by Graham Robb
Ogier, Jean ref
Oïl language ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Omalius d’Halloy, Jean-Baptiste-Julien d’ ref
Opportuna, Saint ref
Ordnance Survey (UK) ref
Orry, Philibert ref
paganism ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Paris–Brest–Paris bicycle race ref, ref
Pariset, Mme ref
Parisian dialect xv Parisian France ref, ref, ref
Parisians ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Pasteur, Louis ref, ref
patois ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
patriotism ref, ref
local ref, ref
national ref
Payan, Ferdinand ref
pays ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
peasants ref
anticipation of misfortune ref
boredom ref
death ref, ref
ignorance ref
laws ref
lives of ref, ref, ref, ref
professions ref
sloth ref, ref
and tourism ref, ref, ref
and travel ref
women ref
pébrine epidemic ref
pedlars (colporteurs) ref, ref
Peninsular War ref
Perdiguier, Agricol ref, ref
Pétain, Henri-Philippe, Maréchal ref
Peter, Saint ref, ref
‘peyre-hita’ ref
phonolithic rock ref
phylloxera epidemic ref, ref
Pic, Joseph ref
Picard dialect ref, ref, ref, ref
Pictavi (Gallic tribe) ref
Pigault-Lebrun (Charles Pigault de l’Épinoy) ref
Pignou (or Pinçou) clan ref, ref
pigs ref
pilgrims ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Pinkney, Lieutenant-Colonel Ninian ref, ref
‘pique, la’ ref
Pissoux, Saint ref
Pius VII, Pope ref
Pius IX, Pope ref
place names ref, ref, ref, ref
place nicknames ref
Pliny the Elder ref, ref, ref, ref
Plouradou, Saint ref
Pococke, Richard ref
Poitevin dialect ref, ref
police ref
politics ref
Polletais clan ref
Pompadour, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de ref
Pompidou, Georges ref
Ponts et Chaussées ref
poor, the ref
see also peasants
population ref, ref, ref
Pothier, Lucien ref
poultry ref
Powell, John Wesley ref
Prefects xvi, ref, ref, ref
priests ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Privat d’Anglemont, Alexandre ref
professions ref
prostitution ref
Protestants ref, ref
literacy ref
persecution ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
and politics ref
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph ref
Proust, Marcel ref, ref
Provençal (language) xv, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
proverbs ref, ref, ref
Prussians ref, ref, ref, ref
public coaches ref, ref, ref, ref
high-speed ref, ref
Pyrenees, Treaty of the (1659) ref
Rabaut, Paul ref
Racine, Jean ref, ref
racism ref, ref
raft trains ref
railway workers ref
railways ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Ramond de Carbonnières, Louis ref
Reclus, Onésime ref
regional pride/identity ref, ref
Reine, Saint ref
Renan, Ernest ref
Renard, Jules ref, ref
Republicanism ref
Résistance ref, ref, ref
Restif de la Bretonne, Nicolas-Edmé ref, ref, ref
Restoration government ref
Restoration of Mountain Terrains service ref
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) ref, ref
Revolution (1789) xv, ref, ref, ref, ref
and the cagots ref
and civil order ref
and the dechristianization of France ref
and the départements ref
and the Great Fear ref
and independent villages ref, ref
legacy ref
and linguistic diversity ref, ref, ref
renegade priests of ref
rural populations of ref
and the storming of the Bastille ref
Revolution (1830) ref, ref
Revolution (1848) ref
Richard’s guide ref
Richelieu, Armand-Jean du Plessis,
Cardinal de ref
Rimbaud, Arthur ref, ref
Riquet, Pierre-Paul ref
rivers ref, ref
inter-oceanic system ref
see also specific rivers
road-menders (cantonniers) ref
roads ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
gradients ref, ref
livestock ref
‘strategic’ ref
see also Roman roads
Robespierre, Maximilien de ref, ref
Roman architecture ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Roman roads ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Romanic languages ref
Romans ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
ancestry claims ref, ref, ref
and religion ref, ref
traders ref
see also Caesar, Julius
Rougier de Labergerie, Jean-Baptiste ref, ref
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques ref
Roussillonnais ref
Routiers (mercenaries) ref
royalists ref, ref, ref
Saint Bartholomew Day’s massacre ref
Saint Bernards (dog breed) ref
Saint-Hilaire, Mme ref
Saint-Napoléon Day ref
saints ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
salt ref
Sand, George ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Sanis, Jean-Léon ref
sanitation ref
Saracens ref, ref
