Стефан Кларк: 1000 Years of Annoying the French

Invalides, Les

Napoleon’s tomb at 349

revolutionary attack on 278

invasion barges, Napoleon and 324

invasions of Britain, failed 1

Iraq war, France and 502

Ireland, Louis XIV’s invasion 190

Irish brigade, Louis XV’s 249

Iroquois people

and Cartier 143

and Illinois 215

Isabelle of Angoulême 47, 48, 51, 55, 56

Isabelle Queen of Richard II 77

Israel, and Suez 470

Italy

Armée des Alpes invasion 310

Napoleon III and 375

Nelson in 315

James I King of England 127, 134

and Duke of Buckingham 151, 163

James II King of England and Duke of Marlborough 192

and Solebay 173

deposed 190

Louis XIV and 189

James III, proposed by Louis XIV as King of England 194

James V King of Scotland 115

James VI King of Scotland see James I

Jefferson, Thomas, and Louisiana Purchase 243

Jermyn, Henry, and Charles II 168

Jerrold, Douglas William, on French 513

Jewish deportees, Channel Islands 453

Jews, blamed for Black Death 74

Joan of Arc 89

canonization 414

French criticism of 89

French desire to condemn for heresy 97

on English 511

posthumous retrial 102

John King of Bohemia, at Crécy 68, 70

John King of England 42, 48

Johnson, Lyndon, and de Gaulle 476

Johnson, Samuel, on French 512

Josephine, see Beauharnais

Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris 89, 99, 101

Joyce, James, in Paris 418

Jumonville, French officer

‘murder’ during Washington’s ambush 230

raid on Fort Necessity 229, 231

Keppel, Alice, great-grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles, Edward VII and 396 n

