and Chanel peace plan (i)
and Dakar debacle (i)
and de Gaulle (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
and destruction of French navy (i)
and Dunkirk (i), (ii)
and Normandy landings (i)
and Paris liberation (i), (ii)
on Hitler and Rhineland (i)
cinema, French (i)
CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) (i)
Claremont House, Louis-Philippe’s exile at (i)
Clarke, Edward, and acquisition of Rosetta Stone (i)
Classicism, French (i)
Claudel, Paul, on American democracy (i)
Clemenceau, Georges
and Treaty of Versailles (i)
on English (i)
Paris speech (i)
clergymen, émigré, occupations during Revolution (i)
Clifford, Rosamund, lover of Henry II (i)
Clive, Major-General Robert (Clive of India) (i)
Clover, Joseph (anaesthetist), and demise of Napoleon III (i)
Cnut King of England (i)
coal, British, French industry’s sudden lack of (i)
Cockleshell Heroes (film) (i)
Cocteau, Jean, and Nazi friends (i)
code civil, du commerce, pénal, Napoleon’s laws (i)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
and liberty/equality (i)
and Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads (i)
on French (i)
Coligny, Gaspard de, expedition to South Carolina (i)
collaboration
collaboration horizontale by French women (i), (ii)
French (i)
in Channel Islands (i), (ii)
colonies, French attitude to (i)
Columbus, Christopher (i)
Commerson, Philibert, botanist with Bougainville (i), (ii)
Common Agricultural Policy, de Gaulle and (i)
Common Market, Britain and (i)
Communists, French, initially support Hitler (i)
Compagnie d’Occident, John Law and (i)
Concord see Concorde Concorde (i)
Constable, John, painter (i)
Convention nationale, and call to overthrow all monarchies (i)
Cook, Captain James,
and Canada (i)
and Tahiti (i), (ii)
Cooper, James Fenimore, The Last of the Mohicans (i)
Corbin, André, and Anglo–French union (i)
Corneille, Pierre, dramatist (i)
Cornwallis, General Charles, and surrender of Yorktown (i)
Cornwell, Bernard, on Agincourt (i)
Corsica
Garde nationale, Napoleon and (i)
patron saint of, (i)
seeks to join British Empire (i)
Coty, René, President of France, invites de Gaulle to return (i)
cow
pivotal role in American Independence (i), (ii)
see also mad
Coutanche, Alexander, wartime Bailiff of Jersey (i), (ii)
Crécy, Battle of (i), (ii)
Crécy, tourists at (i), (ii)
Cresson, Edith, on ‘gay’ Englishmen (i)
Crimean War, Napoleon III and (i)
croissant, origin of (i)
Crompton, Richmal, on pointlessness of learning French (i)
Cromwell, Oliver (i), (ii)
and Dunkirk (i)
Cross of Lorraine (i)
crusades, Richard I and (i), (ii)
Cyprus, French anger at British possession of (i)
D-Day (i)
2004 commemoration of (i)
gaffe at 2009 commemoration of (i)
d’Aché, Admiral Anne-Antoine
and Pondicherry (i), (ii), (iii)
fights at Madras (i)
d’Arc family (i), (ii); see also Joan
d’Azincourt, Ysambart, and massacre at Agincourt (i)
d’Erlanger, Leo, head of Channel Tunnel Company (i)
d’Estaing, Charles–Henri, confused in Madras (i); see also Giscard
d’Harcourt, Geoffroy, French traitor (i), (ii)
Dakar, attack by de Gaulle fails (i)
Daladier, Edouard, French Premier
and Munich Conference (i)
sent to Buchenwald (i)
Dalton, Hugh, on de Gaulle (i)
Dalton, John, executed by Halifax Gibbet (i)
Darnley, Henry, husband of Mary Queen of Scots (i), (ii)
Daumier, Honoré, cartoonist (i)
Dauphin (Charles VII) see Charles VII
David II King of Scotland (i)
David, Jacques-Louis, painter (i)
de Beauvoir, Simone, and dubious career in WWII (i), (ii)
