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The Republic faces many enemies from without but also from within. The main example of that is the War in the Vendée. Vendée is on the French Atlantic coast, just below the Loire river. Long story short, its population and leaders revolted against the "levée en masse". 
The society will see many prominent Frenchmen join its ranks in the following years, including La Fayette, Mirabeau, or Condorcet. Olympe de Gouges was also working to abolish slavery but could not join the society because of its fee and internal rules she disagreed with. 
Louis XV wasn’t very decisive and faced strong opposition from part of the nobility. He also received criticism for his lavish lifestyle and his extramarital relationships, especially with Madame de Pompadour. These were common, but he granted her too much power for some’s taste. 
For many people in France, one big problem still loomed over: hunger. People were starving and some revolutionaries took advantage of it, making sure that the king and the nobility were the target of the anger caused by the famine. On October 5th 1789, a riot of women arrives… 
There is a before and after the RĂ©volution for France, Europe and the World. It was a real political tsunami, with immediate and long term consequences. With the following Napoleonic wars, it shaped the 19th century in a way that nobody could foresee only a generation before. 
After Jeanne D’Arc’s intervention and Charles VII’s crowning, the English keep suffering defeat after defeat. Henri VI tries to legitimize his claim to the French throne by being crowned king of France in December 1431 in Paris, but it doesn't help his cause. 
Following the debacle at Azincourt, the French nobles panic. They contact the Holy Roman Emperor, Sigismund to mediate a peace with England. However, Sigismund decides instead to ally himself with Henry. 
The French had planned an invasion of Britain. They had amassed over 17,000 soldiers in Morbihan (Brittany). But they need to get to England and face a blocus headed by Admiral Hawke. The French admiral, de Conflans, isn’t has fast-thinking and clever as his opponent. 
Any bookmaker would have favoured France. The country is richer and way more populous, about 15 millions inhabitants against 4 millions in England. It also has an old and powerful army. The French knights, descendants of the Frankish heritage, are dreaded by their enemies. 
The rivalry between France and England is notorious and can actually be dated precisely: 1066. The Normans defeated the Anglo-Saxon army at the battle of Hastings and became the rulers of England. The Duke of Normandy, Guillaume le Conquérant, was now king of England. 
By the VIIth century, the Franks had authority over most of what we now call France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland as well as Western Germany. They had conquered this territory in the course of two centuries under the rule of a dynasty known as the Merovingians. 
As I’ve mentioned before, both my grandfathers fought in the war. During the 1940 campaign, my paternal grandfather, Fred, was captured by the Germans. Along with thousands of other guys. Then, they started walking to their camp in Germany. Oflag XIII, close to Nürnberg. 
If you were to ask anyone on the street of Paris, or any other French city "who was the greatest French monarch?", I think the vast majority would answer Louis XIV. Let's find out why he let such a lasting impression.
On July 4th, 1917, US Army colonel Charles Egbert Stanton made a speech, at the Picpus cemetery in France, where the Marquis de La Fayette is buried. America had recently joined the Allied cause in WWI, alongside France and Great Britain. 
Happening just a few years after the American Civil war, it was far deadlier. The American Civil War costs 600,000 dead in 48 months. This is by far the most American losses in any conflict. The US will suffer 116000 dead in WWI and over. 400000 in WWII.