The Secret Life of France

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by Lucy Wadham

Gaulle, Charles de, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; admires British culture, 1;

and Americans, 1, 2, 3, 4;

and the épuration, 1;

on equality, 1;

and the media, 1, 2;

and Mers-el-Kebir, 1;

on money, 1;

and NATO, 1;

nuclear policy, 1, 2;

personality, 1;

Rambouillet meeting, 1;

and student uprisings, 1;

‘wiping the slate clean’, 1

Gaullists, 1

Gendarmerie, gendarmes, 1, 2, 3, 4

Genestar, Alain, 1

Gensoul, Admiral, 1

Gerlier, Cardinal, 1

Gestapo, 1, 2, 3, 4

Ghadafi, Muammar, 1

GIA (Islamic Armed Group), 1, 2, 3, 4

Gide, André, 1, 2, 3

Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry, 1, 2, 3

Godard, Jean-Luc, 1

Gréco, Juliette, 1

Green, Julian, 1, 2

Greene, Graham, 1

guilt, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; post-feminist, 1

Hachichi, Wahid, 1

Haine, La (Hate) (film), 1, 2

Hansen, Alan, 1

health system, 1, 2, 3, 4

Hemingway, Ernest, 1

Henri IV de Navarre, King of France, 1

Herri Batasuna, 1

hidjab issue, 1, 2, 3

Hill, Benny, 1

Hill, Dennis, 1n

Hiroshima, 1

Hitler, Adolf, 1, 2, 3

Hollande, François: attitude to rich, 1; Economist critique of, 1;

introduces flexible labour laws, 1;

and healthcare, 1;

tax on wealthy, 1

Holocaust (Shoah), 1, 2, 3, 4

Holy Loch, Scotland, 1, 2

Hortefeux, Brice, 1

house-buying, rural, 1

Hugo, Victor, 1

Huguenots, 1, 2

Hussein, Saddam, 1, 2n

IAM, 1

ideas: in countryside, 1; French addiction to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

mistrust of, 1, 2;

in the Second World War, 1, 2;

and television, 1, 2;

vs. reality, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

ideology: death of, 1, 2;

socialist, 1

immigrants, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; in Britain, 1

inquisitorial system, 1

INSERM, 1

Iran, 1, 2, 3

Iraq War (2003–11; 2nd Gulf War), 1, 2, 3

Ireland, 1

Irigaray, Luce, 1

Islamic Salvation Army (AIS), 1

Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), 1, 2, 3

Islamists, 1, 2, 3

Islamophobia, 1

Israel, 1

Israeli Army, 1

Izieu orphanage, 1

Izzard, Eddie, 1

Jacquot, Benoît, 1

James, Oliver, 1n

Jaruzelski, General Wojciech, 1

Jesuits, 1, 2

Jews, 1, 2; and the Barbie trial, 1;

and the Cévenols, 1;

and the Christian community, 1;

deportation of, 1, 2, 3;

hidden in Cévennes, 1;

les Juifs Tun, 1;

French, survive Shoah, 1;

the Vel d’Hiv raid, 1;

and Vichy, 1, 2;

see also anti-Semitism; Holocaust Joan of Arc, 1, 2, 3

Johnson, Boris, 1

Joliot-Curie, Frédéric and Irene, 1

Jospin, Lionel, 1

Joyce, James, 1

Jung, Carl, 1

Juppé, Prime Minister Alain, 1, 2

Kabyles (Berbers), 1, 2, 3

Kahn, Jean-François, 1

Kassovitz, Mathieu, 1

Katkov, Arkadi, 1n

Kelkal, Khaled, 1

Kennedy, John F., 1, 2, 3, 4

Kissinger, Henry, 1

Klarsfeld, Serge, 1, 2

Kluiters, Nicolas, 1n

Knochen, Helmut, 1n

Kristeva, Julia, 1

Lahaie, Brigitte, 1

Lang, Jack, 1

Laval, Prime Minister Pierre, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Le Pen, Jean-Marie, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Le Pen, Marine, 1, 2