de Gaulle, Charles André Joseph Marie (i), (ii)
and Anglo–French union (i)
and aversion to Americans (i), (ii)
and Casablanca conference (i)
and Churchill (i), (ii), (iii)
and D-Day (i)
and events of May 1968 (i)
and Macmillan (i)
and mechanized warfare (i)
and Paris liberation (i)
and Roosevelt (i)
and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (i)
Appel du 18 juin (i)
assassination attempts on (i), (ii)
leaves post-war coalition government (i)
on French (i)
return to power (i)
de Gouges, Olympe, French writer (i)
de Launay, Bernard-René Jordan, governor of Bastille (i)
de Monts, Pierre Dugua, viceroy of Nouvelle-France (i)
de Pauger, Adrien, engineer, designer of New Orleans (i)
de Tourville, Anne-Hilarion, commander of French fleet (i)
de Villiers, Louis, captures George Washington (i)
Delacroix, Eugène, painter, and La Mort de Sardanapale (i)
Delors, Jacques, becomes Sun headline (i)
Derain, André, painter, and Nazis (i)
Descartes, Renée, philosopher 360 Voltaire on (i)
Deschamps, Emile, translator of Shakespeare (i)
Deschamps, Eustache, anti-British poet (i)
Devon, Gytha and Edith invade (i)
Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities (i)
Dien Bien Phu, Ho Chi Minh defeats French (i)
‘Dieu et mon droit’ (i), (ii)
Dincklage, Hans Günther von, Nazi lover of Coco Chanel (i)
Dinwiddie, Robert, Governor of Virginia (i)
Disraeli, Benjamin, and Louis (Prince Imperial) (i)
divorce law, Napoleon’s (i)
Dom Pérignon, Pierre, supposed inventor of Champagne (i), (ii)
Domesday Book (i)
Domrémy, birthplace of Joan of Arc (i), (ii)
Dover, anti-Norman rebellion at (i); see also Secret Treaty
Drake, Elizabeth, mother of Duke of Marlborough (i)
Dronne, Raymond, French liberator of Paris (i)
Dubois, General, at Pondicherry (i)
Ducros, Pierre-Roger, and Napoleon’s coup (i)
Dumas, Alexandre, writer
on beefsteak (i)
on Louis-Philippe (i)n, (ii)
Dunkirk
1940 evacuations (i)
as possible Cold War evacuation site (i)
Durham, anti-Norman revolt at (i)
Dutch War, Third (i), (ii), (iii)
Dylan, Bob (i)
Eadgyth/Mathilde, wife of Henry I (i)
East India Company (i)
Ecole militaire, Napoleon at (i)
Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA) (i)
Ecole normale supérieure (i)
écorcheurs (i)
Eden, Anthony, and Suez (i)
Edgar the Aetheling (i), (ii)
Edith, widow of Harold, invades Devon (i)
Editions de Minuit, Les, anti–Nazi publishers (i)
Edward I King of England (i)
Edward II King of England (i), (ii) painful demise of (iii)
Edward III King of England
(i)
and Burghers of Calais (i)
and Calais (i)
and Crécy (i)
and ‘honi soit qu mal y pense’ (i)
claims French throne (i)
invades France (i), (ii), (iii)
Edward VII King of England (i)
and Entente Cordiale (i)
and erotic furniture (i)
assassination attempt on (i)
favourite brothel (i)
Edward the Black Prince (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Edward the Confessor, King of England, (i)
Egypt
Napoleon’s expedition (i), (ii), (iii)
Suez Canal nationalized (i)
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
and Paris liberation (i)
and Suez (i)
Elba, Napoleon and (i)
Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Louis VII of France and Henry II of England (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III (i)
Elgozy, Georges, on English (i)
Elizabeth I Queen of England (i)
and Mary Queen of Scots (i), (ii), (iii)
and North America (i)
Eluard, Paul, and underground publishing in wartime France (i)
émigrés, French aristocratic (i)
