Стефан Кларк: 1000 Years of Annoying the French

Corbin, André, and Anglo–French union 428

Corneille, Pierre, dramatist 360

Cornwallis, General Charles, and surrender of Yorktown 241

Cornwell, Bernard, on Agincourt 81

Corsica

Garde nationale, Napoleon and 306

patron saint of, 510

seeks to join British Empire 296

Coty, René, President of France, invites de Gaulle to return 471

cow

pivotal role in American Independence 230, 235

see also mad

Coutanche, Alexander, wartime Bailiff of Jersey 453, 455

Crécy, Battle of 53, 64

Crécy, tourists at 64, 65

Cresson, Edith, on ‘gay’ Englishmen 516

Crimean War, Napoleon III and 375

croissant, origin of 356

Crompton, Richmal, on pointlessness of learning French 515

Cromwell, Oliver 170, 172

and Dunkirk 422

Cross of Lorraine 89

crusades, Richard I and 43, 45

Cyprus, French anger at British possession of 392

D-Day 454

2004 commemoration of 505

gaffe at 2009 commemoration of 508

d’Aché, Admiral Anne-Antoine

and Pondicherry 249, 252, 253

fights at Madras 256

d’Arc family 90, 91; see also Joan

d’Azincourt, Ysambart, and massacre at Agincourt 86

d’Erlanger, Leo, head of Channel Tunnel Company 496

d’Estaing, Charles–Henri, confused in Madras 254; see also Giscard

d’Harcourt, Geoffroy, French traitor 63, 66

Dakar, attack by de Gaulle fails 433

Daladier, Edouard, French Premier

and Munich Conference 420

sent to Buchenwald 422

Dalton, Hugh, on de Gaulle 431

Dalton, John, executed by Halifax Gibbet 269

Darnley, Henry, husband of Mary Queen of Scots 126, 131

Daumier, Honoré, cartoonist 369

Dauphin (Charles VII) see Charles VII

David II King of Scotland 55

David, Jacques-Louis, painter 360

de Beauvoir, Simone, and dubious career in WWII 446, 447

de Gaulle, Charles André Joseph Marie 416, 426

and Anglo–French union 427

and aversion to Americans 438, 475

and Casablanca conference 437

and Churchill 429, 435, 457

and D-Day 456

and events of May 1968 476

and Macmillan 472

and mechanized warfare 426

and Paris liberation 460

and Roosevelt 435

and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon 435

Appel du 18 juin 429

assassination attempts on 463, 471

leaves post-war coalition government 465

on French 515

return to power 471

de Gouges, Olympe, French writer 362

de Launay, Bernard-René Jordan, governor of Bastille 279

de Monts, Pierre Dugua, viceroy of Nouvelle-France 147

de Pauger, Adrien, engineer, designer of New Orleans 226

de Tourville, Anne-Hilarion, commander of French fleet 191

de Villiers, Louis, captures George Washington 230

Delacroix, Eugène, painter, and La Mort de Sardanapale 362

Delors, Jacques, becomes Sun headline 487

Derain, André, painter, and Nazis 448

Descartes, Renée, philosopher 360

Voltaire on 206

Deschamps, Emile, translator of Shakespeare 366

Deschamps, Eustache, anti-British poet 104

Devon, Gytha and Edith invade 24

Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities 279

Dien Bien Phu, Ho Chi Minh defeats French 468

‘Dieu et mon droit’ 46, 56

Dincklage, Hans Günther von, Nazi lover of Coco Chanel 449

Dinwiddie, Robert, Governor of Virginia 229

Disraeli, Benjamin, and Louis (Prince Imperial) 379

divorce law, Napoleon’s 320

Dom Pérignon, Pierre, supposed inventor of Champagne 176, 180

Domesday Book 25

Domrémy, birthplace of Joan of Arc 90, 91

Dover, anti-Norman rebellion at 24; see also Secret Treaty

Drake, Elizabeth, mother of Duke of Marlborough 192

Dronne, Raymond, French liberator of Paris 461

Dubois, General, at Pondicherry 256

Ducros, Pierre-Roger, and Napoleon’s coup 318

Dumas, Alexandre, writer

on beefsteak 354

on Louis-Philippe 372n, 373

Dunkirk

1940 evacuations 422

as possible Cold War evacuation site 467

Durham, anti-Norman revolt at 24

Dutch War, Third 173, 188, 193

Dylan, Bob 480

Eadgyth/Mathilde, wife of Henry I 35

East India Company 248

Ecole militaire, Napoleon at 304

Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA) 500

Ecole normale supérieure 319

écorcheurs 78

Eden, Anthony, and Suez 470

Edgar the Aetheling 21, 24

Edith, widow of Harold, invades Devon 24

Editions de Minuit, Les, anti–Nazi publishers 445

Edward I King of England 51

Edward II King of England 33, 51 painful demise of 52

Edward III King of England 55

and Burghers of Calais 71

and Calais 104

and Crécy 64

and ‘honi soit qu mal y pense’ 76

claims French throne 56

invades France 59, 60, 63

Edward VII King of England 389

and Entente Cordiale 400

and erotic furniture 395

assassination attempt on 397

favourite brothel 393

Edward the Black Prince 60, 66, 70, 77

Edward the Confessor, King of England, 9

Egypt

Napoleon’s expedition 312, 315, 350

Suez Canal nationalized 469

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

and Paris liberation 461

and Suez 470

Elba, Napoleon and 337

Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Louis VII of France and Henry II of England 39, 41, 42, 47

Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III 50

Elgozy, Georges, on English 516

Elizabeth I Queen of England 120

and Mary Queen of Scots 125, 130, 131

and North America 146

Eluard, Paul, and underground publishing in wartime France 445

émigrés, French aristocratic 282

Pitt acts to control 296

Empey, Arthur Guy, Over the Top 407

ENA see Ecole nationale d’administration

England

and Champagne 178

and Joan of Arc 97, 99

Anglo-Saxon prosperity 9

as French royal refuge 368

Black Death 74

Channel fortifications 324

French revolutionaries fear invasion by 282

French visitors and 208

Louis (Prince Imperial) in 377

Louis-Philippe in 370, 371

Mary Queen of Scots and 120, 130

monarchy, Voltaire on 206, 280

Napoleon and 321, 336

Napoleon III in 374, 376

private chevauchées 76, 101, 103

pro-French revolution element 283

Voltaire in 204

Witangemot and succession 10

English, Captain Thomas, inventor of boring machine 495

English language 30

favoured by Black Death 74

Entente Cordiale, Edward VII and 399

gaffes surrounding centenary of, 505

Etienne-Henri, cowardly father of King Stephen 37

Eugene Prince of Savoy, Marlborough and 196

Eugénie, Empress of France 376, 379, 382

and Edward VII 390

European currency, Margaret Thatcher and 487

Eustace of Boulogne 24

and Bayeux Tapestry 28

possible contender for English throne 31

ex–pats

American artists, dancers and writers in Paris 418

British in post–Napoleonic France 353

see also émigrés

Fabius, Laurent, confesses to Rainbow Warrior bombing 486

Fairfax, Lord, English relative of Washington 228

Falaise, Normandy 3

Falklands, France and 259

Falklands war, France and 481

Falstof, Sir John, sponsor of private chevauchées 101

Farquhar, George, on Champagne 180

Faulkner, William, on the past xiii, 509

Fersen, Count Hans Axel von

alleged affair with Marie–Antoinette 288

and American Independence 240 n

feudal system, ended by Black Death 74

Field of the Cloth of Gold 108

Fieschi, Giuseppe, assassination attempt on Louis-Philippe 369