Lebanon, 1

Legendre, Claire, 1

Léger, Fernand, 1

Lévy, Bernard-Henri, 1, 2

Libya, 1

Lithuania, 1

Lloyd George, David, 1, 2

Locke, John, 1

London: the Blitz, 1; bomb attacks (2005), 1;

number of French in, 1

Louis XIV, King of France, 1, 2, 3, 4

Loyola, St Ignatius de, 1

Lyon, 1, 2

Macmillan, Harold (later Earl of Stockton), 1, 2, 3

McNamara, Robert, 1

Madmen (TV series), 1

Maginot Line, 1, 2

Maison Blanche Metro station, Paris: bombing (1995), 1

Malraux, André, 1

Mandela, Nelson, 1

Mandelson, Peter, 1n

Mao Zedong, 1

Maoists, 1

Marchais, Georges, 1

Marseille, 1, 2

Marxism, 1, 2, 3

Materazzi, Marco, 1, 2, 3

Matisse, Henri, 1

Mauriac, François, 1

Maurin, General, 1

May ’68 student riots, 1, 2, 3

Mayle, Peter, 1

mayors, 1

Mélanchon, Jean-Luc, 1

Menon, Sri, 1

Mépris, Le (Contempt) (film), 1

meritocracy, 1, 2

Mers-el-Kebir: destruction of French

fleet (1940), 1, 2

MI5, 1

MI6 (La Six), 1, 2, 3

Michelet, Jules, 1

Milice, 1, 2, 3, 4

Milieu, Le (mafia), 1

Miller, Jacques-Alain, 1

Millet, Catherine, 1, 2

Ministry for Towns, 1

Ministry of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Development in Solidarity, 1

Minkowski, Professor, 1, 2, 3

Mitterrand, Danielle, 1, 2, 3

Mitterrand, François, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; and Algeria, 1;

and Bruguière, 1;

and his daughter Mazarine, 1, 2, 3;

double life, 1, 2, 3;

invites the communists into his cabinet, 1;

and mayors, 1;

and the media, 1;

and his mistress, 1, 2;

nationalisations, 1;

numerous infidelities, 1, 2;

and the PCF, 1, 2;

and socialism, 1;

the suburbs, 1, 2;

and Vichy, 1

Mitterrand, Gilbert, 1

Mitterrand, Jean-Christophe, 1

Montebourg, Arnaud, 1

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de, 1

Montluc prison, Lyon, 1

Moody’s, 1

Moore, Marianne, 1

Mossad, 1

Moulin, Jean, 1, 2

‘Mr Bean’ (Rowan Atkinson), 1

MRP (Mouvement Républicain Populaire), 1

Mujahideen, 1n

Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 1

music, 1, 2, 3

Muslim minorities, 1, 2, 3

Napoleon Bonaparte, 1, 2, 3, 4; death of, 1;

and education, 1;

excels at Maths, 1;

and ideas, 1;

and inheritance rights, 1n;

judgement of England, 1;

personality, 1;

as a sex dwarf, 1

Napoleonic Marital Code, 1n

Nassau Agreement (1962), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

National Assembly, 1, 2

National Front, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

National Revolution, 1

NATO, 1, 2

Nazi Occupation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; barbarity of, 1;

in Cévennes, 1;

Paris under the Nazis, 1, 2, 3

Neuilly, 1

Ni Putes Ni Soumises (Neither Whores Nor Victims), 1

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1

nobility, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

norm, the, 1, 2, 3, 4

Norstad, General Lauris, 1

nuclear policy, 1

OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), 1

‘Operation Chrysanthemum’, 1

Ophüls, Marcel, 1, 2, 3

Ouguenoune, Hocine, 1n

Oussekine, Malik, 1

paediatricians, 1

Palais des Congrès, Paris, 1

Palais du Louvre, Paris, 1

Palestinians, 1

Papon, Maurice, 1

Paris: bombings (1990s), 1, 2, 3, 4; comparison with Cévennes, 1, 2;

in the congé payé, 1;

driving in, 1;

‘gay Paree’, 1;

hospital service, 1;

hostility and mistrust, 1;

and image of countryside, 1;

mass demonstrations, 1, 2;

