When Pierre François Lhortet was born on 12 June 1764, in Cluses, Haute-Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France, his father, Antoine Lhortet, was 32 and his mother, Marie Jaqueline Aimée Gathier, was 25.
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After the battle of Saratoga France realized that America might be worth backing. They formed an alliance with the colonies and sent naval fleets to help with the war.
While Benjamin Franklin was the ambassador to France he negotiated with the French during the war to keep them on the American side. At the same time the Treaty of Paris was established.
Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul, then Emperor of the French (1804). Establishment of modern administrative institutions, codification of the law. European wars lead to abdication of the Emperor.
From New Testament Greek. See Peter .
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