Pitt acts to control (i)
Empey, Arthur Guy, Over the Top (i)
ENA see Ecole nationale d’administration
England
and Champagne (i)
and Joan of Arc (i), (ii)
Anglo-Saxon prosperity (i)
as French royal refuge (i)
Black Death (i)
Channel fortifications (i)
French revolutionaries fear invasion by (i)
French visitors and (i)
Louis (Prince Imperial) in (i)
Louis-Philippe in (i), (ii)
Mary Queen of Scots and (i), (ii)
monarchy, Voltaire on (i), (ii)
Napoleon and (i), (ii)
Napoleon III in (i), (ii)
private chevauchées (i), (ii), (iii)
pro-French revolution element (i)
Voltaire in (i)
Witangemot and succession (i)
English, Captain Thomas, inventor of boring machine (i)
English language (i)
favoured by Black Death (i)
Entente Cordiale, Edward VII and (i)
gaffes surrounding centenary of, (i)
Etienne-Henri, cowardly father of King Stephen (i)
Eugene Prince of Savoy, Marlborough and (i)
Eugénie, Empress of France (i), (ii), (iii)
and Edward VII (i)
European currency, Margaret Thatcher and (i)
Eustace of Boulogne (i)
and Bayeux Tapestry (i)
possible contender for English throne (i)
ex–pats
American artists, dancers and writers in Paris (i)
British in post–Napoleonic France (i)
see also émigrés
Fabius, Laurent, confesses to Rainbow Warrior bombing (i)
Fairfax, Lord, English relative of Washington (i)
Falaise, Normandy (i)
Falklands, France and (i)
Falklands war, France and (i)
Falstof, Sir John, sponsor of private chevauchées (i)
Farquhar, George, on Champagne (i)
Faulkner, William, on the past xiii, (i)
Fersen, Count Hans Axel von
alleged affair with Marie–Antoinette (i)
and American Independence (i)n
feudal system, ended by Black Death (i)
Field of the Cloth of Gold (i)
Fieschi, Giuseppe, assassination attempt on Louis-Philippe (i)
Flambard, Ranulf, first prisoner to escape from Tower of London (i)
Flaubert, Gustave, on English (i)
Fleming, Ian, and the banning of French brothels (i)
Fleur de Mai, French ship (i)
Florida, ceded to Britain (i)
Folies Bergère
Edward VII and (i), (ii)
Josephine Baker and (i)
Fontainebleau castle, Charles II at (i)
Fontenoy, Battle of (i)
proposed new name for Gare du Nord (i)
Fontevraud, Royal Abbey of (i)
football, Tommies teach French how to play (i)
Forces françaises de l’intérieur (FFI) (i)
Forneron, Henri, on émigrés (i)
Fort Arkansas (i)
Fort des Miamis (i)
Fort Duquesne (i), (ii)
Fort Necessity, Washington’s only military defeat (i)
Fort Rosalie, massacre at (i)
Fort St David, Lally’s seige (i)
Fourteenth Light Dragoons, and King Joseph’s chamber pot (i)
fox hunting, at Pau (i)
France
and American revolution (i), (ii)
and Falklands (i)
and Falklands war (i)
attitude to colonies (i)
Black Death (i)
cuisine (i)
discovery of New World (i)
Edward VII speaks of friendship (i)
in dark ages (i)
invades Wales by mistake (i)
Mary Queen of Scots and (i), (ii), (iii)
Franco-Norman language (i)
Franco-Prussian War, Edward VII and (i)
François I King of France
and North America (i)
Henry VIII and (i)
François II King of France, husband of Mary Queen of Scots (i)
Francophobia, American (i)
Franklin, Benjamin, success in Paris (i)
Frankton, Operation (i)
Fraser, Antonia, on Mary Queen of Scots (i)
Free French
and security breaches (i), (ii)
commandos (i)
de Gaulle and (i)
Freedom, fries, pancakes, toast, etc (i)
French, Field Marshal Sir John (i)
French language
Jacques Toubon defends (i)
spoken by WWI soldiers (i)
French Resistance
heroes of (i)
smuggle out fallen airmen (i)
SOE and (i)
French Revolution (i)
