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The French are a blue civilization in Civilization II. They are led by Louis XIV (male) and Joan of Arc (female), following an Aggressive, Expansionist, Civilized personality.

Overview[]

Color[]

The French are a blue civilization, and act third in turn order. A game including the French will not involve the Germans or Vikings.

Leaders[]

The default French male leader is Louis XIV (1638–1715), Bourbon king of France from his infancy until his seventies. During his reign, he curtailed lingering aristocratic and Protestant power in France. He placed his grandson Philip on the Spanish throne, but at the cost of some colonies and Philip's ability to inherit France as well.

The default female leader is Joan of Arc (c. 1412–1431), a French peasant girl who—inspired by religious visions—rallied Armagnac morale against English and Burgundian domination during the Hundred Years' War.

Titles[]

French leaders feature two unique government titles: a Fundamentalism Fundamentalist is an "Archbishop", and a Democracy Democrat is a "Premier".

Personality[]

The French AI is Aggressive, Expansionist, and Civilized: it will act belligerently in diplomacy and prefer to settle many cities, while prioritizing civic advances for research.

City names[]

  • Avignon
  • Besancon
  • Rouen
  • Grenoble
  • Dijon
  • Amiens
  • Cherbourg
  • Poitiers
  • Toulouse
  • Bayonne
  • Strasbourg
  • Brest
  • Bordeaux

Paris, Orleans, and Lyons are the contemporary equivalents of Lutetia, Aurelianorum, and Lugdunum in the Roman city list.

Scenarios[]

France (or its historical predecessors) features in the original scenarios provided with Civilization II:

Modding[]

The French are defined at Line 10 of the @LEADERS section of Rules.txt. Leader portraits are stored in Images 20 (GIFS/229) (male) and 41 (GIFS/250) (female) in mk.dll; their herald file is HRLDFRE.AVI.

Bugs[]

The mk.dll file in the Multiplayer Gold Edition and Civilization II: Test of Time erroneously replaces the French leader portraits with duplicate images of the Greek leaders. A third-party patch is available for MGE[1] and ToT[2], and is incorporated in the Civilization II MGE User Interface Additions mod.

See also[]

Civilization II Civilizations [edit]

AmericanArabian1AztecBabylonianCarthaginianCelticChineseEgyptianEnglishFrenchGermanGreekIncan1IndianJapaneseMongolPersianRomanRussianSiouxSpanishVikingZulu

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