Frémont, John. 1813-90. US pioneer, Governor of CA, First senator 1856. First Republican Presidential candidate.

French-Austrian War. 1494-1529.

French East India Company. 1664-1770. To protect French trade interests in India.

French Revolution. 1789-99. Monarchy overthrown. Republic established 1792. Caused by Absolutism, financial crisis, Enlightenment. Terror. Napoleon. French Revolutionary Wars.

French Revolution. 1830. After Charles X’s repressive Four Ordinances of St Cloud.

French West Africa. 1895-1958. Dahomey, Guinea, Mali, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Burkino Faso.

Frescobaldi, Girolamo. 1583-1643. Italian organist, instrumental composer. Bold chromaticism.

Fresnel, Augustin. 1788-1827. French physicist, wave theory of light 1815. Fresnel lens 1820.

Freud, Sigmund. 1856-1939. Austrian founder of Psychoanalysis. Sexually oriented guilt. First to divide mind into conscious and subconscious. Studies in Hysteria 1895. Interpretation of Dreams 1899.

Friedman, Milton. 1912-. Monetarist economist. Demand is mainly a function of money supply. Keynes. Laissez-faire. Capitalism and Freedom 1962.

Frobisher, Martin. 1535-94. British navigator in search of North-West passage 1576.

Froebel, Friedrich. 1782-1852. German kindergarten 1841. Creativity, personal development, social adjustment.

Fromm, Erich. 1900-80. German/US psychoanalyst. Man for Himself 1947. The Sane Society 1955.

Frontier. Moving US boundary between developed east and unsettled west. Opportunity for adventureres, explorers, pioneers.

Frost, Robert. 1874-1963. American New England poet. Stopping by Woods 1923.

Fry, Christopher. 1907-. English dramatist: Lady’s not for Burning 1948. Venus Observed. Ben Hur 1959.

Fuchs, Klaus. 1911-88. German/British nuclear physicist. Communist spy 1943-50.

Fuchs, Leonhard. 1501-66. German naturalist. Compendium of medicinal plants. Historia Stirpium 1542.

Fujiwara. 9-12C. Japanese dynasty.

Fuller, R. Buckminster. 1895-1983. US engineer/philosopher. Geodesic Dome.

Fulton, Robert. 1765-1815. US engineer: steam boat Clermont, 1807. Submarine, 1801.

Functionalism. 1924-45. Architectural movement of Le Corbusier. Austere objects perfected to carry out their function.

Fundamentalism. 1920-. US conservative Protestant movement. Strict scriptural interpretation.

Furetière, Antoine. 1619-88. French satirist/lexicographer. Nouvelle Allégorique 1658. Universal Dictionary 1684.

Fürstenbund. “League of Princes” 1785. Prussian-led association of German states vs Joseph II.

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