British blamed for (i)
British Romantics and (i)
Napoleon and (i)
Quiberon debacle (i)
refugees in England (i)
subsides (i)
French-Canadians, Quebec Act, and (i); see also Acadien
Froissart, Jean, chronicler
on Crécy (i)
on Geoffroy d’Harcourt (i)
Fulton, Robert, offers submarine to French (i)
Gagnière, Claude, on English (i)
Gambetta, Léon, French Republican, meets Edward VII (i), (ii)
Gauguin, Paul, disappointed by Tahiti (i)
Gautier, Théophile, poet (i)
Gavarni, Paul, on English (i)
genocide
Hundred Years War as (i)
William of Normandy and (i)
Genoese
crossbowmen, at Crécy (i), (ii)
war galleys, Philippe VI’s (i)
Geoffrey, son of Henry II (i)
Geoffrey of Anjou, son–in–law of Henry I (i), (ii)
George III King of England
and America (i), (ii)
as model monarch (i)
Napoleon and (i)
Gide, André, on French (i)
Gifford, Gilbert, and Mary Queen of Scots (i)
Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry
obtains d’Estaing title (i)n
on Margaret Thatcher (i)
Glasgow, and stuffed croissants (i)
globalization, by French industry (i)
Glorious Revolution, see Bloodless
Godard, Jean-Luc (i)
Godwin Earl of Wessex (i)
golf
at Pau (i)
played by Mary
Queen of Scots (i), (ii)
Goulue, La, cabaret dancer, Edward VII and (i)
Graham, Harry, on French (i)
Grande Peur (i), (ii)
Graves, Robert
on soldiers and women (i)
on war profiteers (i)
Greenpeace, France and (i)
Grenadier Guards, at Bastille Day parade (i)
Greville, Charles, lover of Lady Hamilton (i)
Greville, Daisy, Edward VII and (i)
Grosley, Pierre–Jean, on London (i)
Grunfield, Marianne, Jewish deportee from Guernsey (i)
Guadeloupe (i)
Guercheville, Antoinette, marquise de, and North America (i)
Guggenheim, Peggy (i)
Guillaume le Conquérant see William the Conquerer
Guillotin, Joseph-Ignace, and humanitarian executions (i), (ii), (iii)
guillotine
French revolutionary career of (i)
Halifax Gibbet (i)
introduction into France of 267 et seq Guise family
and Mary Queen of Scots (i), (ii)
and St Bartholomew’s massacre (i)
Guise, Marie de, mother of Mary Queen of Scots (i), (ii)
Gytha, mother of Harold, invades Devon (i)
Haiti (Saint-Domingue) (i)
Acadiens at (i)
Halidon Hill, Battle of (i)
Halifax Gibbet, original guillotine (i)
Halifax, Nova Scotia (i)
Halley’s Comet, in Bayeux Tapestry (i)
Halliday, F.E., Concise History of England (i)
Hallyday, Johnny (i)
Hamilton, Emma, Nelson and (i)
Hamilton, Sir William (i)
Harald Hardrada (i)
Harald the Viking (i)
Hardy, Captain Sir Thomas, and Nelson (i)
Harfleur, Henry V at (i)
Harold Godwinson (i)
at Battle of Hastings (i)
at Stamford Bridge (i)
Bayeux Tapestry depiction (i)
becomes King of England (i)
hostage in Normandy (i)
Harrison, Colonel Richard, and Louis (Prince Imperial) (i)
Harrison, William, on Halifax Gibbet (i)
Hasler, Herbie, and Operation Frankton (i)
Hastings, Battle of (i)
Hawke, Admiral Sir Edward (i)
Hemans, Felicia, ‘burning deck’ poetess (i)
Hemingway, Ernest, in Paris (i)
Hendrix, Jimi, in Paris (i)
Henri II King of France
and Calais (i), (ii)
and Mary Queen of Scots (i)
Henri III King of France, and Mary Queen of Scots (i), (ii)
Henri IV King of France
and Canada (i)
murder of (i)
Henriette Marie, mother of Charles II (i)
Henry ‘The Young King’ (i)
Henry I (Beauclerc) King of England (i), (ii)
and lampreys (i)
Henry II (Plantagenet) King of England (i), (ii)
and Eleanor of Aquitaine (i), (ii)
and Thomas Becket (i)
Henry III King of England (i), (ii)
Henry V King of England (i), (ii)
1000 Years of Annoying the French Page 59