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What happened to the Jews in France

802 events, 321 AD to 2024 AD

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Timeline

4th century

  1. 321 AD Emperor Constantius compels Jews to serve in the curia · France

5th century

  1. 425 AD Imperial decree bars Jews from law practice and public office in Gaul · France
  2. 425 AD Valentinian III restricts Jews in Gaul and Arles · Arles, France
  3. 465 AD Council of Vannes · Vannes, France
  4. c. 500 AD Loi Gombette bans Jewish-Christian marriage · Burgundy, France

6th century

  1. 506 AD Council of Agda renews ban on clergy dining with Jews · Agde, France
  2. 508 AD Jewish soldier accused of treason and executed at Arles · Arles, France
  3. 517 AD Council of Epaon renews ban on clergy dining with Jews · Epaon (Gaul), France
  4. c. 517 AD Gondebaud decrees harsh penalties for Jews who strike Christians · Burgundy, France
  5. 533 AD Second Council of Orleans bans Jewish-Christian marriages · Orléans, France
  6. 533–538 AD Church councils prohibit Jewish-Christian intermarriage · France
  7. 535 AD First Council of Clermont · Clermont-Ferrand, France
  8. 535–549 AD Councils of Clermont ban Jewish-Christian intermarriage and Jewish magistrates · Clermont-Ferrand, France
  9. 538 AD Third Council of Orleans restricts Jews · Orléans, France
  10. 541 AD Fourth Council of Orleans penalizes Jewish proselytizing and slave-holding · Orléans, France
  11. 558 AD Bishop Ferreol expels Jews from the diocese of Uzès · Uzès, France
  12. 561–584 AD Chilperic imprisons Priscus for refusing conversion · Paris, France
  13. 561–584 AD Chilperic's attempt to force Jews to convert · Soissons, France
  14. 561–584 AD Merovingian-backed pressure to convert the Jews of Arles · Arles, France
  15. 576 AD Bishop Avitus forces Clermont Jews to convert or leave · Clermont-Ferrand, France
  16. 576 AD Forced baptism of Jews by Bishop Avitus in Clermont · Clermont-Ferrand, France
  17. 576 AD Synagogue of Clermont razed by mob · Clermont-Ferrand, France
  18. c. 580 AD Murder of Jewish tax-gatherer Amantius at Tours · Tours, France
  19. 581 AD Council of Mâcon bars Jews from judge and tax-collector posts · Mâcon, France
  20. 581 AD Council of Mâcon orders Christian slaves of Jews ransomed · Mâcon, France
  21. 582 AD Chilperic forces Jews to be baptized · France
  22. 589 AD Council of Narbonne bans psalm-singing at burials · Narbonne, France
  23. 591 AD Bishop Theodore's attempt to convert Marseille Jews by force · Marseille, France

7th century

  1. 614 AD Clotaire II legalizes Church canon on the Jews · France
  2. 614 AD Fifth Council of Paris denies Jews authority over Christians · Paris, France
  3. c. 614–615 AD Council of Paris orders Jewish officeholders to convert · Paris, France
  4. 624–625 AD Council of Rheims renews bar on Jewish authority over Christians · Reims, France
  5. 624–647 AD Bishop Sulpicius expels resisting Jews from Bourges · Bourges, France
  6. 629 AD Dagobert offers Jews conversion or exile · Paris, France
  7. 630 AD Council of Chalon forbids Jews to sell slaves abroad · Chalon-sur-Saône, France
  8. 631–639 AD Dagobert I attempts forced conversion of Jews · France
  9. 672 AD Wamba's edict of expulsion of the Jews · Languedoc, France
  10. 673 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Narbonne by King Wamba · Narbonne, France
  11. 673 AD Wamba's edict of expulsion enforced in Septimania · Septimania, France

8th century

  1. c. 800–899 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Sens by Archbishop Anségise · Sens, France

9th century

  1. c. 820 AD Agobard attempts forced conversion of Jewish children in Lyons · Lyon, France
  2. c. 820 AD Agobard's attempt to forcibly convert Jewish children in Chalon · Chalon-sur-Saône, France
  3. 829 AD Royal ban on the Jewish slave traffic · Bordeaux, France
  4. 848 AD Jews accused of betraying Bordeaux to the Normans · Bordeaux, France
  5. c. 876 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Sens · Sens, France
  6. 888 AD Anti-Jewish measures in Metz · Metz, France
  7. 899 AD Confiscation of Jewish tithe-bearing property at Narbonne · Narbonne, France

10th century

  1. 996 AD Wax-image accusation against the Jews of Limoges · Limoges, France
  2. c. 1000–1099 AD Jews confined to special quarters in Languedoc · Languedoc, France
  3. c. 1000–1099 AD Orleans Jews accused of causing destruction of Holy Sepulcher · Orléans, France

11th century

  1. c. 1001 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Orléans · Orléans, France
  2. c. 1001–1100 AD Eleventh-century persecutions affect the Jews of Béziers · Béziers, France
  3. c. 1007–1009 AD Persecutions of Rouen Jewry under Duke Richard · Rouen, France
  4. 1007–1012 AD General persecution of the Jews of France · France
  5. 1010 AD Bishop of Limoges offers Jews baptism or exile · Limoges, France
  6. 1010 AD Expulsion of Jews from Limoges · Limoges, France
  7. 1020 AD Good Friday public slapping of a Jew in Toulouse · Toulouse, France
  8. c. 1023 AD Decreed extermination of Jews refusing baptism under Robert the Pious · France
  9. 1026 AD Expulsion of Jews from Limoges · Limoges, France
  10. 1063 AD Persecution of Jews in southern France by Spanish crusaders · Southern France, France
  11. c. 1065 AD Crusaders massacre Jews on route against the Moors of Spain · Narbonne, France
  12. 1095 AD Bishop Bernard bans Jewish-Christian marriages in Lodève · Lodève, France
  13. 1095 AD Burning of Jews of Strasburg during the First Crusade · Strasbourg, France
  14. 1096 AD Massacre of Jews at Metz · Metz, France
  15. c. 1100 AD Ear-boxing replaced by tax and wax tribute · Toulouse, France
  16. c. 1100 AD Toulouse ear-boxing of a Jew replaced by payment · Toulouse, France

12th century

  1. 1141 AD Easter and Christmas tributes imposed on the Jews of Tours · Tours, France
  2. 1143 AD 150 Jews killed in Ham, France · Ham, France
  3. 1143 AD Violence against Jews in Ham, Somme · Ham, France
  4. 1144 AD Louis VII banishes relapsed converts · France
  5. 1146 AD Louis VII permits Jews to return to Sens · Sens, France
  6. 1146 AD Violence against Jews during the Second Crusade · Strasbourg, France
  7. 1147 AD Second Crusade persecution of Jews in France · France
  8. 1147–1149 AD Financial levy on Jews during the Second Crusade · France
  9. c. 1150 AD Poll-tax imposed on Jews by the archbishop · Bordeaux, France
  10. 1160 AD Bishop abolishes stone-throwing at Jews in Béziers · Béziers, France
  11. c. 1163 AD Ritual murder accusation at Pontoise · Pontoise, France
  12. 1163 AD Spanish crusaders attack Jews of Narbonne · Narbonne, France
  13. c. 1170 AD Ritual murder accusations at Epernay and Janville · Épernay, France
  14. 1171 AD Blois blood libel · Blois, France
  15. 1171 AD Blood libel reaches the Paris region · Île-de-France, France
  16. 1171 AD Persecution of the Jews of Blois · Blois, France
  17. 1177 AD Jews burned in Paris for the murder of St. William · Paris, France
  18. 1179 AD Blood libel at Blois · Blois, France
  19. c. 1179 AD Ritual murder accusation against the Jews of Pontoise · Pontoise, France
  20. 1179 AD Ritual murder accusation over "William" · Paris, France
  21. 1181 AD Expulsion of Jews from Paris · Paris, France
  22. 1181 AD Philip Augustus arrests and despoils the Jews · France
  23. 1181 AD Philip Augustus banishes the Jews · France
  24. 1181 AD Philip Augustus cancels Christian debts to Jews · France
  25. 1181 AD Philip Augustus imprisons wealthy Jews of Paris for ransom · Paris, France
  26. 1182 AD Expulsion of Jews from France (1182) · France
  27. 1182 AD Philip Augustus expels the Jews from the kingdom · France
  28. 1182 AD Philip Augustus expels the Jews of Orleans · Orléans, France
  29. 1182 AD Violence against Jews in Orléans · Orléans, France
  30. 1183 AD Paris synagogues turned into churches · Paris, France
  31. c. 1189–1190 AD Persecution of Strasbourg Jews during the Third Crusade · Strasbourg, France
  32. 1190 AD Crucifixion libel at Bray-sur-Seine · Bray-sur-Seine, France
  33. 1190 AD Destruction of a Jewish community in Champagne · Bray-sur-Seine, France
  34. 1191 AD Violence against Jews in Bray-sur-Seine · Bray-sur-Seine, France
  35. 1198 AD Philip Augustus permits Jews to return · France
  36. 1198 AD Philip Augustus readmits the Jews to his kingdom · France
  37. 1198 AD Philip Augustus recalls the Jews to Paris · Paris, France
  38. 1198 AD Treaty between king and Count of Champagne restricting Jews · Champagne, France
  39. c. 1200 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Carpentras · Carpentras, France
  40. c. 1200 AD Jews barred from public office in Languedoc · Languedoc, France