Kerlerec, Louis Billouart, chevalier de, and New Orleans 233

kidnapping, Norman/Angevin 12, 37

Kieffer, Philippe, French leader at D–Day 457

Kipfels, Austrian croissants 357

Kitchener, Lord

and maisons de tolérance 409

on soldiers’ conduct towards women 407

La Belle , La Salle’s ship 217

La Flamengrie, non-battle of 59

La Roche-aux-Moines, Battle of 49

La Rochelle, siege of 150

La Salle, René-Robert Cavelier de, and Mississippi River 214, 215

shot in Texas 218

Lacoste, Pierre, account of Rainbow Warrior bombing 486

Lafayette, Marie-Joseph du Motier, and American revolution 239, 240

Laliman, Léo, and phylloxera 386

Lally, Thomas Arthur, Comte de, and Pondicherry 249

Lamb War, The Sun and 482

Lamballe, Marie-Louise, princesse de 289

lampreys, surfeit of 36

Lansdowne, Lord, and Entente Cordiale 400

Laquiante, designs guillotine 272

Latour, Charles de, Governor of Acadie 150

Latour, Claude de 151

Lauraguais, Count, on fashionable English 207

Law de Lauriston, Jean, in India 257

Law, John, and Mississippi Bubble 221, 226

Lawrence, Charles, Governor of Nova Scotia 154

deports Acadiens 154

le Maître, Jean, and Joan of Arc 97

Le Fevre, Jean, chronicler 83

League of Nations 413

Leclerc, General Philippe 417

and Paris liberation 460

Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, King of Belgium 372, 377

Lesquer, Jean-Claude, planner of Rainbow Warrior attack 484

Lincoln, Battle of 38

Lincoln, Major General Benjamin, receives British surrender at Yorktown 242

Lindell, Mary, Resistance heroine 444

Livingston, Robert R., and Louisiana Purchase 243

Lloyd George, David, and Treaty of Versailles 413

Loisau, Nathalie, on `Freedom fries’ 503

Lombardi, Vera Bate, Chanel and 449

longbowmen, English 58, 62

at Agincourt 85

at Crécy 65, 67

longbowmen, Welsh 51

Longsword see William Longsword

Longuépée, Florent, objects to Eurostar arriving at Waterloo 499

Louis, Prince Imperial, see Napoleon Eugène

Louis I of England 49

Louis IV King of the Franks 3

Louis VII King of the Franks 39, 40, 41

Louis IX King of France 50

Louis XII King of France, and Henry VIII’s sister 105

Louis XIII King of France

and Acadie 150

and Charles I 163

Louis XIV King of France

and Austria 195

and Canada 153

and Charles II 164, 169, 172, 174

and Champagne 180

and Ireland 190

and ‘James III’ 194

and John Law 221

and Louisiane 228

and William III 188, 194

attempts invasion of England 190

bladder of 186

daily routine of 184

failures 198

Louis XV King of France

and execution of Lally 257

buys Corsica 303

on English 512

Pacific colonies and Bougainville 259, 261

Louis XVI King of France 277

and parliament 280

escape attempt 288

executed 290

Louis XVIII King of France 337

Louis-Philippe, King of France 368, 369

and Napoleon III 374

escapes from France 371

in England 370, 371

Louisiana Purchase 213, 243

Louisiane

Acadians at 160, 233

ceded to Spain 235, 243

French and 213, 223, 226

Napoleon and 213, 243, 322

true vastness of 213, 243

Louison, Antoine, and guillotine 273

Louvre, le

becomes art museum 312 n

Charles II at 164

Lovat, Simon Fraser 11th Lord, on guillotine 271

love-hate relationship xiii

Lowe, Sir Hudson, governor of St Helena 346

Luxembourg, Jean de 96

Maastricht, Marlborough at 193

Mackintosh, Violet, inventor of Quality Street 269

Macmillan, Harold, and de Gaulle 472

mad-cow disease 490

Madagascar, British invasion 436

Madras, Lally and 251, 252, 254

Maginot, André 419

Maginot Line 419

Magna Carta 33, 49

Margaret Thatcher and 489

Mahon, see mayonnaise, Menorca

Maillol, André, sculptor, and Nazis 448

maisons de tolérance

Kitchener and 409

Napoleon and 302, 395, 409

Malleson, G.B., on Lally 249, 250, 256

Malouines, Les see Falklands

Malvinas, Las see Falklands

Mantes, William the Conqueror and 27

Margaret, Saint, ‘visits’ Joan of Arc 91

Marguerite de France 41

Marie d’Avignon, prophecy 92, 94

Marie-Antoinette

escape attempt 288

executed 292

‘Let them eat cake’ 292

Marie-Louise of Austria second wife of Napoleon 331, 336

Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of 192

Marne, Taxis de la 404

‘Marseillaise, La’ 275

Marshall, General George C., and de Gaulle 457

Martinique 220

Mary of Modena, wife of James II 189

Mary I (Tudor) Queen of England 120

and Calais 112

Mary II Queen of England 189

Mary Queen of Holland, Charles II’s sister 171, 187

Mary Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart) 114

and Catherine de’ Medici 117, 118, 121, 129, 130, 132, 134, 135

and Elizabeth I 120, 130, 134

and golf 124, 129

execution 135

gives birth to James 127

husbands 117, 121, 126, 128

speaks and writes French 114, 117, 125, 130, 132

Mathieu, Albert, proposed Channel tunnel 323

Mathilde, Countess of Anjou 36

Mathilde of Boulogne 38

Mathilde of Flanders, William of Normandy and 6

Mauny, Sir Walter, at Calais 72

Mauriac, François, and underground publishing 445

Maurois, André, Les silences du Colonel Bramble 407, 411

on profiteers 407

mayonnaise, invention 232

Mazarin, Jules, Cardinal 164, 168, 170, 171, 179

Medici, Catherine de’

and Mary Queen of Scots 117, 118, 121, 129, 130, 132, 134, 135

and St Bartholomew’s Massacre 145

Menorca, Mahon garrison, French attack 232

mercenaries, Edward III’s 59