Produced by Marius Masi, Don Kretz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's notes: (1) Numbers following letters (without space) like C2 were originally printed in subscript. Letter subscripts are preceded by an underscore, like C_n. (2) Characters following a carat (^) were printed in superscript. (3) Side-notes were relocated to function as titles of their respective paragraphs. (4) Macrons and breves above letters and dots below letters were not inserted. (5) The following typographical errors have been corrected: ARTICLE France: "The importance of their commercial relations was brought into relief as though it were a new fact." 'commercial' amended from 'commerical'. ARTICLE France: "The revenues of the Carolingian monarch (which are no longer identical with the finances of the state) consisted chiefly in the produce of the royal lands (villae), ..." 'identical' amended from 'indentical'. ARTICLE France: "The most salient features of feudal succession were the right of primogeniture and the preference given to heirs-male ..." 'preference' amended from 'perference'. ARTICLE France: "The law of the 15th of March 1850 established the liberty of secondary education, but it conferred certain privileges on the Catholic clergy, a clear sign of the spirit of social conservatism which was the leading motive for its enactment." 'The' amended from 'Thd'. ARTICLE France: "... on which occasion he exercised his right of dissolution against a chamber, the moderate but decidedly republican majority in which he was re-elected by the country." added 'he'. ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INFORMATION ELEVENTH EDITION VOLUME X, SLICE VIII France to Francis Joseph I. ARTICLES IN THIS SLICE: FRANCE (part) FRANCIS I. (king of France) FRANCESCHI, JEAN BAPTISTE FRANCIS II. (king of France) FRANCESCHI, PIERO DE' FRANCIS I. (king of Sicily) FRANCESCHINI, BALDASSARE FRANCIS II. (king of Sicily) FRANCHE-COMTE FRANCIS IV. FRANCHISE FRANCIS V. FRANCIA FRANCIS OF ASSISI, ST. FRANCIA, JOSE GASPAR RODRIGUEZ FRANCIS OF MAYRONE FRANCIABIGIO FRANCIS OF PAOLA, ST FRANCIS FRANCIS OF SALES, ST FRANCIS I. (Roman emperor) FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP FRANCIS II. (Roman emperor) FRANCIS JOSEPH I. FRANCE (Continued from Volume 10 slice 7). EXTERIOR POLICY 1870-1909 The new epoch.