13th century

  1. 1202 AD Special taxes imposed on the Jews of Corbeil · Corbeil-Essonnes, France
  2. 1204 AD Jewish notables imprisoned in the Châtelet of Paris · Paris, France
  3. 1209 AD Council of Avignon restricts the Jews · Avignon, France
  4. 1209 AD Council of Saint-Gilles bars Jews from public office · Saint-Gilles, France
  5. 1209 AD Massacre of Béziers during the Albigensian Crusade · Béziers, France
  6. 1209 AD Oath at St. Gilles barring Jews from public offices · Toulouse, France
  7. 1210 AD Count Hervé of Nevers promises not to retain fleeing royal Jews · Nevers, France
  8. 1214–1219 AD Usury forbidden to the Jews · Bordeaux, France
  9. 1215 AD Lateran Council prescribes Jewish badge, enforced in Carcassonne · Carcassonne, France
  10. 1217 AD Papal legate orders Jews of southern France to wear the wheel · Southern France, France
  11. 1218 AD Royal decree restricts Jewish interest rates · France
  12. 1219 AD Philip Augustus orders Jews to wear the badge · France
  13. 1220 AD Collective liability decree after murder of a Jew of Bernai · Falaise, France
  14. 1223 AD Louis VIII's Etablissement sur les Juifs · France
  15. 1224 AD Countess Mahaut ratifies Louis VIII's restrictive ordinance on Jews · Nevers, France
  16. 1227 AD Council of Narbonne orders the wheel badge in France · France
  17. 1227–1234 AD Jewish badge imposed by church councils in southern France · Languedoc, France
  18. 1228 AD Church convocation restricts Bible paraphrase and interest · Perpignan, France
  19. 1228 AD James I bars Jews from public office and Christian servants · Perpignan, France
  20. 1228 AD James I restricts Jews' offices, servants and interest rates · Roussillon, France
  21. 1230 AD Melun assembly bans Jewish loans · Melun, France
  22. 1234 AD Louis IX cancels one third of debts owed to Jews · France
  23. c. 1234–1235 AD Burning of Maimonides' books at Montpellier · Montpellier, France
  24. 1235 AD Crusaders massacre Jews of Nantes · Nantes, France
  25. 1236 AD Crusader massacres of Jews in Anjou · Anjou, France
  26. 1236 AD Crusaders persecute the Jews of Poitou · Poitou, France
  27. 1236 AD Massacre of Jews in Brittany by Crusaders · Brittany, France
  28. 1236 AD Riot and pillaging of the Jews of Narbonne · Narbonne, France
  29. 1239 AD Council of Tours bars Jews from testifying in lawsuits · Tours, France
  30. 1239 AD Gregory IX orders Hebrew books seized; Talmud burned · France
  31. 1240 AD Disputation of Paris · Paris, France
  32. 1240 AD Expulsion of Jews from Brittany · Brittany, France
  33. 1240 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Nantes · Nantes, France
  34. 1240 AD Paris Talmud disputation and burning of Hebrew books · Paris, France
  35. 1240 AD Paris disputation on the Talmud · Paris, France
  36. 1240 AD Seizure of all copies of the Talmud in France · France
  37. 1242 AD Burning of the Talmud in Paris · Paris, France
  38. 1242 AD Raymond VII grants Jews right to dispose of property with taxes · Toulouse, France
  39. 1242 AD Talmud burned in Paris · Paris, France
  40. 1244 AD Burning of the Talmud in Paris · Paris, France
  41. 1244 AD Innocent IV orders new confiscation of the Talmud · France
  42. 1245 AD Council of Lyons orders Jewish badge in Besançon diocese · Besançon, France
  43. 1246 AD Council of Béziers bans Jews from practising medicine · Béziers, France
  44. 1246 AD Louis IX orders Carcassonne Jews imprisoned until ransom paid · Carcassonne, France
  45. 1247 AD Accusation of using a child's heart in Passover communion · Germany and elsewhere
  46. 1247 AD Imprisonment and despoiling of Jews in Dauphiné nobles' estates · Dauphiné, France
  47. 1247 AD Imprisonment of Jews and confiscation of property by constable of Valence · Valence, France
  48. 1247 AD Ritual murder accusation against Jews of Valréas · Valréas, France
  49. 1248 AD Council of Valence bans relations between Christians and Jews · Valence, France
  50. 1248 AD Second condemnation of the Talmud · France
  51. 1249 AD Alphonse of Poitiers orders expulsion of the Jews from Poitou · Poitou, France
  52. 1249 AD Expulsion of Jews from Poitiers · Poitiers, France
  53. 1249 AD Expulsion of the Jews from La Rochelle · La Rochelle, France
  54. 1249 AD La Rochelle granted the right to bar Jews · La Rochelle, France
  55. 1249 AD Louis IX orders expulsion of Jews from royal domains · France
  56. 1250 AD Search for prohibited Hebrew books in Agen · Agen, France
  57. 1251 AD Jews of Perpignan confined to the Call quarter · Perpignan, France
  58. 1253 AD Expulsion of Jews from Dauphiné authorized · Dauphiné, France
  59. 1253 AD Expulsion of Jews from Vienne, France · Vienne, France
  60. 1253 AD Louis IX banishes Jews from Carcassonne · Carcassonne, France
  61. 1254 AD Louis IX edict banning Talmudic rites and moneylending · Carcassonne, France
  62. 1254 AD Louis IX expels Jews from France · France
  63. 1257 AD Louis IX confiscates Jewish landed property · France
  64. c. 1260 AD Jews of Weissenburg accused of ritual murder and expelled · Wissembourg (Weissenburg), France
  65. 1260 AD Villefranche-sur-Saône charter bans Jewish residence · Villefranche-sur-Saône, France
  66. 1262 AD Marseille Jews surrendered to the Duke of Anjou as taxable property · Marseille, France
  67. 1263 AD Jewish cemetery given to Cistercians in Montpellier · Montpellier, France
  68. 1267 AD Jews barred from public functions and new synagogues · Poitou, France
  69. 1268 AD Papal bull "Turbato Corde" targets Jewish converts · Southern France, France
  70. 1268 AD Poll-tax and property declaration imposed on Jews · Poitou, France
  71. 1269 AD Badge ordered for Jews by Alphonse of Poitiers · Poitou, France
  72. 1269 AD Charles I of Anjou exacts large sums from Jewish communities · Anjou, France
  73. 1269 AD Jews compelled to hear Paul Christian and show their books · France
  74. 1269 AD Jews compelled to wear the badge · Poitou, France
  75. 1269 AD Royal decree enforcing the Jewish badge in France · France
  76. 1269 AD Saint Louis ordinance imposing the badge on French Jews · France
  77. 1270 AD Alphonse forces Jews to return interest to debtors · Poitou, France
  78. 1270 AD Blood libel charge at Weissenburg · Wissembourg (Weissenburg), France
  79. 1270 AD Inquisition into usury in Poitiers jurisdiction · Poitiers, France
  80. 1271 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Moissac · Moissac, France
  81. 1272 AD Synodal restrictions on Jews by Bishop Bernard of Capendu · Carcassonne, France
  82. 1273 AD Gregory X orders Inquisition to treat relapsed Jews as heretics · Southern France, France
  83. c. 1273 AD Massacre following the Paris disputation · Paris, France
  84. 1276 AD Bishop's agreement imposing vassalage and taxes on Carpentras Jews · Carpentras, France
  85. 1276 AD Inquisition persecution of Provençal Jews (badges, imprisonment, ransom) · Provence, France
  86. 1276 AD Inquisitors enforce larger badge and extort fines from Jews · Marseille, France
  87. 1276 AD Inquisitors enlarge badge and fine Tarascon Jews · Tarascon, France
  88. 1278 AD Inquisition trial of the Jews of Toulouse · Toulouse, France
  89. 1278 AD King forces destruction of bishop's new synagogue · Béziers, France
  90. 1279 AD Badge permitted as small embroidered wheel at Pamiers · Pamiers, France
  91. 1279 AD Ban on Christian servants and services for Jews · Perpignan, France
  92. 1279 AD Destruction of the Colmar synagogue by fire · Colmar, France
  93. 1280 AD Ban on Jews keeping Christian servants · France
  94. 1281 AD King seizes Jewish cemetery of Toulouse · Toulouse, France
  95. 1283 AD Ban on Jewish residence in small places · France
  96. 1283 AD Ordinance barring synagogue repairs and Talmud copies · France
  97. 1283 AD Philip III bans Jewish residence in small rural localities · France
  98. 1284 AD Nominal expulsion of the Jews from Bordeaux (1284) · Bordeaux, France
  99. 1284 AD Severe anti-Jewish measures adopted by council of Nîmes · Nîmes, France
  100. 1285 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Colmar · Colmar, France
  101. 1285 AD Meïr of Rothenburg held for ransom · Colmar, France
  102. 1285–1309 AD Charles II's restrictive ordinances on Jews of Provence · Aix-en-Provence, France
  103. 1287 AD Expulsion of Jews from Gascony · Gascony, France
  104. 1288 AD Auto da fé at Troyes with execution of Jews · Troyes, France
  105. 1288 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Anjou · Anjou, France
  106. 1288 AD Philip the Fair fines Paris Jews for loud chanting · Paris, France
  107. 1288 AD Ritual murder accusation against the Jews of Troyes · Troyes, France
  108. 1288 AD Ritual murder libel and killing of forty Jews in Alsace · Alsace, France
  109. 1289 AD Council of Vienne imposes yellow badge and servant ban · Dauphiné, France
  110. 1289 AD Expulsion of Jews from Gascony · Gascony, France
  111. 1289 AD Expulsion of Jews from Maine · Maine, France
  112. c. 1290 AD Bishop fines Jewish community over Purim games · Marseille, France
  113. 1290 AD Jonathas accused of host desecration and burned · Paris, France
  114. 1290 AD Philip the Fair acts against Jews with tax exemption letters · Toulouse, France
  115. 1290–1292 AD Heavy taxation under Philip the Fair drives Jews from Carcassonne · Carcassonne, France
  116. 1291 AD Ban on settlement of Jews expelled from Gascony and England · France
  117. 1291 AD Expulsion of Jews recently arrived from England · Carcassonne, France
  118. 1291 AD Expulsion order against Jews of Poitiers canceled for payment · Poitiers, France
  119. 1292 AD Extra tax on the Jews under Philip the Fair · France
  120. 1292 AD Ritual murder accusation and riot in Colmar · Colmar, France
  121. 1294 AD Charles II reintroduces anti-Jewish measures in Provence · Provence, France
  122. 1294 AD Compulsory Jewish quarters in the kingdom of France · France
  123. 1294 AD Expulsion of the Jews from the county of Nevers · Nevers, France
  124. 1294 AD Residence in Jewish quarters made obligatory · Paris, France
  125. 1295 AD Jews forbidden to go out without cloaks · Perpignan, France
  126. 1295 AD Philip the Fair arrests the Jews and inventories their goods · France
  127. 1296 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Poitou · Poitou, France
  128. 1296 AD Jew of Sulzmatt hanged by the feet · Soultzmatt (Sulzmatt), France
  129. 1296 AD Philip the Fair gives a Jew of Pontoise and his children to Charles of Valois · Pontoise, France
  130. 1298–1299 AD Royal tax levied on the Jews of Auvergne · Auvergne, France
  131. 1299 AD Jew murdered at Ensisheim · Ensisheim, France
  132. 1299 AD New tax on Jews and renewal of the edict of 1230 · France
  133. 1299 AD Philip the Fair allows imprisonment of Jews at Inquisitors' request · Southern France, France
  134. c. 1299 AD Philip the Fair imposes the recepta tax and badge exemption fee · Paris, France
  135. 1300 AD Ban on Jewish settlement in Trévoux charter · Trévoux, France
  136. 1300 AD Tax imposed on the Jews of Savoy (1300) · Chambéry, France
  137. c. 1300–1399 AD Discriminatory laws against the Jews of Orange · Orange, France

