République Française (France)

Embrasse-Moi

Nation: The French Republic, République Française
Name: Francis Bonnefoy
Gender: Male
Appearance Age: 26
Actual Age:
-Kingdom of Franks 486 (Unification by Clovis)
-Kingdom of France 843 (Treaty of Verdun)
-Republic of France 1792 (National Convention)
-Current constitution 4 October 1958 (5th Republic)

Appearance

Hair Color: Golden blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 130 lbs

Appearance:
Tall and lean, Francis is far from being built to fight and is far more in favour of being a lover. Even if he is only an inch taller than Arthur, he holds himself differently enough that the difference appears much more so. It likely helps his case that he prefers shoes with a slight heel to them, though not enough to be noticeable.
He has long, flowing, light golden blonde hair that hangs down to fall gracefully on his shoulders, curling only slightly at the ends of it. Making sure to take care of his hair is top among his hygiene regime, and he washes it with a natural blend shampoo that he’s crafted himself over the years. Francis is a man who dresses in high-end clothes with far more regularity than his personal budget should allow, and he attends fashion week every chance he has to keep up with the newest trends and styles.

Defining Features:
Francis considers himself quite handsome, and prefers to keep his body in the state of perfection it’s already at. He has no tattoos, and only his ears pierced. His nose may be slightly crooked, but if asked he will refer to it as distinguished, and the small scars he has from numerous battles simply “add character”. The most noticeable mark is the thin white line that circles his neck, a leftover from when he was subjected to the guillotine during the Reign of Terror.

Who Am I?

Personality:
If ever there was a person whom could be called a romantic, it would certainly be Francis. He likes to shift with the motion of the conversation, though with him it always tends to lead back to perverted ideas and suggestions far too easily. Outside of that, however, he is an optimist in general, a realist in war, and a pessimist when it comes to cooking from the United Kingdom.
Francis loves to tease with both body and words, both in the bedroom or out of it. The workings of the human mind of interest to him and as such, he loves getting acquainted with his citizens and making friends, and will resort to sitting quietly and people-watching to sate his curiosity sometimes. Although he has the capability to be cruel in times where it’s necessary, he far prefers being kind and wearing a smile.

Likes:

• Fine Cuisine
  
• Love and Romance
  
• Sleeping in
  
• Life
  
• Wine
  
• People watching
  
• His pet birds, all named Pierre

Dislikes:

• Getting to be an old man
  
• England! (maybe)
  
• Hard work
  
• Needing his glasses to read

Fears:

• England’s cooking
  
• Hungary’s frying pan
  
• Invasions
  
• Being conquered/ dissolved
  
• Disappearing

Fun Facts:

• Francis ships fellow nations together, particularly Germany and Italy.
  
• France once tried to pass on his title of “world authority on horniness” to England.
  
• He refuses to give up the Italian paintings hanging in his various art galleries.
  
• He too has seen England’s faeries… but refuses to believe it.

Strengths:

• The Arts
  
• Spreading rumours
  
• Seduction and using his body to get what he wants
  
• Going on strike
  
• Taking compliments at face value, even if it’s just lip service

Weaknesses:

• Languages outside of French
  
• His adoring fans
  
• Jeanne D’Arc
  
• He secretly does care for his fellow nations, and hates causing harm or harm befalling even the nations he supposedly hates.
  
• Military and Economic problems

Your History

Middle Ages
637: Dagobert I, last Mervingian king
732: Charles Martel defeats Muslims at Poitiers, stopping Arab invasion
751: Pepin II "The Short" becomes king of the Franks
755: Franks protect the church against Lombards and create the Papal States
768-814: Charlemagne rules as King of the Franks
800: Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III
814-40: Louis the Pious succeeds Charlemagne as emperor
843: Treaty of Verdun partitions the Carolingian Empire
870: Treaty of Mersen allows eastern and western Frankish kingdoms to absorb the fragmented middle lands
987: Hugh Capet starts Capetian dynasty
1066: William of Normandy invades England; Battle of Hastings

13th Century
1200: University of Paris starts messenger service
1202: Fourth Crusade launched; crusaders capture Constantinople
1209: Pope Innocent III launches the Albigensian Crusade in southern France

