Стефан Кларк: 1000 Years of Annoying the French

French pillaging 147

Acadiens

deportation 154

refugees 159, 233, 259

Aélis, daughter of William I, forcibly betrothed to Harold Godwinson 14

Agincourt, Battle of 53, 81

casualties 85

horse named 508

Ainsworth, William Harrison, on John Law 221

Alençon, Jean, Duke, bludgeoned at Agincourt 86

Alexander I Tsar, at Congress of Vienna 341

Alexander VI, Pope (Rodrigo Borgia),

illegitimate children 139

ignores French claims in the New World 139

Alexandra, tolerant wife of Edward VII 391, 397

Alfred the Great, King of England reason for Greatness 2

Algeria, French colonization 468, 469, 471, 472

Aliens Act, against French émigrés 296

Amadas, Philip, grabs Virginia 146

America

British softness in 236

causes/cures phylloxera epidemic 386

de Gaulle’s aversion to 438, 475

Napoleon’s cut-price sale of 242

why not French 211

American cultural expats in Paris 418

American Revolution, French aid during 236, 237

Amiens, Peace of 322

Anarchy, The, Mathilde/Stephen war 37

Anet, chateau of Diane de Poitiers 118

anglicisms adopted by French in WWI 411

Anglo-Norman kings 33

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

on torture during The Anarchy 37

insults William I 27, 29

Anglo-Saxon language 30

Anglo-Saxons

Barack Obama considered as one 20n

hatred of Normans 11 et seq

outdated battle tactics of 17

Ango, Jean, funds exploration of North America 141

Anjou, Hercule-François Duke of, suitor for Elizabeth I 132

Annaud, Jean-Jacques, on French 516

Anne Queen of England, and Marlborough 194

Anne Queen Regent of France, mother of Louis XIV 163, 164

Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans (Mademoiselle), Charles II’s wooing 167