14th century

  1. 1303 AD Further tax imposed on the Jews · France
  2. 1304 AD Carcassonne Jews made to pay local taxes · Carcassonne, France
  3. 1304–1394 AD Jews readmitted to France · France
  4. 1305 AD Nominal expulsion of the Jews from Bordeaux (1305) · Bordeaux, France
  5. 1306 AD Arrests and forced baptisms of Toulouse Jews; confiscations · Toulouse, France
  6. 1306 AD Confiscation and sale of Jewish property in Orleans · Orléans, France
  7. 1306 AD Confiscation of Dijon Jewish cemetery after expulsion from France · Dijon, France
  8. 1306 AD Confiscation of the Jewish cemetery and property at Tours · Tours, France
  9. 1306 AD Dauphin Humbert I admits Jews expelled from France · Dauphiné, France
  10. 1306 AD Expulsion of Jews from Castelsarrasin, France · Castelsarrasin, France
  11. 1306 AD Expulsion of Jews from Languedoc · Languedoc, France
  12. 1306 AD Expulsion of Jews from Sens, Yonne · Sens, France
  13. 1306 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Béziers · Béziers, France
  14. 1306 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Champagne · Champagne, France
  15. 1306 AD Expulsion of the Jews from France · France
  16. 1306 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Milhaud · Milhaud, France
  17. 1306 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Montpellier · Montpellier, France
  18. 1306 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Nîmes · Nîmes, France
  19. 1306 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Pamiers · Pamiers, France
  20. 1306 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Provins · Provins, France
  21. 1306 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Senlis · Senlis, France
  22. 1306 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Troyes · Troyes, France
  23. 1306 AD Expulsion of the Jews from the duchy of Burgundy · Baigneux-les-Juifs, France
  24. 1306 AD Fiscal vexations of Provence Jews during French expulsion · Provence, France
  25. 1306 AD Jewish quarter of Tours given to the archbishop and clergy · Tours, France
  26. 1306 AD Sale of the Jewish cemetery of Villefranche · Montpellier, France
  27. 1306–1309 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Narbonne by Philip the Fair · Narbonne, France
  28. 1306–1310 AD Confiscation and sale of the Toulouse synagogue · Toulouse, France
  29. 1306–1315 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Tours · Tours, France
  30. 1308 AD Ban on Jews holding public office in Provence · Provence, France
  31. 1308 AD Charles II bars Jews from public office in Tarascon · Tarascon, France
  32. 1308 AD Jews of Rufach and Sulzmatt imprisoned and burned · Rouffach (Rufach), France
  33. 1309 AD Royal sale of Jewish cemetery in Sens · Sens, France
  34. 1310 AD Confiscated Jewish goods at Mende ceded to the bishop · Mende, France
  35. 1310 AD Convert to Christianity burned at Paris auto da fé · Paris, France
  36. 1310–1311 AD Nominal expulsion of the Jews from Bordeaux (1310–11) · Bordeaux, France
  37. 1311 AD Permanent expulsion of the Jews with safe-conducts · France
  38. 1313 AD Edward II's edict of expulsion · Bordeaux, France
  39. 1314 AD Jewish badge imposed in Roussillon · Roussillon, France
  40. 1314 AD Jews compelled to wear a quoit-shaped badge · Perpignan, France
  41. 1315 AD Jewish community reestablished at Carcassonne under Louis X · Carcassonne, France
  42. 1315 AD Jews permitted to return to Tours · Tours, France
  43. 1315 AD Louis X readmits the Jews to France · France
  44. 1315 AD Return of the Jews to Troyes · Troyes, France
  45. 1315 AD Tax of 2,000 pounds on returning Jews · Toulouse, France
  46. c. 1315–1322 AD Search for Talmud volumes ordered by Bishop Jacques Fournier · Pamiers, France
  47. 1316 AD Louis X authorizes return of Jews to Nevers on restrictive terms · Nevers, France
  48. c. 1316 AD Well-poisoning accusation and exile of Jews of Franche-Comté · Franche-Comté, France
  49. c. 1317 AD Poll tax and seizure of Jewish promissory notes · Perpignan, France
  50. 1317 AD Two Jews of Chinon hanged over child-murder charge · Chinon, France
  51. 1318 AD Synagogue of Château-Thierry broken into · Château-Thierry, France
  52. 1319 AD Arrest of Lunel Jews and seizure of property over crucifix mockery · Lunel, France
  53. 1319 AD Impostors posing as royal agents plunder Jewish homes · France
  54. 1319 AD Jews recalled to Montpellier · Montpellier, France
  55. 1320 AD Jews driven from the environs of Besançon · Besançon, France
  56. 1320 AD Massacre in Castelsarrasin, France · Castelsarrasin, France
  57. 1320 AD Pastoureaux attack on the Jews of Bordeaux · Bordeaux, France
  58. 1320 AD Pastoureaux massacres of Jews in Languedoc · Languedoc, France
  59. 1320 AD Pastoureaux persecute the Jews of Poitou · Poitou, France
  60. c. 1320 AD Pastoureaux persecutions affect Carcassonne community · Carcassonne, France
  61. 1320 AD Philip V taxes the Jews of France · Paris, France
  62. 1320 AD Restrictions imposed on Jews admitted to Besançon · Besançon, France
  63. 1320 AD Shepherds' Crusade (1320) · France
  64. 1320 AD Talmud copies burnt during Pastoureaux persecutions · Perpignan, France
  65. 1320 AD Troyes Jews accused of disturbing church services · Troyes, France
  66. 1320–1323 AD Fine of 100,000 livres on the Jews of France · France
  67. c. 1321 AD Burning of Jews at Chinon · Chinon, France
  68. 1321 AD Burning, exile and confiscation after well-poisoning charge · Paris, France
  69. 1321 AD Expulsion of Jews from France (1321) · France
  70. 1321 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Vesoul · Vesoul, France
  71. 1321 AD Jews of Poitou accused of poisoning wells · Poitou, France
  72. 1321 AD Lepers' plot libel: Jews falsely accused of poisoning wells in France · France
  73. 1321 AD Pastoureaux massacre of Toulouse Jews · Toulouse, France
  74. 1321 AD Persecution of the Jews of Tours in 1321 · Tours, France
  75. 1321 AD Philip V grants Jewish property in Burgundy to the queen · Franche-Comté, France
  76. 1321 AD Philip the Tall expels Jews and seizes their spoils in Burgundy · Besançon, France
  77. 1321 AD Well-poisoning accusation against Paris Jews · Paris, France
  78. 1321 AD Well-poisoning charge and expulsion from Tours and nearby towns · Tours, France
  79. 1322 AD Charles IV expels French Jews without promised notice · Troyes, France
  80. 1322 AD Demolition of the Carpentras synagogue · Carpentras, France
  81. c. 1322 AD Expulsion of Jews from the Comtat-Venaissin by Pope John XXII · Comtat Venaissin, France
  82. 1322 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Carpentras by Pope John XXII · Carpentras, France
  83. 1322 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Pamiers (1322) · Pamiers, France
  84. 1322 AD French royal expulsion order applied to Jews of Franche-Comté · Franche-Comté, France
  85. 1323 AD New expulsion order applied to Jews of Languedoc · France
  86. 1324 AD Confiscation of Jewish property · France
  87. 1331 AD First large-scale anti-Jewish disturbances in Provence · Provence, France
  88. 1335 AD Anti-Jewish riot in Cadenet · Cadenet, France
  89. 1336 AD Jewish cemetery in Sens passes to Celestine monks · Sens, France
  90. 1336–1337 AD Armleder massacres · Bavaria, Germany and elsewhere
  91. 1337 AD Armleder massacre and banishment of Jews of Rappoltsweiler · Ribeauvillé (Rappoltsweiler), France
  92. 1337 AD Armleder massacres of Jews in Alsace · Alsace, France
  93. 1337 AD Jew burned at Strasburg for alleged killing of a girl · Strasbourg, France
  94. 1338 AD Armleder riots in Mulhouse · Mulhouse, France
  95. 1338 AD Jews expelled from the bishopric of Upper Alsace · Alsace, France
  96. 1338 AD Persecutions of Alsace Jewish communities (1338) · Alsace, France
  97. 1338 AD Second massacre of the Jews of Rufach · Rouffach (Rufach), France
  98. 1340 AD Anti-Jewish disturbances in Moustiers and Forcalquiers · Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, France
  99. 1341 AD Attempt to set up compulsory Jewish quarter in Aix · Aix-en-Provence, France
  100. 1341 AD Badge requirement in the statutes of Nice · Nice, France
  101. c. 1341 AD Jews confined to separate quarters in Provence · Provence, France
  102. 1342 AD Clement VI revokes the expulsion edict · Carpentras, France
  103. 1342 AD Edward III authorizes Jewish residence in Bordeaux · Bordeaux, France
  104. 1344 AD Riots after blood accusation against Samson of Reylhane · Aix-en-Provence, France
  105. 1344 AD Riots after blood libel against Samson of Reylhane · Arles, France
  106. 1345 AD Tarascon charter restricts Jewish butchering and work · Tarascon, France