14th Century
1305-1378: The Avignon Papacy
1337-1443: Hundred Years' War

15th Century
1337-1443: Hundred Years' War
1453: English out of France except for Calais
1464: King of France establishes postal system
1494-1559: Italian Wars- France and Austria fight over Italian territories

16th Century
1515: François I crowned King
1547-59: Reign of Henry II
1562-98: The Wars of Religion
1572: Massacre of Protestants on St. Bartholomew's Eve in Paris
1589-1593: Henri IV becomes 1st Bourbon King and converts to Catholicism, ending Wars of Religion

17th Century
1608: Founding of Quebec
1617: Louis XIII crowned at the age of 17
1624: Cardinal Richelieu becomes principal minister
1631: A French newspaper carries classified ads
1643-1715: Louis XIV becomes king with Mazarin as principal minister
1682: Royal court moves to Versailles
1685: Louis revokes the Edict of Nantes

18th Century
1715: Louis XIV dies and Louis XV accedes
1762: Rousseau's Social Contract
1769: Napoleon Bonaparte born in Ajaccio, Corsica
1774: Louis XVI becomes king
1778-83: The kingdom supports the American Revolution
1789: French Revolution, storming of La Bastille
1792: Louis XVI tried for treason and convicted; monarchy abolished
1793: Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette are guillotined in Paris
1794: Robespierre overthrown and end of Reign of Terror
1796: Napoleon weds Rose de Beauharnais (the future Empress Joséphine)
1799: Robert in France invents a paper-making machine
1799: French soldiers discover the Rosetta Stone
1799: General Bonaparte enters Paris

19th Century
1801: Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents a loom using punch cards
1803-15: Napoleonic Wars expand the Empire
1804: Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor Napoleon I
1808: Napoleon Commercial Code goes into effect, standardizing commercial practices throughout the French Empire
1809: The baccalaureate examination is established
1814: Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba
1814–24: Reign of Louis XVIII
1814: Congress of Vienna begins to remake Europe after the downfall of Napoleon
1815: Napoleon enters Paris, the beginning of the "100 Days"
1815: Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
1815: Napoleon is deported to Santa Helena, an island off the coast of Africa
1824–30: Reign of Charles X
1830-48: Reign of Louis Philippe
1852: Napoleon I's nephew crowned as Emperor Napoleon III
1853: Haussman redesigns Paris
1854: Bourseul in France builds an experimental telephone
1870-71: Franco-Prussian War
1871: Third Republic
1889: Eiffel Tower built
1895: Lumière brothers build a portable movie camera.
1895: Paris audience sees movies projected. (Leaving the Lumière Factories - Dec. 28, 1895)
1898-1906: The Dreyfus Affair - anti-semitic French army

20th Century
1905: CharlesPathé colors black and white films by machine.
1907: Lumière brothers invent still color photography process.

WWI
August 3, 1914: Germany declares war on France.
October 19, 1914: Battle of Ypres begins.
December 24, 1914: The unofficial Christmas truce is declared.
February 19, 1915: The Dardanelles Campaign begins.
April 22, 1915: The Second Battle of Ypres begins.
February 21, 1916: The Battle of Verdun begins.
July 1, 1916: The Battle of the Somme begins.
July 31, 1917: The Battle of Passchendaele (also known as the Third Battle of Ypres) begins.
July 15, 1918: The Second Battle of the Marne begins.
November 11, 1918: Germany signs the armistice at Compiegne, France.
1919: Versailles Treaty
1929-39: The Depression