Nazi Occupation, 1;

parks, 1;

Peace Conference (1919), 1;

rudeness, 1

Paris Opera, 1

Pasqua, Charles, 1

patriarchy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

PCF (Parti Communiste Français), 1, 2, 3

Pearson, Allison, 1

Peet, John, 1

Pelchat amendment, 1n

Peretti, Professor Charles, 1

Perrault, Charles, 1

Peshawar military training camp, northern Pakistan, 1

Pétain, Maréchal Philippe, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Pétainists, 1

Peugeot, 1

Peyrefitte, Alain, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Peyrolles, Gilles Sydney, 1

physiotherapists (kinésithérapeutes), 1, 2

Piano, Renzo, 1

Picasso, Pablo, 1

Pingeot, Anne, 1, 2, 3

Pingeot-Mitterrand, Mazarine, 1, 2, 3

Pinhas, Richard, 1

plastic surgery, 1

pleasure, pursuit of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

PMU (Pari Mutuel Urbain), 1

Poland, 1n, 2

Polaris missiles, 1, 2, 3

police, 1, 2; Police Nationale, 1, 2

politicians, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Pompidou, Georges, 1, 2, 3, 4

Pompidou Centre, Paris, 1

Popular Front, 1

Popular Tribunals, 1

Port-Royal RER station, Paris: bombing (1996), 1

Porzemparc, Christian de, 1

Préfecture de Police, Paris, 1

pregnancy and childbirth, 1

press, the: Catholic values, 1; and the jardin secret, 1;

and sex, 1, 2

Protestants/puritans: and Anglo-Saxon society, 1; approach to faith, 1;

Catholic We vs. Protestant I, 1, 2, 3;

a culture based on confidence, 1;

and feminism, 1;

French vs. Protestant characteristics, 1;

guilt, 1, 2, 3;

the joy of participating in sport, 1;

and Marxism, 1;

mistrust for the cult of appearances, 1;

personal experience, 1;

relationship with the deity, 1;

and transparency, 1, 2;

vision of sex as dirty, 1;

work ethic, 1

Proust, Marcel, 1

Provence, 1

psychoanalysis, 1, 2, 3, 4

Puyméras, Vaucluse, 1, 2, 3

racism, racists, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

radio, French, 1, 2

RAF (Royal Air Force), 1

Rainbow Warrior fiasco, 1

Rake, Denis, 1

Rambouillet meeting (1962), 1

Ramda, Rachid (Abou Farès), 1, 2

Ravensbrück concentration camp, 1

Reagan, Ronald, 1

reality, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; vs. ideas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

régimes spéciaux, 1

religion: intolerance towards, 1; see also Catholicism; Jews; Protestants/puritans

Rémond, Réné, 1

Renseignements Généraux (RG), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

republican dream, 1, 2, 3

Revenu de solidarité active (RSA), 1

Rhys, Jean, 1

riots, 1, 2

Rocard, Michel, 1, 2

Rogers, Richard, 1

Röthke, Heinz, 1n

Royal, Ségolène, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

RTF (National Radio and Television), 1

rudeness, 1

rugby, 1

Saint Antoine et Tenon hospital, Paris, 1

Saint-Denis University, Paris (‘Paris 8’), 1

Saint-Michel underground station, Paris: bombing (1995), 1

Salic Law, 1

Saliège, Cardinal, 1

Sarajevo, 1

Sarkozy, Cécilia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Sarkozy, Nicolas, 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; and 2008

economic crisis, 1;

and Amara, 1, 2, 3;

autobiography, 1;

bans burqa, 1;

and celebrity culture, 1, 2;

divorce, 1;

and DSK affair, 1;

fondness for the police, 1;

and healthcare, 1;

and ideology, 1, 2;

jardin secret, 1;

Jewish heritage, 1, 2;

and Le Pen, 1;

and the media, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

presidential campaign, 1;

reforms, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

and Royal, 1, 2, 3;

a self-made man, 1;

as a sex dwarf, 1, 2;

and Squarcini, 1;

symbolized by Rolex, 1, 2;

and unemployment, 1;

and the unions, 1, 2;

unpopularity of, 1, 2, 3;

on the value of work, 1

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1, 2

School of Political Science (Sciences Po), Paris, 1, 2

Second World War, 1, 2; Barbie trial (1987), 1;