  107. 1346 AD Confiscation, plunder and banishment of Jews of Hagenau · Haguenau, France
  108. 1346 AD Converso Johanan David condemned to the stake · Perpignan, France
  109. 1346 AD Readmission of Jews to Hagenau · Haguenau, France
  110. 1347 AD Anti-Jewish persecutions in Alsatian towns · Alsace, France
  111. 1348 AD Banishment of Vesoul Jews after torture · Vesoul, France
  112. 1348 AD Black Death accusations against Jews in Dauphiné · Dauphiné, France
  113. 1348 AD Black Death accusations and executions of Jews in Besançon province · Besançon, France
  114. 1348 AD Black Death massacres at St. Saturnin and Ste. Euphémie · Saint-Saturnin, France
  115. 1348 AD Black Death riots against Jews in Provence · Provence, France
  116. 1348 AD Burning of Colmar Jews during the Black Death · Colmar, France
  117. 1348 AD Burning of Grenoble Jews during the Black Death · Grenoble, France
  118. 1348 AD Burning of Jews in Avignon during the Black Death · Avignon, France
  119. 1348 AD Colmar Jew tortured into accusing Strasburg cantor of poisoning · Colmar, France
  120. 1348 AD Massacre of Jews at Toulon during the Black Death · Toulon, France
  121. 1348 AD Massacre of ninety-three Jews at Veyne · Veynes, France
  122. 1348 AD Obernai tortures five Jews over well-poisoning · Obernai, France
  123. 1348 AD Persecution of the Jews of Nyons during the Black Death · Nyons, France
  124. 1348 AD Well-poisoning accusation and arrest of Vesoul Jews · Vesoul, France
  125. 1348 AD Well-poisoning accusation and massacres during the Black Death · Chambéry, France and elsewhere
  126. 1348–1349 AD Black Death arrests, dispossession and expulsion from Burgundy county · Franche-Comté, France
  127. 1348–1349 AD Conversions to escape Black Death persecution · Perpignan, France
  128. 1348–1349 AD Persecution of Tarascon Jews accused of spreading Black Death · Tarascon, France
  129. c. 1348–1350 AD Well-poisoning defamation, killings and expulsions of about 300 communities · Spain and elsewhere
  130. 1349 AD Black Death persecution annihilates Rappoltsweiler community · Ribeauvillé (Rappoltsweiler), France
  131. 1349 AD Charles IV claims Strasburg Jews' loan proceeds · Strasbourg, France
  132. 1349 AD Destruction of the Jewish community of Haguenau in the Black Death · Haguenau, France
  133. 1349 AD Jews burned at Schlettstadt · Sélestat (Schlettstadt), France
  134. c. 1349 AD Jews of Doubs, Jura and Montbéliard ordered to leave · Franche-Comté, France
  135. 1349 AD Plunder of the Strasburg synagogue and Grusselhorn libel · Strasbourg, France
  136. 1349 AD Strasbourg massacre · Strasbourg, France
  137. 1349 AD Well-poisoning libel against the Jews during the Black Death · Strasbourg, France
  138. 1349–1368 AD Ban on Jews entering Strasburg · Strasbourg, France
  139. 1350 AD Inquisitor forces Jews to remain in the ghetto · Marseille, France
  140. 1350–1365 AD Confiscation of Jewish credits in Gap, Montauban and Meuillon · Gap, France
  141. c. 1350–1399 AD Restrictions on Jews under Queen Joanna of Provence · Arles, France
  142. 1351 AD Massacres of Jews at Luc and Forcalquier · Le Luc, France
  143. 1354 AD Jews permitted to return to Haguenau · Haguenau, France
  144. 1355 AD Archbishop of Besançon renews ban on Christian servants · Besançon, France
  145. 1355 AD New persecutions of Jews in several Provence towns · Provence, France
  146. 1358 AD Peter IV restricts Jewish food purchases in the market · Perpignan, France
  147. 1359 AD Destruction of the Jewish cemetery of Tours · Tours, France
  148. 1359 AD Jews readmitted to Nîmes · Nîmes, France
  149. 1359 AD Jews returning to Nîmes assigned a designated street · Nîmes, France
  150. 1359 AD Readmission of Jews to Toulouse · Toulouse, France
  151. 1359–1360 AD Readmission of the Jews to France · France
  152. 1360 AD Princess Marguerite exiles surviving Jews from the province · Besançon, France
  153. 1360 AD Return of exiled Jews to France negotiated · France
  154. 1363 AD Jewish badge imposed in Montpellier · Montpellier, France
  155. 1363 AD John the Good annuls Jewish privileges and reimposes badge · France
  156. 1364 AD Ban on Christian butchers selling meat to Jews · Montpellier, France
  157. 1365 AD Expulsion of Jews from Metz · Metz, France
  158. 1365 AD Jews confined to the Rue de la Vacherie · Montpellier, France
  159. 1366 AD Banishment of the Jews of Béziers · Béziers, France
  160. 1366 AD Jews ordered out of Christian streets · Perpignan, France
  161. 1367 AD Host theft accusation threatens Jewish quarter · Perpignan, France
  162. 1367 AD Jewish community renewed in Béziers · Béziers, France
  163. 1368 AD Jews restricted to an assigned well · Montpellier, France
  164. 1369 AD Jews readmitted to Strasburg · Strasbourg, France
  165. 1370 AD Attack on the Jews in the Call (1370) · Perpignan, France
  166. 1374 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Salins · Salins-les-Bains, France
  167. c. 1375 AD Jews readmitted to Colmar · Colmar, France
  168. c. 1375–1399 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Nancy · Nancy, France
  169. 1377 AD Royal decree confines Jews to the Carrière in Tarascon · Tarascon, France
  170. 1378 AD Charles V extracts 20,000 francs from the Jews of France · France
  171. 1380 AD Jewish children baptized during 1380 riot · Paris, France
  172. 1380 AD Paris mob pillages and massacres Jews after Charles VI's accession · Paris, France
  173. 1381 AD Expulsion of the Jews from France · France
  174. 1382 AD Anti-Jewish riots of 1382 · France
  175. 1382 AD Jewish quarter of Mantes pillaged · Mantes, France
  176. 1382 AD Jews barred from owning land and vineyards in Tarascon · Tarascon, France
  177. 1382 AD Popular uprising against the Jews of Orléans · Orléans, France
  178. 1382 AD Riot in Paris · Paris, France
  179. 1384 AD Jewish families readmitted to Chalon · Chalon-sur-Saône, France
  180. 1384 AD Philip the Bold regulates the status of the Jews · Franche-Comté, France
  181. 1385 AD Bishop revokes 1343 agreement and reimposes annual tax · Carpentras, France
  182. 1385 AD Jews readmitted to Colmar · Colmar, France
  183. 1385–1386 AD Wenceslaus seizes Swabian Jews' books and expels Strasbourg Jews · Strasbourg, France
  184. 1386 AD Strasburg Jews fined 20,000 florins · Strasbourg, France
  185. 1386 AD Wenceslaus expels Strasbourg's Jews · Strasbourg, France
  186. 1386 AD Wenceslaus orders dress laws and Jewish badge garments at Strasburg · Strasbourg, France
  187. 1387 AD Jew beaten and expelled from Strasburg cathedral · Strasbourg, France
  188. 1387 AD Ritual sacrifice accusation at Strasburg · Strasbourg, France
  189. 1387 AD Wenceslaus bans Jews of Colmar, Schlettstadt and Hagenau over taxes · Colmar, France
  190. 1387–1388 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Strasburg · Strasbourg, France
  191. 1388 AD Annulment of Jewish privileges and special tax in Dauphiné · Dauphiné, France
  192. 1388 AD Summons and collective fines on the Jews of the Dauphiné · Grenoble, France
  193. 1390 AD Additional tollage of 2,000 francs on Jews · Dauphiné, France
  194. 1391 AD Gaston III imprisons and extorts the Jews of Pamiers · Pamiers, France
  195. 1391 AD Jews forbidden to leave Perpignan · Perpignan, France
  196. 1392 AD 1391 persecutions reach the Jews of Roussillon · Roussillon, France
  197. 1392 AD Attack on the Jews in the Call (1392) · Perpignan, France
  198. 1392 AD Wenceslaus annuls Jewish debt claims · Colmar, France
  199. 1394 AD Duke of Foix prevents Jews from leaving Pamiers · Pamiers, France
  200. 1394 AD Expulsion of Jews from France · France
  201. 1394 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Carcassonne · Carcassonne, France
  202. 1394 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Dijon · Dijon, France
  203. 1394 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Nîmes by Charles VI · Nîmes, France
  204. 1394 AD Paris Jews accused of inducing a convert to return to Judaism · Paris, France
  205. 1394 AD Persecution instigated by Vincent Ferrer · Chambéry, France
  206. 1394 AD Royal edict ends the Jewish community of Montpellier · Montpellier, France
  207. 1394–1395 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Franche-Comté · Franche-Comté, France
  208. 1396 AD Trial and fine of three Jewish youths in Grenoble · Grenoble, France
  209. 1397 AD Exile of the Jews from Burgundy · Burgundy, France
  210. 1397 AD Well-poisoning story in Upper Alsace · Alsace, France
  211. 1400 AD Louis II of Anjou exempts Tarascon Jews from new taxes · Tarascon, France
  212. c. 1400–1499 AD Jews limited to three-day stays in Metz · Metz, France