WWII
September 3, 1939: Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.
May 10, 1940: Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
May 15, 1940: Holland surrenders to the Nazis.
May 26, 1940: Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk begins.
June 3, 1940: Germans bomb Paris; Dunkirk evacuation ends.
June 10, 1940: Norway surrenders to the Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France.
June 14, 1940: Germans enter Paris.
June 16, 1940: Marshal Pétain becomes French Prime Minister.
June 22, 1940: France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany.
June 23, 1940: Hitler tours Paris.
June 28, 1940: Britain recognizes General Charles de Gaulle as the Free French leader.
July 5, 1940: French Vichy government breaks off relations with Britain.
November 11, 1942: Germans and Italians invade unoccupied Vichy France.
June 6, 1944: D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.
June 10, 1944: Nazis liquidate the town of Oradour-sur-Glane in France.
June 27, 1944: U.S. troops liberate Cherbourg, France.
July 3, 1944: 'Battle of the Hedgerows' in Normandy; Soviets capture Minsk.
July 9, 1944: British and Canadian troops capture Caen, France.
July 18, 1944: U.S. troops reach St. Lô, France.
August 15, 1944: Operation Dragoon begins (the Allied invasion of Southern France).
August 19, 1944: Resistance uprising in Paris.
August 20, 1944: Allies encircle Germans in the Falaise Pocket.
August 25, 1944: Liberation of Paris.
September 1-4, 1944: Verdun, Dieppe, Artois, Rouen, Abbeville, Antwerp and Brussels liberated by Allies.
November 20, 1944: French troops drive through the 'Beffort Gap' to reach the Rhine.
November 24, 1944: French capture Strasbourg.
March 7, 1945: Allies take Cologne and establish a bridge across the Rhine at Remagen.
May 7, 1945: Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies.
May 8, 1945: V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.
July 1, 1945: American, British, and French troops move into Berlin.
October 24, 1945: United Nations is born.

1946-54: War in Indochina
1954-58: War of Algeria
1958: De Gaulle initiates 5th Republic
1968: General strikes and students' riots in Paris

Sample Post

October 1793, Paris.

A cool, crisp fall breeze filled the streets of Paris, knocking the hats off a few unfortunate ladies, and stirring ever slightly the crowd that had gathered at the formerly named Place Louis XV. Currently the street corner had been renamed to the more suiting Place de la Revolution by the people of France, and a tall, ominous structure took centre stage in both the street and in the news of his country.

It was an excellent piece of workmanship, Francis had to agree. Two tall wooden pillars supported a pulley system with a heavy and sharpened blade dangling at the top, the wind seeming to threaten its early fall with every gust. Beautiful and deadly; exactly what the machine had been designed to be, and it fell men in a single swoop of the blade. War had been asking for a treasure like this for years, torture machines falling out of favour in want of an easier and more humane way to execute a person. This machine had been what was presented in its stead.

But as new as it was to the country of France, already the machine had gotten its fair use. In little over a year’s worth of use the machine had already been used to murder hundreds of people, many on suspicious claims and unsupported facts. The monarchy itself had fallen and been put to death at the razor’s edge, his King and Queen having met their fates mere months before now.

Francis gasped as he was wrenched from his thoughts and shoved forward roughly; the voices of the crowd suddenly escalating to a fevered pitch as the tricoteuse that had stolen front row seats for today’s show encouraged the crowd’s excitement. Nothing of the past few days had felt real yet, having been accused by his own people of ‘crimes against liberty’ and given an appointment with Madame Guillotine himself. His hair was dirty and matted from sleeping on a cell floor, and arms sore from the shackles that kept his hands behind his back. No matter how many times he tried to convince his people of who he was, none would listen. He had been found guilty of associating with the monarchy and supporting it, and couldn’t prove that he hadn’t as that had been exactly his job up until now. He was the representative of the nation, and any government in place was his government, to be cared for and watched, to have their orders followed.

<<Please, you must believe me!>> he begs to the strong man pushing him towards the wooden steps of the platform. <<I am not who you think I am. I may have associated with them, but I am on your side! The people of France are my main concern!>> His voice cracks in his throat as the man behind him warns that no more nonsense would be allowed. Francis gasps as a strong hand clasps around his arm and yanks him up onto the platform, pushing him down again to the bench of the machine.

Francis could feel his heart in his throat as the realization that he didn’t know if he would survive this or not dawned upon him. With no government to keep him strong at the moment, this could very well signal the end of France as a country. It’s with that though he chokes back a sob and tries to fight, even as his head is locked into place. <<Please I can help-!>>

It’s too late to protest further though, as the heavy blade drops with a resounding thud.




Many long hours later, the blackness finally recedes from his memories and leaves Francis blinking at the familiar ceiling of his bedroom. He sighs gently in relief, covering his eyes with the palms of his hands and letting himself sob, thanking God that his country would be alright.

The Player

Name: Christie
Age: 23
Fun Fact: I am an animator, which means I make myself go crazy in favour of making fictional people move.