Стефан Кларк: 1000 Years of Annoying the French

Versailles, Treaty of 413

and Champagne 175, 181

Vian, Boris, on French 516

Victoria Queen of England

and Louis Napoleon 379, 381

and Louis-Philippe 370, 372

death 398

tries to restrain Edward VII 390, 392

visits Napoleon III 376

Victory , HMS 325

Vienna, Congress of 341

Vienne, Jean de, garrison commander of Calais 72

Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh defeats French 468

Vietnam war, de Gaulle on 475

Vikings

and England 2

and North America 140

and Normandy 2

Villeneuve, Admiral Pierre-Charles-Silvestre de 325

Villepin, Dominique de, French Prime Minister, Bonapartist collection of 302

Villiers, Barbara, mistress of Charles II and Duke of Marlborough 192

vines, phylloxera epidemic 383

Virginia

English and 146

George Washington as soldier for 228

Vittoria, Wellington routs French at 333

Vlaminck, Maurice de, painter, and Nazis 448

Voltaire (François–Marie Arouet) 200, 360

Candide 204, 208, 232

Henriade 205

on Canada 157

on England, Lettres philosophiques 204, 205, 280

on French in India 248

Wales, failed French invasion of 297

Wallis, Samuel, explorer, and Tahiti 261, 265

Walpole, Horace, on French 512

Walsingham, Sir Francis, and Mary Queen of Scots 133

Warner, Sylvia Townsend, on de Gaulle 431

Washington, George

as British soldier 228

as American revolutionary soldier 240

on George III’s pro-Native American policy 237

Waterloo, Battle of 341

Waterloo Room, at Windsor Castle 508

Waterloo station 498

Waugh, Evelyn, on English 515

Wavrin, Jehan de, on Agincourt 84

Welles, Orson, influence on French cinema 479

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of vii, 330, 333

and Waterloo 341, 342

at Congress of Vienna 341

British ambassador to France 337

British Embassy portrait xiii

Windsor Castle portrait 508

Wells, H.G., on de Gaulle 431

Welsh longbowmen 51

Wertheimer brothers, and Chanel 449, 450

Wessex, William of Normandy and 21

Whittington, Dick, and Calais 105

Wido, Count of Ponthieu 13

Wilder, Billy, on French 515

William I, see William the Conqueror

William II see William Rufus

William III (of Orange) King of England 187, 194

William Long Sword, Duke of Normandy 3

William of Poitiers, chronicler 10

William Rufus 34

William the Conqueror

and Domesday Book 25

and genocide 25

and Harold Godwinson 13

as bastard 4

birthplace of 3

coronation of 21

deals with unrest 24

death 27

invades England 15

plans for England of 9

‘woos’ wife 6

Wilson, Woodrow, and Treaty of Versailles 413

Winchester, William of Normandy and 21

Windsor Castle, French state visit to 508

wine industry, and phylloxera epidemic 383; see also Champagne

Winslow, John, Colonel, and Acadiens 155

Witangemot and English succession 10

Wolfe, General James, and Quebec 158

Wollstonecraft, Mary 362

A Vindication of the Rights of Men 287

Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal 109

women

WWI soldiers and 407

WWII soldiers and 459

women writers, French establishment and 362

wool trade, in Calais 106, 111

Wordsworth, William 360

Lyrical Ballads 361

Prelude 324

World War I 401

World War II 417

French version of events 417

Yalta Conference 463

Year in the Merde, A 503

York, Danish invasion 24

Yorktown, British surrender of 241

Young, Thomas, and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone 350

Zang, August, Viennese baker in Paris 357

Zulu war, Louis (Prince Imperial) and 379

Zumthor, Paul, on William the Conqueror 5, 6, 23, 24

About the Author

Stephen Clarkelives in Paris, where he divides his time between writing and not writing. His first novel, A Year in the Merde , originally became a word-of-mouth hit in 2004, and is now published all over the world. Since then he has published three more bestselling Merde novels, as well as Talk to the Snail , an indispensable guide to understanding the French.

Research for Stephen’s novels has taken him all over France and America. For 1000 Years of Annoying the French , he has also been breathing the chill air of ruined castles and deserted battlefields, leafing through dusty chronicles, brushing up the medieval French he studied at university and generally losing himself in the mists of history.

He has now returned to present-day Paris, where he is doing his best to live the Entente Cordiale.

For further information on Stephen Clarke and his books, please visit his website: www.stephenclarkewriter.com.

Also by Stephen Clarke

A Year in the Merde

Merde Actually

Merde Happens

Dial M for Merde

Talk to the Snail: Ten Commandments for Understanding the French

For more information on Stephen Clarke and his books, see his

website at www.stephenclarkewriter.com

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