15th century

  1. 1403 AD Benedict XIII claims episcopal taxes from Carpentras Jews · Carpentras, France
  2. 1409 AD Expulsion of the last Jew from Champlitte · Champlitte, France
  3. 1413 AD Dauphin's council orders segregation of Jewish facilities · Dauphiné, France
  4. 1413 AD Segregation, badge and restrictions on Jews in Dauphiné · Grenoble, France
  5. 1415 AD Ferdinand I orders compulsory conversion sermons · Perpignan, France
  6. 1415 AD Ferdinand I restricts Jewish pawnbroking, medicine and food exchange · Roussillon, France
  7. 1415 AD Ferdinand I restricts synagogues · Perpignan, France
  8. 1417 AD Examination of Jewish books at Chambéry for blasphemy · Chambéry, France
  9. 1417 AD Seizure of Jewish books in Savoy · Savoy, France
  10. 1419 AD Alphonse IV lifts the badge requirement · Perpignan, France
  11. 1420 AD Expulsion of Jews from Lyon · Lyon, France
  12. 1420 AD Jews expelled from Lyon · Lyon, France
  13. 1423 AD Jews suffer in Aragonese capture of Marseille · Marseille, France
  14. 1425 AD Forced loan imposed on Jews of Trévoux · Trévoux, France
  15. c. 1427 AD Inquisition pressure drives conversions and departures · Perpignan, France
  16. 1429 AD Blasphemous books accusation, book burning and expulsion from Trévoux · Trévoux, France
  17. 1429 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Châtillon-les-Dombes · Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne (Châtillon-les-Dombes), France
  18. 1430 AD Ghetto assigned to the Jews of Nice · Nice, France
  19. 1430 AD Jewish books examined and ordered burned in Savoy · Trévoux, France
  20. 1430 AD Jews of Chambéry confined to a special quarter · Chambéry, France
  21. 1430 AD Pogrom in Aix-en-Provence · Aix-en-Provence, France
  22. 1433 AD Jews barred from residence and transit in Verdun · Verdun, France
  23. 1435 AD Ban on brokerage and compulsory Jewish badge · Aix-en-Provence, France
  24. 1436 AD Execution of Astruc de Léon and massacre of Jews · Aix-en-Provence, France
  25. 1436 AD Mob attack on the Jews of Arles · Arles, France
  26. 1436 AD Sigismund bars Hagenau citizens from renting or selling houses to Jews · Haguenau, France
  27. 1437 AD Edict barring house sales or rentals to Jews · Colmar, France
  28. 1439 AD Jewish badge imposed at Montélimar · Montélimar, France
  29. 1441 AD Badge of the wheel imposed on Jews of Valence · Valence, France
  30. 1446 AD King René imposes annual tribute on Jewish congregations · Provence, France
  31. c. 1450–1499 AD Jews excluded from public office in Tarascon · Tarascon, France
  32. 1453 AD Compulsory Christian worship and conversion preacher in Montélimar · Montélimar, France
  33. 1454 AD King René eases restrictions on Aix Jews · Aix-en-Provence, France
  34. 1454 AD King René mitigates badge edict · Tarascon, France
  35. 1454 AD King René opens commerce and crafts to Jews · Provence, France
  36. 1457 AD Pius II bans Jews from food trade and dealings with Christians · Avignon, France
  37. 1460 AD René bars Jews from public office · Tarascon, France
  38. 1461–1483 AD Dauphin Louis fines Jews of Dauphiné · Dauphiné, France
  39. c. 1461–1483 AD Heavy fine imposed on the Jews of Dauphiné by Louis XI · Dauphiné, France
  40. c. 1461–1483 AD Louis XI permits limited Jewish residence in Paris · Paris, France
  41. 1463 AD Fine imposed on 14 Jews of Valence by the dauphin · Valence, France
  42. 1465 AD Municipality sells the Jewish cemetery of Besançon · Besançon, France
  43. 1466 AD Bloody persecution of Jews in Savoy · Savoy, France
  44. 1466 AD Witchcraft and sacrilege accusation against the Jews of Chambéry · Chambéry, France
  45. 1467 AD Expulsion of Jews from Trévoux · Trévoux, France
  46. 1468 AD Maltreatment and expulsion of the Jews from Montélimar · Montélimar, France
  47. 1475 AD Anti-Jewish outbreaks in Provence · Provence, France
  48. 1475 AD René imposes 8,000-florin subsidy on Tarascon Jews · Tarascon, France
  49. 1476 AD Swiss Confederates plunder Colmar Jews · Colmar, France
  50. 1476–1477 AD Renewed violence against Alsatian Jews · Alsace, France
  51. 1476–1478 AD Council bars Jews from entering Colmar · Colmar, France
  52. 1477 AD Expulsion of the Jews from the Duchy of Lorraine · Nancy, France
  53. 1477 AD Jews of Orange excluded from the wheat trade · Orange, France
  54. 1479 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Schlettstadt · Sélestat (Schlettstadt), France
  55. 1480 AD Papal bull favorable to Jews annulled · Avignon, France
  56. 1481 AD Forced baptism of a Jewish girl in Marseille · Marseille, France
  57. 1484 AD Attack on Jews and destruction of synagogue at Arles · Arles, France
  58. 1484 AD Lawless bands attack and pillage Marseille Jews · Marseille, France
  59. 1484 AD Orange council demands expulsion of Jews, prince refuses · Orange, France
  60. 1484 AD Pillaging of the Jews of Aix · Aix-en-Provence, France
  61. 1484–1486 AD Attacks on Jews in Aix, Marseilles and Arles · Aix-en-Provence, France
  62. 1485 AD 22 Conversos burned by the Spanish Inquisition · Perpignan, France
  63. 1486 AD Councilors demand expulsion of Jewish refugees · Avignon, France
  64. 1488 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Arles · Arles, France
  65. 1488 AD Further expulsion of Jews from Trévoux · Trévoux, France
  66. 1489 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Draguignan under Provence edict · Draguignan, France
  67. 1489 AD Populace attacks Jewish quarter in Tarascon · Tarascon, France
  68. 1490 AD Attacks on Jewish houses in Orange · Orange, France
  69. 1492 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Chambéry · Chambéry, France
  70. 1492 AD General expulsion decree in Savoy · Savoy, France
  71. 1492 AD Spanish Jewish refugees forced out of Perpignan · Perpignan, France
  72. c. 1493 AD Anti-Jewish disorders in Arles · Arles, France
  73. 1493 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Perpignan · Perpignan, France
  74. 1493 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Roussillon · Roussillon, France
  75. 1493 AD Jewish houses in the Call auctioned off · Perpignan, France
  76. 1495 AD Anti-Jewish disorders in Manosque · Manosque, France
  77. 1496 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Tarascon · Tarascon, France
  78. 1498–1501 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Provence · Provence, France
  79. c. 1500–1501 AD Royal decree banishing Jews from Marseille · Marseille, France
  80. c. 1500–1599 AD Popes enforce Jew-badge and cancel debts owed to Jews · Avignon, France