Saturn ref, ref
Saussure, Horace-Bénédict de ref, ref, ref
Savoie (Savoy), royal house of ref, ref
Savoyard dialects ref
Savoyard migrants ref, ref
Schneider family ref
science ref
Scott, Walter ref
Scythians ref
sea-side resorts ref
seasons ref
Second Empire ref, ref
‘Second French Revolution’ (1792) ref
secularism ref
self-governance ref
Sequayre, Saint ref
Seven Years War ref, ref
sex
pre-marital ref
and tourism ref
sheep ref, ref, ref, ref
Shelley, Percy Bysshe ref
shepherds ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
shepherds’ huts (burons) ref
shipwrecks ref
Shuadit (Judeo-Provençal) language ref
silkworms ref
Simpson, Tom ref
slavery ref
sledges ref
Smollett, Tobias ref, ref
smuggler dogs ref, ref
smugglers ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Société de Géographie ref, ref
Society for the Protection of Animals ref
Society for the Protection of Children ref
solstice ref, ref
Soubirous, Bernadette ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Soumet, Alexandre ref
Sourdeau, Saint ref
spa towns ref, ref, ref
spells ref
standing stones
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steamboats ref
Stendhal (Henri Beyle) ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Stevenson, Robert Louis ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
stilts ref
stonemasons ref
Stothard, Charles ref
Strabo ref, ref, ref
strikes ref
superstition ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Taine, Hippolyte ref, ref, ref
Tastu, Amable ref
taxation ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Taylor, J. Bayard ref
telegraph ref, ref, ref
Terront, Charles ref
Terror, the ref, ref
TGV rail network ref, ref
Thicknesse, Philip ref
Thiébault, General Paul ref
Third Republic ref, ref, ref, ref
thyroid problems ref
Todd, Emmanuel ref
Tour de France (apprentices’ itinerary) ref, ref, ref
Tour de France bicycle race ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Touring-Club de France ref
tourism ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
touristes ref
Tourtoulon, Charles de ref
Toussaint (All Saints’ Day) ref
trade ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
transhumance xvi, ref, ref, ref, ref
Trappist monks ref
travel ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Trésaguet, Pierre ref, ref, ref, ref
triangulation ref, ref, ref
tribal France ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
legends of ancestry ref, ref
see also specific tribes
troglodytes ref, ref, ref, ref
Trudaine, Charles-Daniel ref
Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Turner, Joseph Mallord William ref
Union Compagnonnique des Devoirs Unis ref
Urban, Saint ref
urban populations ref, ref
see also Parisians
urbanization ref
Vaissettes, Bête des ref
Vauban, Sébastien le Prestre de ref, ref
Vendée uprising ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Vénier, Saint ref
Venus (goddess) ref
Venus (planet) ref
Vercingetorix ref
Verdun, Treaty of (843) ref
Vérin, Saint ref
Verne, Jules ref, ref, ref, ref
Vianney, Jean-Marie, ‘le curé d’Ars’ ref
Vichy régime ref
Victor de l’Aveyron ref
Vigny, Alfred de ref, ref, ref
Vikings ref, ref
Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne), Ordinances of (1539) ref
Virgin of Lourdes ref, ref, ref, ref
Virgin Mary ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Visigoths ref, ref
Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia and Duke of Savoy ref
Walpole, Horace ref
‘waltzing stone’ ref
Welche clan/dialect ref
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of ref
werewolves ref, ref, ref
White Terror, The ref
wild cats ref
‘wild people’ ref, ref, ref
wilderness ref, ref, ref
wildlife ref, ref, ref
Wille, Johann Georg ref
Windham, William ‘Boxing’ ref, ref, ref, ref
wine ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
winter ref
witchcraft ref, ref, ref
wolves ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
women, peasant ref
revenge of ref
rights ref
status ref
working ref, ref, ref
Wordsworth, William ref
World War I ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
World War II xvii, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Young, Arthur ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Yves, Saint ref
Zarphatic (Judeo-French) language ref
Zeus ref
Zidane, Zinédine ref
ZNIEFF (Zone Naturelle d’Intérêt Écologique, Faunistique et Floristique) ref
Zola, Émile ref, ref, ref
Zola, François ref
zone of silence ref
Geographical Index
NOTE: page numbers followed by an ‘n’ refer to footnotes.