Anon, French author of quotation on English cooking 516

Anti-Royalist massacres 289, 297

Antommarchi, François Carlo, autopsies Napoleon 347

Aprise, Sir Griffen, at Field of Cloth of Gold 109

Aragon, Louis, and underground publishing during WWII 445

archeologists, French, in Egypt 312, 317, 350

archery, English discovery and adoption of 58, 62, 65

Argall, Samuel, eradicates French settlements in Acadie 149

Armagnacs

écorcheurs 78

end French in-fighting 101

seek help from Henry V 79

support Dauphin (Charles VII) 91

Armée des Alpes, Napoleon revives 310

Armentières, Mademoiselle from, 410

artillery, French develop 101

Assemblée nationale, creation of 281

Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen 282

Aufray, Hugues, translator of Bob Dylan 480

Austerlitz, Battle and railway station 330

Austria, Marlborough and 195

Austrians, innovators in breadmaking 355, 356

avantgarde art movement, Peggy Guggenheim and 418

Azincourt see Agincourt

Babington, Anthony, admirer of Mary Queen of Scots 133

Bacon, Jeanne, indirectly causes Battle of Crécy 63

baguette , origin of 354

Baker, Josephine, semi-naked American dancer 418

on French insults 515

ballooning, Napoleon and 323

bandits, English, and Hundred Years War 53, 77

Bannockburn, Battle of 51

Banque Royale

John Law creates 222

John Law ruins 224

Barbanera, Genoese sailor 61, 62

Barbinais, Le Gentil de la, discredited circumnavigation 259

Baré, Jean(ne), extraordinary botanist’s assistant 260, 261

Barings Bank, and Louisiana Purchase 246

Barlowe, Arthur, grabs Virginia 146

barons, English, and Magna Carta 49

Barras, Paul, lover of Josephine 310

Basile, Pierre, shoots Richard I 46

Basque fishermen, discover Newfoundland 140

Bastille, reasons for storming 278

Bastille Day celebrations 276

military parade 506

Battle Abbey 23

Baudelaire, Charles, poetry influenced by Brits 366

Baudricourt, Robert de, convinced by Joan of Arc 92

Bayeux Tapestry

as anti-Norman propaganda 28

as supposedly historical record 5, 7, 13

Bazille, Gaston, and phylloxera 386

Beauharnais, Josephine (Rose) 310, 316

affair with cavalryman 316

creator of tea rose 319

Napoleon divorces 331

‘Not tonight …’ 310

dies 338

Beaujeu, Tanguy le Gallois de, sails to Gulf of Mexico 217

Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de

as arms dealer 238

author of Barber of Seville and Marriage of Figaro 238

on English 512

Beauvoir, see de Beauvoir

Becket, Thomas, murdered Archbishop 33, 40

Beckett, Samuel, writer, in Paris 418

Bedford, John of Lancaster, Duke of, Henry VI’s regent, buys Joan of Arc 97

beef

English ‘invent’ le steak 353

mad-cow disease 490

Béhuchet, Nicolas, incompetent French admiral 61

Belle-Ile-en-Mer

Acadien museum on 139

Acadiens settle on 160

Bellerophon , HMS prevents Napoleon’s escape 345

Bellknappe, Sir Edward, at Field of Cloth of Gold 109

Benn, Tony, and Concorde 474

Berkhamsted, William of Normandy visits 21

Bernard the Dane 3

Berthon, Simon, on de Gaulle 458

Bertrand, Guillaume, friend of Philippe VI 63

Béthune, Robert Graves at 406

Biard, Father, alleged treachery of 149

biftek see beef

Billori, Martin, Inquisitor of France, wants to burn Joan of Arc 97

Biloxi, French fort 223

Bismarck, Otto von

and Sedan 376

and siege of Paris 403

Black Death, proves advantageous to English 73

Black Prince 60, 66, 70, 77

Blackadder, William, and death of Henry Darnley 127

Blair, Tony and Cherie, and 2012 Olympics bid 506

Blampied, Edmund, anti-Nazi stamp designs 455

Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, balloon display, Napoleon sabotages 305

Blanchard, Sophie, Napoleon’s Chief Air Minister of Ballooning 323

blasphemy, and Black Death 74

Blenheim, (misnamed) Battle of 196

Blenheim Palace as anti–French symbol 198

Blet, Henri, on French discovery of New World 140, 141

blocus continental , Napoleon’s attempted trade embargo 328

Bloodless Revolution

anti-French nature of 189

Margaret Thatcher and 489

most recent invasion of Britain, 1

Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von

marches on France 334

saves Wellington at Waterloo 341

Bocage, Anne-Marie du, and ‘unrefined’ England 208

Boer War, French attitude to 398

Boleyn, Anne 105, 115

Bonaparte family, origins 303

Bonaparte, Hortense 373

Bonaparte, Joseph, King of Spain 331, 333

Bonaparte, Victor Jérôme 382

Bonaparte, Napoleon see Napoleon; Napoleon III

Bonington, Richard Parkes, painter 362, 367

Bordeaux,

capitulates to French 102

captured by Wellington 334

and phylloxera 386

Borgia, Rodrigo, see Alexander VI

Boston Tea Party 236, 237

Bothwell, James Hepburn Earl of, husband of Mary Queen of Scots 127, 131

Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de

and Falklands 259

and Tahiti 258, 261

circumnavigation 259

gives name to flower 258

Voyage autour du monde 258

Boulogne

Henry VII’s siege of 111

Napoleon’s invasion camp 322

bourgeoisie, profiteers during Revolution 298

Bourgogne, Jean de, French civil war protagonist 78

Bourjois, and Chanel 449

Bouvines, Battle of 49

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) 490

Boyne, Battle of 190

Brabançons, Henry II’s mercenaries 42

Brabant, Antoine of Burgundy, Duke of, late arrival at Agincourt 86

Bridgeford, Andrew, 1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry 28