16th century

  1. 1501 AD Expulsion of Jews from Provence · Provence, France
  2. c. 1501 AD Jewish cemetery site given away after expulsion · Marseille, France
  3. 1505 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Orange · Orange, France
  4. 1510 AD Colmar synagogue and cemetery given to Jean Spiegel · Colmar, France
  5. 1510 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Alsace · Alsace, France
  6. 1510–1512 AD Banishment of the Jews from Colmar · Colmar, France
  7. c. 1512 AD Confiscation of Colmar synagogue and cemetery · Colmar, France
  8. c. 1512 AD Costly toll on Jews entering Strasbourg · Strasbourg, France
  9. 1512 AD Toll and yellow badge imposed on Jewish traders · Colmar, France
  10. 1513 AD Leo X restricts Jews' grain purchases and access to fields · Avignon, France
  11. 1520 AD Jews restricted to stranger hours and made to wear yellow badge · Strasbourg, France
  12. 1521 AD Imperial edict restricts Jewish business at Schlettstadt · Sélestat (Schlettstadt), France
  13. 1525 AD Clement VII orders distinctive Jewish dress · Carpentras, France
  14. 1528 AD Town expulsion order against Jews of Haguenau revoked · Haguenau, France
  15. 1529 AD Total expulsion of the Jews from Schlettstadt · Sélestat (Schlettstadt), France
  16. 1530 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Ribeauvillé · Ribeauvillé, France
  17. 1530 AD Jews restricted to loans against movable pledges · Colmar, France
  18. 1534 AD Law forbidding harboring of Jews in Colmar · Colmar, France
  19. 1539 AD Ban on Christians contracting with Jews · Strasbourg, France
  20. 1539 AD Clement VII revokes the privileges of the Jews · Carpentras, France
  21. 1541 AD Charles V permits Colmar to bar Jews · Colmar, France
  22. 1547 AD Arrest of Marranos in Colmar · Colmar, France
  23. 1550 AD Bayonne merchants bar New Christians from retail trade · Bayonne, France
  24. 1550 AD Letters-patent for Portuguese New Christians · Bordeaux, France
  25. 1555–1592 AD Popes renew anti-Jewish decrees · Carpentras, France
  26. 1561 AD Ban on non-resident Jews attending Hagenau synagogue · Haguenau, France
  27. c. 1565–1567 AD Jews readmitted to Metz as pawnbrokers · Metz, France
  28. c. 1566–1572 AD Pius V decree banishing Jews from papal dominions · Avignon, France
  29. 1567 AD Anti-Jewish restrictions lifted in France · France
  30. 1567 AD Council of Avignon isolates Jews from Christian society · Avignon, France
  31. 1569–1570 AD Papal expulsion of Jews from Italian and French territory · Papal States, Italy and elsewhere
  32. 1570 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Avignon · Avignon, France
  33. 1574 AD Expulsion of Jews from Austrian Alsace · Alsace, France
  34. c. 1590 AD Expulsion edict extended to Dauphiné · Dauphiné, France
  35. c. 1590–1599 AD Banishment of Jews from Rappoltsweiler · Ribeauvillé (Rappoltsweiler), France
  36. 1596 AD Accusation of treason against Marranos in Bordeaux · Bordeaux, France
  37. c. 1600–1610 AD Jews authorized to return to Nancy · Nancy, France
  38. c. 1600–1650 AD Parliament of Orange renews expulsion decree · Orange, France
  39. c. 1600–1699 AD Toulouse parliament limits Jewish stays in Montpellier · Montpellier, France

17th century

  1. 1613 AD Archduke Leopold's decree restricting Alsatian Jews · Alsace, France
  2. 1615 AD Edict of Louis XIII forbidding contact with Jews · France
  3. 1615 AD Expulsion order against Jews of the kingdom reiterated · France
  4. 1615 AD Jews of Paris banished during Passover · Paris, France
  5. 1615 AD Louis XIII expels Spanish converts from Nantes · Nantes, France
  6. 1615 AD Louis XIII's decree expelling Jews from France · France
  7. 1622 AD Colmar refuses entry to a Jewish horse-dealer · Colmar, France
  8. 1632 AD Accusations of Judaizing against Portuguese merchants in Rouen · Rouen, France
  9. 1636 AD Expulsion of Marrano families from Bayonne · Bayonne, France
  10. 1639 AD Interrogation and search of Jews at Strasbourg gates · Strasbourg, France
  11. c. 1640–1660 AD Jews readmitted to Rappoltsweiler under protection tax · Ribeauvillé (Rappoltsweiler), France
  12. 1648 AD Ban on horse sales to Jews outside Strasbourg horse market · Strasbourg, France
  13. 1648 AD Partial expulsion of Jews from Peyrehorade · Peyrehorade, France
  14. c. 1650–1700 AD Harsh anti-Jewish measures applied in Comtat Venaissin · Comtat Venaissin, France
  15. 1653 AD Order to expel Comtat Venaissin Jews from Montpellier · Montpellier, France
  16. 1653 AD Parlement of Toulouse orders Comtat Venaissin Jews out of Nîmes · Nîmes, France
  17. 1657 AD Mob burns Jews at Dachstein · Dachstein, France
  18. 1658 AD Edict forbidding Jewish commerce in Martinique · Martinique, France
  19. 1658 AD Jewish commercial rights restored in Martinique · Martinique, France
  20. 1658 AD Senate restrictions on the Jews of Nice · Nice, France
  21. 1664 AD Governor Baas restores Jewish trade · Martinique, France
  22. 1664 AD Tracy's decree against Jewish trade on Sundays · Martinique, France
  23. 1665 AD Parliament limits Jewish sojourn in Dauphiné to three days · Dauphiné, France
  24. 1669 AD Governor bans Jewish religious ceremonies and public appearance · Martinique, France
  25. 1669 AD Italian Jews forced out of Marseilles · Marseille, France
  26. c. 1669 AD Parliament of Provence renews bans on Jewish residence in Marseilles · Marseille, France
  27. 1669 AD Return of Jews to Orange authorized · Orange, France
  28. 1670 AD Execution of Raphael Lévy for alleged ritual murder · Metz, France
  29. c. 1670 AD Ritual murder accusation over missing young persons · Paris, France
  30. 1671 AD Louis XIV grants Jews of Martinique religious liberty and equal privileges · Martinique, France
  31. 1672 AD Additional protection tax levied on Alsatian Jews · Alsace, France
  32. 1679–1680 AD Further expulsion orders against Jews in Montpellier · Montpellier, France
  33. 1680 AD Expulsion of Jews allowed to sojourn in Nîmes · Nîmes, France
  34. 1680 AD Inquisition condemns Juan Ibanès of Peyrehorade to the stake · Peyrehorade, France
  35. c. 1680–1799 AD Jews denied free access to Besançon · Besançon, France
  36. 1681 AD Strasburg maintains old statutes against Jews after capitulation · Strasbourg, France
  37. 1682 AD Expulsion of Villaréal from Marseille · Marseille, France
  38. 1683 AD Louis XIV orders expulsion of Jews from French America · Martinique, France and elsewhere
  39. 1684 AD Banishment of ninety-three Jewish families from the kingdom · Peyrehorade, France
  40. 1684–1686 AD Expulsion of poor Jewish families from Bordeaux · Bordeaux, France
  41. 1685 AD Expulsion of Jews from French colonies (1685) · France
  42. 1685 AD Inquisition trial of Marranos in Toulouse · Toulouse, France
  43. 1686 AD Expulsion decree annulled and Jews accepted as residents · Bordeaux, France
  44. 1687 AD Second expulsion of the Jews from Orange · Orange, France
  45. 1691 AD Jews again allowed into Colmar · Colmar, France
  46. 1694 AD Expulsion of six Jewish families from Martinique · Martinique, France