Aachen see Aix-la-Chapelle/Aachen
Aas (Hautes-Pyrénées) ref
Abriès (Hautes-Alpes) ref
Adour river ref, ref
Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) ref, ref
Agincourt, Battle of ref
Agon-Coutainville (Manche) ref
Aigues-Mortes (Gard) ref
Aiguilles (Hautes-Alpes) ref, ref
Aiguillon (Lot-et-Garonne) ref
Aiguines (Var) ref
Aisne river ref, ref
Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône) ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Aix-la-Chapelle/Aachen ref
Aix-les-Bains (Savoie) ref
Algeria ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Algiers ref
Aliermont (Seine-Maritime) ref
Alise-Sainte-Reine (Côte-d’Or) ref
Allier river ref, ref
Alpes mancelles (Sarthe) ref
Alps ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
cuisine ref, ref
daily life in the ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
deforestation ref, ref
education ref
First World War ref
livestock ref
maps ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
rivers ref
roads ref
touristes ref, ref
travel ref, ref, ref
Alps of Provence ref, ref
Alps of Savoy ref, ref, ref
Alsace, province ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Alsace-Lorraine ref, ref, ref, ref
Alyscamps, Arles ref, ref
Ambert (Puy-de-Dôme) ref
Americas ref, ref, ref
Amiens (Somme) ref, ref, ref
Amiens Cathedral ref
Ancenis (Loire-Atlantique) ref
Les Andelys (Eure) ref
Andorra ref
Andrézieux (Loire) ref
Ange Gardien, Col de l’ (Hautes-Alpes) ref
Angers (Maine-et-Loire) ref, ref, ref, ref
Angoulême (Charente) ref, ref, ref, ref
Angoumois, province ref
Anjou, province ref, ref, ref, ref
Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes) ref
Antony (Hauts-de-Seine) ref
Aosta see Valle d’Aosta
Aquitaine ref
Aramits (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) ref
Arc de Triomphe, Paris ref
Arcachon (Gironde) ref, ref, ref
Arcachon Basin ref, ref
Arcueil (Val-de-Marne) ref
Ardèche gorges ref
Ardennes region ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Argelès-Gazost (Hautes-Pyrénées) ref, ref
Argoat, Brittany ref
Argonne region ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Ariège département ref
Aries (Bouches-du-Rhône) ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Armagnac region ref, ref
Armand, Aven (Lozère) ref
Armor, Brittany ref
Armorican peninsula ref
Arpajon (Essonne) ref
Arras (Pas-de-Calais) ref, ref
Arreau (Hautes-Pyrénées) ref
Arromanches (Calvados) ref
Ars-sur-Formans (Ain) ref
Art-sur-Meurthe (Meurthe-et-Moselle) ref
Artois, province ref, ref
Arve river ref
Arvieux (Hautes-Alpes) ref
Asnieres-sur-Seine, Dog Cemetery (Hauts-de-Seine) ref, ref
Atlantic coast ref,
ref, ref, ref, ref
Atlantic Ocean ref, ref, ref
Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) ref, ref
AuBêterre-sur-Dronne (Charente) ref
Aubigny-sur-Nère (Cher) ref
Aubin (Aveyron) ref, ref
Aubisque, Col d’ (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) ref
Aubrac region ref, ref
Aubry-en-Exmes (Orne) ref
Auch (Gers) ref, ref
Audressein (Ariège) ref
Aulus-les-Bains (Ariège) ref
Aumont (Lozère) ref
Aunis, province ref
Autun (Saône-et-Loire) ref, ref
Autun Cathedral ref, ref
Auvergne, province ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Bête du Gévaudan ref
cuisine ref, ref
daily life ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
fashion ref
healers of ref
livestock ref
maps ref
rivers ref
roads ref, ref
Romans ref
spas ref
tourism ref, ref
Auxerre (Yonne) ref, ref
Auxois region ref
Avesnes-sur-Helpe (Nord) ref
Aveyron département ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Avignon (Vaucluse) ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Ayen, Col d’ (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) ref
Badger’s Eyes, Montpellier-le-Vieux ref
Bagnères-de-Bigorre (Hautes-Pyrénées) ref
Bagneux, dolmen (Maine-et-Loire) ref, ref
Balkans ref
Barbary Coast ref
Barbonville (Meurthe-et-Moselle) ref
Barcelona ref, ref
Barcelonnette (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) ref, ref
Barèges (Hautes-Pyrénées) ref, ref, ref, ref
Bas-Poitou, province ref
Bas-Rhin département ref
Basque Country ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Basses-Alpes département (now Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) ref, ref, ref
La Bastide, nr le Massegros (Lozère) ref
Bastille, Paris ref, ref, ref, ref
Bauduen (Var) ref
Baumes-Fères, Verdon Gorges ref
Bauzon, forest (Ardèche) ref
Bayard, Col (Hautes-Alpes) ref
Bayeux (Calvados) ref
Bayonne (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Béarn, province ref, ref
Beaucaire (Gard) ref, ref
Beauce region ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref
Beaufortain Alps ref
Beaujolais region ref