Стефан Кларк: 1000 Years of Annoying the French

Brienne, military academy, Napoleon at 304

Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme, French refugee in Connecticut 285

Britain see England

British Aircraft Corporation, and Concorde 474

British Chamber of Commerce, Paris, Edward VII’s speech to 398

British constitutional monarchy

Napoleon admires 305

Voltaire admires 206

British Expeditionary Force WWI 402

British Expeditionary Force WWII, and Dunkirk 422

Brittany, Arthur III, Duke of, survives Agincourt 87

Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre 363

Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights 363

Brossolette, Pierre, Resistance hero 451

brothels

British, during WWI 409

Edward VII and 393

French ban 450

see also maisons de tolérance

Brueys d’Aigalliers, Admiral, and Battle of Aboukir Bay 313

bubble, see Mississippi; see also South Sea

bubble companies, England 224

Bucentaure , French flagship at Trafalgar 326

Bucke, Charles, on Marlborough 192, 194

Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of

and La Rochelle 150, 152

love for James I 151

negotiates marriage of Charles I 163

tries to bed Queen of France 163

Buckingham, George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, Marquess of, employs French émigrés 284

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, author of ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’ 201

Buonaparte see Bonaparte; see also Napoleon

Burghers of Calais 71

Burgundians 78, 79

allied with English 91, 95

and Joan of Arc 96

Charles VII and 95, 101

Burgundy, Philip ‘the Good’ Duke of, French civil war protagonist 91, 101

Burgundy, Philip IV ‘the Handsome’ Duke of, friend of Henry VII 108

Burke, Edmund, Reflections on the Revolution in France 286, 289

Burney, Frances, and émigrés 283

Bush, George W.

and Roquefort cheese 508

on America’s ‘eternal ally’, France 505

Byng, Admiral Sir John, execution of 232

Byron, Noel George Gordon, influenced by French Revolution 360

Cabot, John, aka Giovanni Caboto, ‘discovers’ North America 141

Cadogan, Alexander, on de Gaulle 431

Caen

Edward III and 63

white stone of, favoured by Normans 4, 22

Café Anglais, Edward VII’s exploits in 391

Cahun, Claude, anti–Nazi artist 454

Cajuns 139, 160; see also Acadiens

cake

English, French love of 219 n , 353

‘Let them eat …’ 292

Calais

Edward III and 71, 104, 105

English mis–spelling of 104

English occupation of 104

Mary Queen of Scots at 124

Cambon, Paul, and Entente Cordiale 400

Campbell, John, liberates Wales from French 297

Campbell, Sir Neil, Napoleon’s jailer on Elba 338

Canada 138, 219

Canadians at D–Day 457

see also Acadie, Montreal, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Quebec

Capgrave, John, chronicler 80

Carey, Lieutenant, and Louis (Prince Imperial) 380

Caribbean colonies, French 219

Carmelite monks, massacred during Revolution 289

Carolinas

English and 146

French and 143

Cartier, Jacques, explores St Lawrence 142

Casabianca, Giocante de, ‘burning deck’ victim 314

Casablanca conference, de Gaulle’s tetchiness at 437

Casino Royale , inspired by banning of French brothels 451

castle building, Normans and 22

Catherine of Aragon 109

Catherine, Saint, ‘visits’ Joan of Arc 91

Catherine, wife of Henry V 91

Cauchon, Pierre, Bishop of Beauvais, is determined to convict Joan of Arc 97

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, pro-Nazi author 445

Chabanais, Le, Edward VII’s favourite brothel 393

Chabrol, Claude and New Wave 478

Châlus Castle, and Richard I’s death 46

Chamberlain, Neville, and Munich Conference 420

Champagne

invention of 175

Napoleon’s love of 342

protected by Treaty of Versailles 175

Champagne bottles, English invention 179

Champlain, Samuel de, and Quebec 153

Champollion, Jean-François, deciphers Rosetta Stone 350

Chanel, Coco, fraternizes with Nazis 448

Channel Islands, German occupation 452

Channel tunnel 495

Napoleon’s plans for 323

Channel Tunnel Company 495

Chaplin, Charlie, influence on French cinema 478

Charles I King of England

attacks Ile de Ré and La Rochelle 151

execution 168, 170

Charles II King of England 172

and distrust of French 162

and Marlborough 191, 192

and Secret Treaty of Dover 172

at French court 164

refusal to speak French 167

Charles VI King of France, French leader at Agincourt 77, 80, 91

Charles VII King of France 91

and Armagnacs 91

and Joan of Arc 93, 95, 99, 102

Charles IX King of France, refusal to save Mary Queen of Scots 132

Charles X King of France 368

Chateaubriand, René de, as impoverished émigré 283

Chaucer, Geoffrey, as royal messenger in Calais 105

Chelmsford, Frederic Thesiger, Baron, and Louis (Prince Imperial) 380

Cherokee people, desire for French bribes 234

Chevalier, Maurice, and Nazis 448

chevauchées , Edward III’s murderous ‘horse-rides’ 60, 63

Chickasaw people, attacked by French 227

Chinon Castle

Henry II’s death in 43,

Joan of Arc’s arrival at 92, 93

Chirac, Jacques

and 2012 Olympics bid 506

and Queen Elizabeth 505

Chislehurst, Napoleon III’s life and death at 376

Choltitz, Dietrich von, surrenders Paris 462

Churchill, John see Marlborough

Churchill, Sir Winston, father of Duke of Marlborough 192

Churchill, Sir Winston, Prime Minister, 200

and Casablanca conference 437

and Chanel peace plan 449

and Dakar debacle 433

and de Gaulle 429, 430, 463, 465, 470

and destruction of French navy 432

and Dunkirk 423, 424

and Normandy landings 456

and Paris liberation 460, 462

on Hitler and Rhineland 419

cinema, French 478

CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) 492

Claremont House, Louis-Philippe’s exile at 372

Clarke, Edward, and acquisition of Rosetta Stone 317

Classicism, French 362

Claudel, Paul, on American democracy 514

Clemenceau, Georges

and Treaty of Versailles 413

on English 514

Paris speech 426

clergymen, émigré, occupations during Revolution 284

Clifford, Rosamund, lover of Henry II 41

Clive, Major-General Robert (Clive of India) 250

Clover, Joseph (anaesthetist), and demise of Napoleon III 377

Cnut King of England 10

coal, British, French industry’s sudden lack of 467

Cockleshell Heroes (film) 442

Cocteau, Jean, and Nazi friends 445

code civil, du commerce, pénal , Napoleon’s laws 319

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

and liberty/equality 283

and Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads 361

on French 513

Coligny, Gaspard de, expedition to South Carolina 144

collaboration

collaboration horizontale by French women 450, 454

French 441

in Channel Islands 452, 455

colonies, French attitude to 247

Columbus, Christopher 139

Commerson, Philibert, botanist with Bougainville 260, 261

Common Agricultural Policy, de Gaulle and 472

Common Market, Britain and 472

Communists, French, initially support Hitler 435

Compagnie d’Occident, John Law and 222

Concord see Concorde Concorde 474

Constable, John, painter 362

Convention nationale, and call to overthrow all monarchies 295

Cook, Captain James,

and Canada 158

and Tahiti 258, 264

Cooper, James Fenimore, The Last of the Mohicans 233