18th century

  1. c. 1701–1800 AD Expulsion of Jews from France lifted in practice · France
  2. 1703 AD Remaining Jews driven out of Orange · Orange, France
  3. 1711 AD Expulsion of Lopez from Marseille · Marseille, France
  4. 1714 AD Hagenau edict against sheltering foreign Jews and Sunday trading · Haguenau, France
  5. 1717 AD Expulsion of Jews from Dauphiné by parliament · Grenoble, France
  6. 1720 AD Hagenau residence regulations limiting Jewish families · Haguenau, France
  7. 1720 AD Orange council orders Jews to wear yellow hats · Orange, France
  8. 1721 AD Edict limiting Jewish residence in Lorraine to 70 families · Lorraine, France
  9. 1721 AD Police inspector extorts Paris Jews · Paris, France
  10. 1723 AD Heavy tax on Portuguese Jews in exchange for letters patent · Bordeaux, France
  11. 1726 AD Destruction of three Alsatian synagogues ordered · Wintzenheim, France
  12. 1728 AD Duke Leopold annuls measures favoring Jews in Lorraine · Lorraine, France
  13. 1729–1754 AD Restrictive measures against Jews by the intendant of Languedoc · Nîmes, France
  14. 1730 AD Jews permitted to live openly as Jews · Bordeaux, France
  15. c. 1731 AD New expulsion orders in Orange only partly enforced · Orange, France
  16. 1733 AD Jews forbidden to bake bread on Sundays · Alsace, France
  17. 1733 AD Obligation to rent all ghetto houses jointly · Nice, France
  18. 1734 AD Ban on public practice of Judaism reiterated · Bordeaux, France
  19. 1734 AD Expulsion of Avignonese Jews from Bordeaux · Bordeaux, France
  20. 1735 AD Ban on Hebrew characters in Jewish accounts · Alsace, France
  21. 1736 AD Leopold orders Jews into a segregated quarter · Nancy, France
  22. 1739–1749 AD Occupational restrictions on Avignonese Jews · Bordeaux, France
  23. 1740 AD Council of state bans Jewish trade at Nevers · Nevers, France
  24. 1740 AD Jews forbidden to live in the same houses as Christians · Alsace, France
  25. 1740 AD New expulsion decree (1740) · Bordeaux, France
  26. 1745–1754 AD Jews' trading concession in Nîmes abolished · Nîmes, France
  27. 1748 AD Metz Jews refused permission to visit Verdun · Verdun, France
  28. 1748 AD New expulsion decree (1748) · Bordeaux, France
  29. 1749 AD Expulsion of seventy-eight poor Jews from Bayonne, Bidache and Peyrehorade · Bayonne, France
  30. 1750 AD Badge abolished for the Jews of Nice · Nice, France
  31. 1750 AD Demolition of the synagogue of Sens · Sens, France
  32. 1750 AD Night-time trade restrictions in the Nice ghetto · Nice, France
  33. 1752–1755 AD Jews settled near Verdun expelled · Verdun, France
  34. 1753 AD Stanislaus suspends the edict of 1728 · Lorraine, France
  35. 1754 AD Mirtzel Lévi martyred after unjust trial · Colmar, France
  36. 1760–1763 AD Order to expel German and Avignonese Jews from Bordeaux · Bordeaux, France
  37. 1760–1787 AD Parliament of Provence bans Jewish settlement in Aix · Aix-en-Provence, France
  38. 1761 AD Execution of Jews at Nancy for Host desecration · Nancy, France
  39. 1761 AD Violence against Jews in Alsace · Alsace, France
  40. 1762 AD Residence limit of 180 Jewish families in Lorraine · Lorraine, France
  41. 1764 AD Count d'Estaing taxes the Jews of Martinique · Martinique, France
  42. 1768–1771 AD Cerfbeer permitted to reside in Strasburg · Strasbourg, France
  43. 1773 AD Jewish merchants from Bordeaux expelled from Nantes · Nantes, France
  44. 1774 AD Jew expelled from Verdun after three-day stay · Verdun, France
  45. 1775 AD Jews seeking to settle in Cadenet forced to leave · Cadenet, France
  46. 1775 AD Parliament of Provence expels Jews from Tarascon · Tarascon, France
  47. 1776 AD Letters patent of Louis XVI for the Jews of Bordeaux · Bordeaux, France
  48. 1776 AD Minister rejects change in status of Martinique Jews · Martinique, France
  49. 1777 AD Decree requiring newly arrived Jews to register · Paris, France
  50. 1780 AD Expulsion of Jewish traders from Brittany · Brittany, France
  51. 1784 AD Abolition of the poll-tax on Jews and freedom to settle in France · France
  52. 1784 AD Jews denied admission to trade guilds in Nîmes · Nîmes, France
  53. 1784 AD Repeal of the Leibzoll body-tax · Alsace, France
  54. 1784 AD Royal edict relieves Alsatian Jews of certain taxes · Alsace, France
  55. 1785 AD Abolition of the corporal toll on Jews · Strasbourg, France
  56. 1789 AD French Revolution removes disabilities of Martinique Jews · Martinique, France
  57. 1789 AD Jews allowed to settle in Colmar again · Colmar, France
  58. 1789 AD National Assembly denies equal rights to Jews · France
  59. 1789 AD Peasant attacks on Jews in the Sundgau · Alsace, France
  60. 1789 AD Weekly police raids on Jewish homes · Paris, France
  61. 1790 AD Bordeaux Jews granted French citizenship rights · Bordeaux, France
  62. 1790 AD Decree granting citizenship to Sephardi and Avignonese Jews · France
  63. 1790 AD Forced baptism of a Jewish child at Obernai · Obernai, France
  64. 1790 AD Jews of Bayonne recognized as French citizens · France
  65. c. 1790 AD Legal charges against newly established Jewish merchants in Nantes · Nantes, France
  66. c. 1790–1791 AD Citizenship rights granted to Jews by the National Assembly · Strasbourg, France
  67. c. 1790–1807 AD Jewish community of Besançon reestablished after the Revolution · Besançon, France
  68. 1791 AD Emancipation of the Jews of France · France
  69. 1791 AD Jews imprisoned at Issenheim over ox tongues · Issenheim, France
  70. 1791 AD Jews of Avignon granted full civil rights · Avignon, France
  71. 1792 AD Jews admitted to Strasbourg to take the civic oath · Strasbourg, France
  72. 1792 AD Lafayette proclaims religious freedom for Jews at Metz · Metz, France
  73. 1792 AD Sacking of Jewish homes and synagogue at Voegtlinshoffen · Vœgtlinshoffen, France
  74. 1792–1814 AD Emancipation of Jews under French rule in Nice · Nice, France
  75. 1793 AD Ban on circumcision and beards in Strasbourg district · Strasbourg, France
  76. 1793 AD Jews guillotined or transported by Lower Rhine tribunal · Alsace, France
  77. 1793 AD Order to burn Hebrew books in Strasbourg district · Strasbourg, France
  78. c. 1793–1794 AD Imprisonment and fines of Bordeaux Jews during the Terror · Bordeaux, France
  79. c. 1793–1794 AD Jews arrested and executed during the Reign of Terror · Paris, France
  80. c. 1793–1794 AD Seizure and burning of Jewish books in Strasbourg · Strasbourg, France
  81. 1794 AD Arrest of rabbis and cantors in Schlettstadt and Altkirch districts · Sélestat (Schlettstadt), France
  82. 1794 AD Destruction of Jewish gravestones in Saverne · Saverne, France
  83. 1794 AD Execution of a Jew in the Lower Rhine during the Terror · Alsace, France
  84. 1794 AD Fines and imprisonment of Jews during the Terror in Alsace · Alsace, France
  85. 1794 AD Suspension of Jewish religious freedom during the Reign of Terror · Metz, France

