This outline covers the establishment of the House of Bourbon in 1589 to the present French Fifth Republic, established in 1958. Major Bourbon monarchs are listed (with dates), as well as the Bonapartes and the restored Capetians. This handout is more or less a timeline of France's political history over the past 400+ years.

There is space for students to take notes. This outline/timeline is particularly useful for helping students to make sense of the shifting leadership which plagued France in the nineteenth century. Click here to print.