Стефан Кларк: 1000 Years of Annoying the French

Mercier, Louis-Sébastien, on English 512

Merret, Christopher, true inventor of Champagne 179, 181

Mers-el-Kebir, French fleet sunk by British 431

metric system, French Revolution and 293

Metternich, Klemens Wenzel, Prince von, at Congress of Vienna 341

Mexico, Gulf of, La Salle and 216

Michael, Saint, ‘visits’ Joan of Arc 91

Micmac people 142

insulted by French 143

persecuted by British 157

Miller, Henry, writer, in Paris 418

Mirabeau, Honoré–Gabriel Riqueti Comte de 282

Mississippi Bubble 221

Mississippi River

La Salle and 214

east side, ceded to Britain 235

west side, ceded to Spain 235

see also Louisiane

Mitterrand, François

and Rainbow Warrior 484, 487

and Margaret Thatcher 481

and Vichy 451

Monckton, Colonel Robert, and Acadiens 156

Monde, Le and Margaret Thatcher 489

Monmouth, Duke of, Marlborough and 193

Monroe, James, and Louisiana Purchase 244

Montbron, Fougeret de, on English 511

Montcalm, Louis-Joseph de

and Quebec 158

attack on Fort William Henry 232

Montgolfière balloon, paper covering 277

Montgomery, Gabriel de Lorges, Count of, kills Henri II 121

Montpellier University, and phylloxera 384

Montreal

Cartier and 143

surrendered 159

Moore, Marcel, anti-Nazi artist 454

Môquet, Guy, Resistance hero 451

Moray, James Stewart Earl of 129, 131

Morocco, Marlborough at 192; see also Casablanca

Morris, Desmond, on V-sign 84

Mortimer, Roger, lover of Queen Isabelle 55

Moulin, Jean, Resistance hero 451

Moulin Rouge, Edward VII and 397

Munich Conference 420

Mururoa, Greenpeace and 483

Muselier, Admiral Emile, liberates Saint-Pierre and Miquelon 435

Nanterre university, starting point of May 1968 riots 476

Nantes, Edict of, revoked by Louis XIV 189

Naples, Nelson in 315

Napoleon Bonaparte

and England 301, 321

and Josephine Beauharnais 310, 316, 331

body, real whereabouts of 348

changes wives 331

early career 298, 303

military career

defence of Tuileries 309

invades Italy 311

expedition to Egypt 312, 315, 350

fails to conquer Russia 332

fails to invade Britain 328

loses against Russians and Prussians 334

Waterloo 341

Nelson exposes as cuckold 316

on French 513

penis, size and final whereabouts of 347

political career

coup d’état du 18 brumaire 318

becomes Emperor of France 320

reforms 319

and French America 213, 242, 320

abdicates to Elba 336

returns from Elba 339

abdicates again 344

dies at St Helena 345

Invalides tomb 348

Napoleon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph, aka Louis (Prince Imperial) aka Napoleon IV 377, 379

Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte) 373

and Edward VII 390

death in England of 377

Napoleon IV see Napoleon Eugène

Nasser, Colonel Gamal Abdel, and Suez 469

Natchez people, settlers and 227

NATO

de Gaulle and 475

France and 467

Nelson, Horatio 245

and Emma Hamilton 315

Battle of Aboukir Bay 313

Battle of Trafalgar 325

blockades Corsica 308

on French 513

new variant, see CJD

New Forest

William of Normandy and 22

William Rufus and 34

New Orleans 226, 228

Kerlerec and 233

Spanish and 243

New York, French attacks on 219, 232

Newfoundland

Basque fishermen’s secret 140

Huguenots and 146

Newton, Isaac, Voltaire on 206

Ney, Marshal Michel, and Waterloo 341, 343

Nimeguen, Marlborough at 193

Normandy

colonized by Vikings 2

conquered by England 35

Edward III’s chevauchée 63, 66

1944 landings 456

Normans

fighting methods 17

not French 2, 19

Nouvelle-France (Canada) 147

Nouvelle-Orléans see New Orleans

Nova Scotia (Acadie) 138, 141, 147

O’Hara, Brigadier General Charles, and Yorktown surrender 241

Obama, Barack

considered as Anglo-Saxon 20 n

French and 508

Odo Bishop of Bayeux 23

and Bayeux Tapestry 28, 29

Ohio River, French forts, Washington and 229

Olympics 2012, French and English bids 506

Order of the Garter 76

Orient , French flagship, explodes 314

Orléans

Joan of Arc at 94

Witch of, see Joan of Arc

Orléans Philippe d’, regent for Louis XV

and John Law 221

Voltaire and 202

Orsini, Felice, tries to kill Napoleon III 375

Orwell, George, in Paris 418

Otero, La Belle, cabaret star, Edward VII and 397, 399

Pages, Bastian, valet of Mary Queen of Scots 127

Paine, Thomas, Rights of Man 286

Paris

American troops in 408

Bismarck’s siege 403

Edward VII and 389

Exposition universelle 1878 392

in 1914 403

Jockey Club 391

liberation in 1944 460

occupation by Nazis 428, 445

occupation in 1814 335

student riots in 1968 476

Treaty of 1763 235, 236, 243

Parker-Bowles, Camilla, Edward VII and 396 n

Patton, George S.

and Paris liberation 460

on French 515

Payen, Anselme, on bread 357

Pearl, Cora, English call girl 391

Peel, Sir Robert, and Louis-Philippe 372

Pelletier, Nicolas-Jacques, first person guillotined in France 273

penis, see Napoleon

Pepys, Samuel 179 n

Pereira, Fernando, photographer killed on Rainbow Warrior 485

Pétain, Marshal 427, 432

Philip II King of Spain

and Henri II 121

proposed invasion 132

Philipon, Charles, caricaturist 369

Philippa, wife of Edward III 59, 62, 73

Philippe I King of the Franks 26

Philippe II Auguste King of France 2, 43

wars with 45, 48

Philippe VI King of France 54, 55, 56, 72

phylloxera epidemic, and French vines 383

Piaf, Édith 480

and Nazis 448

Pitt, William, Prime Minister 280, 321

Pittsburgh 235

Pius X, and Joan of Arc’s canonization 415

Planchon, Jules-Emile, and phylloxera 384, 386

Poitiers, Diane de, lover of Henri II

and death of Henri II 121

and Mary Queen of Scots 118

Pondicherry

corrupt merchants 249, 251, 253, 255

France and 248

Ponthieu

Edward III at 63

Harold accidentally lands in 13

Pope, Alexander, and Voltaire 205

Pope, The

and King John 49

and William I 15

see also Alexander; Pius X

popular culture, French 479

Port Royal, Nova Scotia

French and 147

Scots and 151

pound sterling, devaluation, French industry and 467

Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, on French 513

privateers, English, Coligny and 145

prostitutes, registration 321; see also brothel, Chabanais, collaboration horizontale, maisons de tolérance

Prussians, invade France under Blücher 334

publishing, in occupied France

anti-Nazi 445

Nazi-approved 446

puddings, English, French and 353

Quebec 138

taken by British 158

Quebec Act, and French-Canadians 237

queens, illegality of 34 n

Quiéret, Hue, incompetent French admiral 61

Racine, Jean, dramatist 360

Rainbow Warrior , France and 483

Raleigh, Sir Walter, and North America 146

Ravaillac, François, execution of 269

Regnault de Chartres, Archbishop of Reims 97

Reims, Charles VII crowned at 95

Resistance, see French

Réveillon, Jean-Baptiste, wallpaper factory attacked 277

Revolution, see American, Bloodless, French