France’s swift and total defeat (1940), 1;

French armistice, 1, 2;

Hiroshima, 1;

Maginot Line, 1;

Mers-el-Kebir, 1, 2;

privation, 1;

Vel d’Hiv raid (1942), 1;

see also Nazi Occupation

Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), 1

Septième Ciel, Le (film), 1

Serbia, 1

sex: adultery, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; in advertising, 1;

DSK affair, 1;

erotic timorousness of English boys, 1;

jardin secret (secret garden), 1, 2, 3, 4;

libido, 1, 2, 3;

and love, 1;

multiple partners, 1;

and politicians, 1, 2, 3;

and power, 1;

and the press, 1, 2, 3;

Protestant vision of sex as dirty, 1;

the pursuit of pleasure, 1, 2, 3, 4;

seduction, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

sexual harassment and the law, 1;

sexual liberation, 1;

swingers’ clubs, 1, 2;

women as mysterious and fascinating creatures, 1

sex dwarves, 1, 2, 3

sexism, 1, 2

Shearer, Alan, 1, 2

Simeone, Diego, 1

Sinclair, Anne, 1, 2

Skybolt, 1, 2, 3

SM (Algerian intelligence service), 1

social welfare, 1, 2, 3

socialism, 1, 2, 3

Socialist Party, 1, 2

Société Psychoanalytique de Paris (SPP), 1, 2, 3

Socrates, 1

soixante-huitards, les (sixty-eighters), 1, 2

SOL (Service d’Ordre Lègionnaire), 1

Solaar, MC, 1, 2

solidarité (solidarity), 1, 2, 3

Solidarity movement, 1

Somerville, Admiral, 1

Sorbonne, Paris, 1, 2, 3

Spinoza, Baruch, 1

Squarcini, Bernard, 1

SS, 1

Stalin, Joseph, 1

Standard & Poor’s, 1

State, the: dominates and pampers the individual, 1; and healthcare, 1;

and the ideal of freedom, 1;

powerful and interventionist, 1;

and radio, 1;

separation of Church and State (2005), 1

status, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Stein, Gertrude, 1

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1

Stourton, Edward, 1

Strauss-Kahn, Dominique, 1

strikes, 1, 2, 3, 4

Suez crisis (1956), 1

suicide, 1

SWAT, 1

Sweeney, John, 1n

swingers’ clubs (clubs échangistes), 1, 2

taxation, 1

television, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Territorial Army, 1

terroir, 1

TF1, 1

TGV line bomb (1995), 1

Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness, 1, 2, 3

Thiel, Gilbert, 1

Thuram, Lilian, 1

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1, 2

Touchent, Ali, 1

Touvier, Paul, 1

Toxteth riots, 1

trade unions, 1

tragic, the, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

transparency, 1, 2, 3, 4

Trappist monks of Tiberine, murder of (1996), 1, 2

Tripoli, 1, 2

Tunisia, 1, 2

Tzara, Tristan, 1

unemployment, 1, 2, 3

United Nations (UN), 1

United States: ‘Atoms for Peace’ programme, 1; Camp David meet ing (1960), 1;

capitalism, 1;

Iraq War, 1, 2;

Nassau Agree ment, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

Paris Peace Conference (1919), 1;

relationship with Britain, 1, 2;

Second World War, 1;

secret ser vice, 1;

Treaty of Versailles, 1;

World Trade Center attacks (2001), 1;

see also anti-Americanism

UTA airline DC-10 bombing (1989), 1

Vaulx-en-Velin, 1, 2; riots (1990), 1, 2

Vedrine, Hubert, 1

Vel d’Hiv raid (1942), 1

Vergès, Jacques, 1, 2

verlan (a form of French slang), 1

Vernet, Daniel, 1n

Versailles, Treaty of (1919), 1, 2

Versailles experiment, 1

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