Revolutionary Calendar 294
Rhineland, Hitler and 419
Ribault, Jean, and South Carolina 144
Riccio, David, secretary of Mary Queen of Scots 126
Richard, Duke of Normandy 3, 5
Richard I (Lionheart) King of England 33, 42
death of 46
Richard II King of England 77
Richard, Marthe, and banning of French brothels 451
Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duc, and Acadie 150
Riley, Charles Valentine, and phylloxera 386
Rimbaud, Arthur, poet 367
Rivarol, Antoine de, on English 512
Robert Curthose, and Henry I 35
Robert d’Artois, and Edward III 56
Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln 50
Robert the Bruce 51
Robert the Magnificent, Duke of Normandy 4
Robespierre, Maximilien, blames revolution on British 276
Robin Hood 33, 44
Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de, and American revolution 240
Rochemore, Vincent de, in New Orleans 234
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, satirist 172
Rocquencourt, Battle of, and NATO 467
Roderigue Hortalez et Compagnie 238
Rodin, Auguste, sculptor, and ‘Burghers of Calais’ 72, 73
Rohan, Guy-Auguste de, Voltaire and 202
Roi Soleil, see Louis XIV
Rol-Tanguy, Henri, and Paris liberation 460, 462
Romantics, French 364
Rome, Treaty of, Britain and 472
Romney, William the Conqueror’s massacre at 21
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
and de Gaulle 430, 465
and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon 436
Churchill and 431
recognizes Vichy government 434
Rosetta Stone 317, 350
Rouget de Lisle, Claude–Joseph, composer of ‘La Marseillaise’ 275
Rough Wooing, of Mary Queen of Scots by Henry VIII 116
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
idea of Noble Savage 263
on eating brioche 292
routiers 77
Rudio, Carlo di, and Napoleon III 376 n
Rupert of the Rhine, Prince 173
Russia, Napoleon fails to conquer 332
Russian slave labourers, in Channel Islands 455
Ryswick, Treaty of 191
Safire, William, on French 516
Saint-Evremond, Charles de, popularizes Champagne 179
Saint-Lazare convent, revolutionary attack on 278
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon 160
Muselier and 435
Saint-Pierre, Eustache de, Burgher of Calais 72
Saint-Sauveur, Maine, French and 149
Salisbury, Countess of, loses her garter 76
Sand, George (Aurore Dupin), writer 363
Sanders, Paul, on Channel Islands occupation 452
Sandwich, Edward Montagu Earl of, at Battle of Solebay 173
Sarkozy, Nicolas, French President, visit to London 507
Sartre, Jean–Paul, and dubious career in WWII 446, 448
Schellenberg, Walter, Chanel and 449
Schmidt, Tobias, builds prototype guillotine 272
Schneider, Hortense, Edward VII and 397
Schooneveld, Battles of 173
Scotland
Edward II and 51
Edward III and 55
Mary Queen of Scots and 114, 119, 124, 137
Secret Treaty of Dover 172
Sedan, Battle of 376
Seven Years War 157, 231, 235
sexually transmitted diseases, Tahitians infected by 264
Shakespeare, William
French and 363, 366
Henry V 82, 83
Henry VIII 109
on French 511
Weird Sisters-like rhyme at Calais 104
Shelley, Mary 360
Frankenstein 362
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, poet 360
Sherwill, Sir Ambrose James, in occupied Channel Islands 453
Sidney, Sir Philip, on France 511
Sieyès, Emmanuel-Joseph, and Napoleon’s coup 318
Sigtrygg the King of the Sea 3
Sipido, Jean-Baptiste, tries to shoot Edward VII 397
slave trade 220
Sluys, Battle of 61, 67
smugglers, and Napoleon’s trade embargo 328
Soissons, Joan of Arc captured at 96
Solebay, Battle of 173
Sorbonne, La, and 1968 student riots 477
Soupire, chevalier de, and Pondicherry 253
South Sea Bubble 224
Southport, Napoleon III at 374
Spain
and New World 139
and South Carolina 144
Armada, invasion failed 1
Wellington and 331, 333
Special Operations Executive, and French Resistance 440
Spitz, Auguste, Jewish deportee from Guernsey 453
St Helena, Napoleon at 345
St Lawrence River, Cartier and 142
St Pancras, railway station and Corsican saint 510
Stafford, anti-Norman revolt 25
Stalin, Joseph, on de Gaulle 465
Stamford Bridge, Battle of 16
staplers, Calais merchants 107
steak-frites , British origin of 353
Steiner, Therese, Jewish deportee from Guernsey 453
Stendhal, Marie-Henri Beyle, on French 513
Stephen, Count of Blois and Boulogne 37
Sterne, Laurence, on French 512
Stuart, Henrietta Anne, sister of Charles II, and Secret Treaty of Dover 172
Stuart, James aka ‘James III’ 194
Stuart, Mary see Mary Queen of Scots
submarines, Napoleon and 323
Suez Canal
Napoleon III and 375
nationalized 469
sugar trade, French and 219
Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of, financial minister of Henri IV 146
Sully, Duke of, friend of Voltaire 202
Sun, The
Lamb War 482
on death of Louis-Philippe 373
‘Up Yours Delors’ 487, 490
Swift, Jonathan, and Voltaire 205
Tahiti, France and 258, 261
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles-Maurice de
and Louisiana Purchase 244
and Napoleon’s return 340
on Napoleon 334, 335
Tanacharison, George Washington’s guide 230
Tanjur, Rajah of, Lally and 253
Tate, William, and failed French invasion of Bristol 297
Taxis de la Marne 404
Terror, The 273, 289
Texas, La Salle’s expedition in 218
Thatcher, Margaret
and Channel Tunnel 496
and France 481, 487, 489
Thompson, Henry, surgeon, and death of Napoleon III 377
Thunderball , and Mary Queen of Scots 118
Times, The
on death of Louis–Philippe 373
on The Terror 289, 297
Tonti, Henri de, in America with La Salle 214
Toubon, Jacques, French Minister of Culture, defends French language 500
Toulon, Napoleon and 296, 306
Toulouse
and Concorde 474
attacked by Henry II 41
captured by Wellington 334
Tournai, Henry VIII’s raid on 111
Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne, on bread 355
Tower of London, William of Normandy and 22; see also Flambard
Trafalgar, Battle of 245, 325
Traitorous Correspondence Act, for French émigrés 296
trench warfare 405
Trevelyan, G.M., Shortened History of England 38
Trevisa, John, on English language 75
Tristan, Flora, on English 514
Truffaut, François 478
Tuileries
British soldiers cook steak in 354
Napoleon moves into 319
Napoleon’s defence of 309
Turenne, Vicomte de, and Marlborough 193, 194
Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, and arms sales to America 239
Turkey, war against France 316
Turner, J.M.W., painter
and nature 362, 367
influenced by French Revolution 360
Turpyn, Richard, chronicler
on Calais 108, 109
on Henry VII’s raids 111
Twain, Mark, on French 514
Utrecht, Treaty of 197
and coastal Canada 153
V-sign, origin of 84
vache see mad
Vaillard, Pierre-Jean, on English 516
Valence, Napoleon at 305
Valois, Charles de, and Genoese crossbowmen 68
Vansittart, Sir Robert, and Anglo–French union 428
venereal disease, Tahitians infected by 264
Vergennes, Charles Gravier de, and arms sales to Americans 237
Vergniaud, Pierre-Victurnien, on The Terror 308
Verlaine, Paul, poet 367
Verrazzano, Giovanni da, and North America 141
Versailles, Louis XIV and 184
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