19th century

  1. 1808 AD Napoleon's "infamous decree" · Alsace-Lorraine, France
  2. 1808 AD Napoleon's restrictive measures against Jews · France
  3. 1808 AD Paris Jews exempted from the 1808 decrees · Paris, France
  4. c. 1814 AD Jews of Nice lose their rights after Sardinian restoration · Nice, France
  5. 1818 AD Napoleonic discriminatory regulations not renewed · France
  6. 1828 AD Jews of Nice ordered back to the ghetto · Nice, France
  7. 1831 AD State payment of rabbis' salaries established · France
  8. 1848 AD Anti-Jewish attacks in Sundgau, Alsace · Alsace, France
  9. 1848 AD Emancipation of Jews in Nice guaranteed · Nice, France
  10. 1883 AD Founding of antisemitic journal La Croix · Paris, France
  11. 1891 AD Deputies demand expulsion of Jews from France · France
  12. 1892 AD La Libre Parole defamation campaign against Jewish officers · France
  13. 1894–1906 AD Dreyfus affair · France
  14. 1895 AD Accusation against Jews in France · France

20th century

  1. 1927 AD Schwartzbard trial · Paris, France
  2. c. 1939–1945 AD Deportation and killing of Jews of Phalsbourg in World War II · Phalsbourg, France
  3. c. 1939–1945 AD Expulsion and deportation of Jews from Metz under German occupation · Metz, France
  4. c. 1939–1945 AD Expulsion of Colmar Jews and ransacking of synagogue in WWII · Colmar, France
  5. c. 1939–1945 AD Plunder of Metz synagogues by German soldiers · Metz, France
  6. 1940 AD "Aktion Burckel" deports Jews to southern France · Alsace, France
  7. 1940 AD Anti-Jewish measures in Vichy France · Vichy France, France
  8. 1940 AD Confiscation of "ownerless" Jewish art collections · France
  9. 1940 AD Confiscation of Jewish property in Strasbourg · Strasbourg, France
  10. 1940 AD Deportation of Jews from Besançon · Besançon, France
  11. 1940 AD Destruction of the Rouen synagogue in 1940 bombardment · Rouen, France
  12. 1940 AD Expulsion of Jews from Alsace · Alsace, France
  13. 1940 AD Expulsion of Jews from Occupied Zone · Occupied Zone, France
  14. 1940 AD German census of Jews and Jewish businesses in Paris · Paris, France
  15. 1940 AD German ordinance ordering census of Jews in Occupied Zone · Occupied Zone, France
  16. 1940 AD Stoning of Jewish shops on the Champs Elysées · Paris, France
  17. 1940 AD The Holocaust in France · France
  18. 1940 AD Vichy police census of the Jews · France
  19. 1940 AD Vichy repeals the Marchandeau law · France
  20. 1940–1941 AD Vichy Statut des juifs · France
  21. c. 1940–1944 AD Arrest and deportation of Strasbourg rabbis and youth leader · France
  22. c. 1940–1944 AD Deportation of Dijon Jews to Auschwitz · Dijon, France
  23. c. 1940–1944 AD Looting and destruction of Fontainebleau synagogue · Fontainebleau, France
  24. c. 1940–1944 AD Nazi destruction of the Quai Kléber synagogue · Strasbourg, France
  25. c. 1940–1944 AD Nazi looting of Dijon synagogue · Dijon, France
  26. 1941 AD 1941 Paris synagogue attacks · Paris, France
  27. 1941 AD 4,000 Paris Jews deported, mostly to Pithiviers · Paris, France
  28. 1941 AD 4,300 Paris Jews sent to Drancy, first of 70,000 · Paris, France
  29. 1941 AD Bombing of seven Parisian synagogues · Paris, France
  30. 1941 AD Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs · France
  31. 1941 AD French Jews barred from trade and owning businesses · France
  32. 1941 AD In occupied France, German authorities open the internment camp at… · Beaune-la-Rolande, France
  33. 1941 AD Jewish Foreign Legion veterans sent to Sahara labor camps · France
  34. 1941–1942 AD German fine, executions and deportation order against Jews of France · Occupied Zone, France
  35. 1942 AD 518 Jewish children from Paris gassed at Auschwitz · Paris, France
  36. 1942 AD 700 Romanian Jews sent from Drancy to Auschwitz · Drancy, France
  37. 1942 AD 745 Paris Jews, including old-age home residents, sent to Auschwitz · Paris, France
  38. 1942 AD Ban on Jews in public places and limits on shopping hours · Occupied Zone, France
  39. 1942 AD Beginning of mass deportations of Jews from France · France
  40. 1942 AD Deportation of Gurs internees to Poland · Gurs, France
  41. 1942 AD Drancy transport reaches Auschwitz; 773 gassed · Drancy, France
  42. 1942 AD First transports from Drancy to Auschwitz · Drancy, France
  43. 1942 AD German curfew and residence ban for Jews in Occupied Zone · Occupied Zone, France
  44. 1942 AD Jewish women partisans bomb Nazi barracks in Paris · Paris, France
  45. 1942 AD Night in boxcars at Drancy; two escape en route · Drancy, France
  46. 1942 AD Paris Jews held at Drancy deported to Auschwitz · Drancy, France
  47. 1942 AD Roundup of foreign Jews in the Unoccupied Zone · Unoccupied Zone, France
  48. 1942 AD Roundup of foreign-born Jews in the Toulouse region · Toulouse, France
  49. 1942 AD Yellow Star made compulsory in Occupied France · Occupied Zone, France
  50. 1942 AD Yellow badge ordered for Jews in Occupied Zone · Occupied Zone, France
  51. 1942–1943 AD Arrest and deportation of foreign Jews from Nancy · Nancy, France
  52. 1942–1944 AD Arrests and deportations of Jews from Nantes · Nantes, France
  53. 1942–1944 AD Deportation of Jews from Bordeaux · Bordeaux, France
  54. 1942–1944 AD Deportation of Jews from France to Auschwitz · France
  55. 1943 AD Arrest and deportation of Aix Jews · Aix-en-Provence, France
  56. 1943 AD Arrest and deportation of Jewish families from Avignon · Avignon, France
  57. 1943 AD Collaboration of the Vichy regime with the Holocaust: January 1943 – Roundup of… · France
  58. 1943 AD Expulsion of Bayonne Jews and confiscation of property · Bayonne, France
  59. 1943 AD Germans arrest Jews sheltered in former Italian-occupied zone · Italian occupation zone, France
  60. c. 1943–1944 AD German raids and deportation of Jews from Nice · Nice, France
  61. c. 1943–1944 AD Gestapo arrests and deportations of Jews in Grenoble area · Grenoble, France
  62. 1944 AD Collaboration of the Vichy regime with the Holocaust: February 1944 – roundups… · Clermont-Ferrand, France
  63. 1944 AD Execution of seven Jews in the cemetery of Rillieux · Rillieux-la-Pape, France
  64. 1944 AD French Fascists ransack Bordeaux great synagogue · Bordeaux, France
  65. 1944 AD Mass arrest and deportation of Nancy's French Jews · Nancy, France
  66. 1944 AD Murder of seven Jews by Paul Touvier · Lyon, France
  67. c. 1944 AD Plunder and destruction of Nancy synagogue · Nancy, France
  68. 1944 AD Tragedy of the Guerry's wells · Savigny-en-Septaine, France
  69. 1969 AD Rumor of abductions in Jewish-owned shops in Orléans · Orléans, France
  70. 1978 AD Extreme-right antisemitic attacks and cemetery desecrations in France · France
  71. 1980 AD 1980 Paris synagogue bombing · Paris, France
  72. 1980 AD Bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris · Paris, France
  73. 1982 AD Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant attack · Paris, France
  74. 1990 AD Desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Carpentras · Carpentras, France
  75. 1992 AD Increase in desecrations of Jewish sites in Alsace · Alsace, France

21st century

  1. 2012 AD Toulouse and Montauban shootings · Toulouse, France
  2. 2015 AD Attack in Nice, France · Nice, France
  3. 2015 AD Porte de Vincennes siege · Paris, France
  4. 2015 AD Saïd Kouachi · Paris, France
  5. 2017 AD Attack in Paris · Paris, France
  6. 2017 AD Killing of Sarah Halimi · Paris, France
  7. 2018 AD Jewish cemetery desecrated in Strasbourg, France · Strasbourg, France
  8. 2024 AD Attack on Rouen Synagogue · Rouen, France

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