Стефан Кларк: 1000 Years of Annoying the French

Flambard, Ranulf, first prisoner to escape from Tower of London 35

Flaubert, Gustave, on English 514

Fleming, Ian, and the banning of French brothels 451

Fleur de Mai , French ship 148

Florida, ceded to Britain 235

Folies Bergère

Edward VII and 391, 397

Josephine Baker and 418

Fontainebleau castle, Charles II at 165

Fontenoy, Battle of 249

proposed new name for Gare du Nord 499

Fontevraud, Royal Abbey of 47

football, Tommies teach French how to play 412

Forces françaises de l’intérieur (FFI) 460

Forneron, Henri, on émigrés 283

Fort Arkansas 227

Fort des Miamis 214

Fort Duquesne 229, 235

Fort Necessity, Washington’s only military defeat 229

Fort Rosalie, massacre at 227

Fort St David, Lally’s seige 251

Fourteenth Light Dragoons, and King Joseph’s chamber pot 333

fox hunting, at Pau 353

France

and American revolution 236, 237

and Falklands 259

and Falklands war 481

attitude to colonies 247

Black Death 73

cuisine 352

discovery of New World 140

Edward VII speaks of friendship 398

in dark ages 2

invades Wales by mistake 297

Mary Queen of Scots and 117, 135, 137

Franco-Norman language 30

Franco-Prussian War, Edward VII and 392

François I King of France

and North America 141

Henry VIII and 108

François II King of France, husband of Mary Queen of Scots 116

Francophobia, American 502

Franklin, Benjamin, success in Paris 237

Frankton, Operation 442

Fraser, Antonia, on Mary Queen of Scots 125

Free French

and security breaches 433, 440

commandos 457

de Gaulle and 433

Freedom, fries, pancakes, toast, etc 503

French, Field Marshal Sir John 402

French language

Jacques Toubon defends 500

spoken by WWI soldiers 410

French Resistance

heroes of 451

smuggle out fallen airmen 441

SOE and 440

French Revolution 275

British blamed for 276

British Romantics and 360

Napoleon and 306

Quiberon debacle 297

refugees in England 282

subsides 298

French-Canadians, Quebec Act, and 237; see also Acadien

Froissart, Jean, chronicler

on Crécy 68

on Geoffroy d’Harcourt 63

Fulton, Robert, offers submarine to French 323

Gagnière, Claude, on English 516

Gambetta, Léon, French Republican, meets Edward VII 392, 395

Gauguin, Paul, disappointed by Tahiti 266

Gautier, Théophile, poet 365

Gavarni, Paul, on English 514

genocide

Hundred Years War as 54

William of Normandy and 25

Genoese

crossbowmen, at Crécy 66, 67

war galleys, Philippe VI’s 61

Geoffrey, son of Henry II 42

Geoffrey of Anjou, son–in–law of Henry I 36, 37

George III King of England

and America 236, 242

as model monarch 280

Napoleon and 321

Gide, André, on French 514

Gifford, Gilbert, and Mary Queen of Scots 132

Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry

obtains d’Estaing title 254n

on Margaret Thatcher 481

Glasgow, and stuffed croissants 358

globalization, by French industry 504

Glorious Revolution, see Bloodless

Godard, Jean-Luc 478

Godwin Earl of Wessex 11

golf

at Pau 353

played by Mary Queen of Scots 124, 129

Goulue, La, cabaret dancer, Edward VII and 397

Graham, Harry, on French 515

Grande Peur 282, 286

Graves, Robert

on soldiers and women 408

on war profiteers 406

Greenpeace, France and 483

Grenadier Guards, at Bastille Day parade 506

Greville, Charles, lover of Lady Hamilton 315

Greville, Daisy, Edward VII and 396

Grosley, Pierre–Jean, on London 209

