Salmon War
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The Salmon War of 1736/37 was a political conflict between the confederate Canton of Basle and the Kingdom of France over fishing rights and the location of their state border in the River Rhine.
Fisherman at the mouth of the Wiese (engraved by Matthäus Merian the Elder, 17th century)
Kingdom of France
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The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period. It was one of the most powerful states in Eu
Louis XIV, a 1701 portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud
The provinces of the Kingdom of France in 1789
Portrait of Louis Philippe I by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1841
The Reims Cathedral, built where Clovis I was baptised by Remigius, functioned as the site for the coronations of the kings of France in the kingdom.