJ4Tb0QH52_1E&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=capital%20of%20france%20%2B%20Orleans&f=false ''XX Century Cyclopædia,'' Vol. 6, p. 229.]</ref>
*[[Paris]] (900-1419) The residence of the kings of France, but they were consecrated at [[Reims]].
*[[Troyes]] (1419–1425)<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15067a.htm "Troyes,"] ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' (2009); retrieved 2011-11-29.</ref>
*[[Orléans]] (1108) One of the few consecrations of a French monarch to occur outside of Reims occurred at Orléans, when [[Louis VI the Fat]] was consecrated in [[Orléans Cathedral]] by [[Daimbert]], archbishop of Sens and from 13 December 1560 to 31 January 1561, the [[French States-General]] met here.
*Paris (1425–1682)▼
*[[Troyes]] (1419–1422) For a short time during the [[Hundred Years' War]], the town was the seat of the royal government.
*[[Versailles]] (1682–1715)<ref>Goodman, Dena. (1996). [http://books.google.com/books?id=c8NjULH3sB0C&pg=PA24&dq=capital+of+france+%2B+versailles&hl=en&ei=KPDPTomnGIbo0QHGqpQ5&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAjg8#v=onepage&q=capital%20of%20france%20%2B%20versailles&f=false ''The Republic of Letters,'' p. 24]; excerpt, "Even as Louis XIV moved the capital of France to Versailles, Paris was becoming the capital of a new Republic of Letters...."</ref>
*[[Bourges]] (1422–1444) [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]] was forced to flee from Paris.
*[[Tours]] (1444—1527) [[Louis XI of France|Louis XI]] made [[château de Plessis-lez-Tours]] his residence.
*Paris (1528—1588) [[Francis I of France|Francis I]] had established his court in Paris
*Tours (1589—1594) faction of parliamentarians, faithful to the king was sitting at Tours.
▲*Paris (1425–16821594—1661)
*Paris (1661-1682) Paris is the official capital, but Louis XIV disputed that Versalles will be the politic centre.
*[[Versailles, Yvelines|Versailles]] (1682–1715) In 1682, [[Louis XIV]] made Versailles his residence.
*Paris (1715–1722)
*Versailles (1722–1789) On October 5 and 6, 1789, a throng from Paris invaded the castle and forced the royal family to move back to Paris. The [[National Constituent Assembly (France)|National Constituent Assembly]] followed the king to Paris soon afterward, and Versailles lost its role of capital city.
*Versailles (1722–1789)
*Paris (1789–1871)
*Versailles (1871–1879) The [[French Third Republic]] established Versailles as its seat of government in March 1871 after the [[Paris Commune]] took control of Paris.
*Versailles (1871–1879)<ref>Alden, Henry Mills. (1872). [http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=capital+of+france+%2B+Troyes&btnG=#q=capital+of+france+%2B+versailles&hl=en&tbo=1&tbm=bks&ei=i-3PTuymFKbX0QGj-4Ub&start=50&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=3fa79b40380ca6a5&biw=1024&bih=629 ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine,'' Vol. 45, p. 223]; Smith, Benjamin Eli. (1918). [http://books.google.com/books?id=aYIhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1034&dq=capital+of+france+%2B+versailles&hl=en&ei=s-3PTu7iCcb40gGaod0M&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDgQ6AEwATgy#v=onepage&q=capital%20of%20france%20%2B%20versailles&f=false ''The Century Cyclopedia of Names,'' Vol. 6, p. 1034.]</ref>
*Paris (1879–19401879–1914, 1914-1940)
*[[Bordeaux]] (September 1914) The French government was relocated from Paris to Bordeaux very briefly during [[World War I]], when it was feared that Paris would soon fall into German hands. These fears were alleviated after the German Army was pushed back at the [[First Battle of the Marne]]
*[[Bordeaux]] (September 1914)
*Tours (10–13 June 1940) Tours served as the temporary capital of France during the [[Second World War]] after the government fled Paris due to the German advance.
*[[Tours]] (10–13 June 1940)
*Bordeaux (June 1940) The French government was relocated from Paris to Tours then Bordeaux very briefly during World War II, when it became apparent that Paris would soon fall into German hands.
*Bordeaux (June 1940)
*[[Vichy]] (1940-1944) The Parliament abolished the French Third Republic here and replaced it with the [[Vichy France|French State]].
*[[Vichy]] (1940-1944)<ref>Vinen, Richard. (2007). [http://books.google.com/books?id=6sRSyR9CvYcC&pg=PA45&dq=v ''The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation,'' p. 45.]</ref>
*Paris (1944–present) With the liberation of Paris in 1944, [[Charles de Gaulle]] established the [[Provisional Government of the French Republic]], restoring Paris as the French capital.
*Paris (1944-present)
 
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