Grunfield, Marianne, Jewish deportee from Guernsey 453

Guadeloupe 220

Guercheville, Antoinette, marquise de, and North America 148

Guggenheim, Peggy 418

Guillaume le Conquérant see William the Conquerer

Guillotin, Joseph-Ignace, and humanitarian executions 267, 271, 273

guillotine

French revolutionary career of 271

Halifax Gibbet 267

introduction into France of 267 et seq

Guise family

and Mary Queen of Scots 123, 125

and St Bartholomew’s massacre 145

Guise, Marie de, mother of Mary Queen of Scots 115, 122

Gytha, mother of Harold, invades Devon 24

Haiti (Saint-Domingue) 220

Acadiens at 160

Halidon Hill, Battle of 55

Halifax Gibbet, original guillotine 269

Halifax, Nova Scotia 154

Halley’s Comet, in Bayeux Tapestry 15

Halliday, F.E., Concise History of England 301

Hallyday, Johnny 479

Hamilton, Emma, Nelson and 315

Hamilton, Sir William 315

Harald Hardrada 16

Harald the Viking 3

Hardy, Captain Sir Thomas, and Nelson 327

Harfleur, Henry V at 79

Harold Godwinson 11

at Battle of Hastings 17

at Stamford Bridge 16

Bayeux Tapestry depiction 28

becomes King of England 14

hostage in Normandy 12

Harrison, Colonel Richard, and Louis (Prince Imperial) 380

Harrison, William, on Halifax Gibbet 270

Hasler, Herbie, and Operation Frankton 442

Hastings, Battle of 16

Hawke, Admiral Sir Edward 233

Hemans, Felicia, ‘burning deck’ poetess 314

Hemingway, Ernest, in Paris 418

Hendrix, Jimi, in Paris 480

Henri II King of France

and Calais 112, 119

and Mary Queen of Scots 116

Henri III King of France, and Mary Queen of Scots 134, 135

Henri IV King of France

and Canada 146

murder of 269

Henriette Marie, mother of Charles II 163

Henry ‘The Young King’ 41

Henry I (Beauclerc) King of England 4, 34

and lampreys 36

Henry II (Plantagenet) King of England 38, 47

and Eleanor of Aquitaine 39, 41

and Thomas Becket 40

Henry III King of England 33, 50

Henry V King of England 78, 90

at Agincourt 81

forbids chevauchées 80

in Shakespeare’s play 82n, 83

Henry VI King of England 91

Henry VII King of England

and Calais 105, 108, 111

and North America 140

Henry VIII King of England

and Calais 105, 111

and François I 108

and Marie de Guise 115, 116

and Mary Queen of Scots 116

Herleva, mother of William I 4

Hernu, Charles, and Rainbow Warrior 484

Highlanders, first WWI troops to disembark 401

Hitchcock, Alfred, influence on French cinema 478

Hitler, Adolf 1

Chamberlain and 420, 421

French attitude to 419

invades Poland 421

Ho Chi Minh, defeats French 468

Holland

Charles II and 171, 172, 173

French invasion 173, 188, 193

Holyroodhouse, Mary Queen of Scots at 124

Hone, William, on Halifax Gibbet 270

‘Honi soit qui mal y pense’ 76

Hope and Company, and Louisiana Purchase 246

horse-racing, at Champs de Mars 353

Hugo, Victor

Hernani 365

on being human 513

on Louis-Philippe 369, 370, 372

on Shakespeare 364

on Waterloo 343

Huguenots

and Newfoundland 146

and South Carolina 143

St Bartholomew’s Massacre 145

Hundred Years War 34, 53, 76, 89, 101, 103, 111, 305

Husson, Armand, on croissants 358

Icelandic Sagas, on North America 140

‘Ich dien’ 70

Illinois, La Salle and 215

Impressionist painters, French 367

India, France and 248

Indochina, Ho Chi Minh defeats French 468

industrial revolution, France 375

informers, during Occupation 441

Instructions for British Servicemen in France 459

intellectuals, during WWII 445