France

The French Resistance sought liberation above all else. But what should the postwar nation look like? The question was as old as the Fall of France itself.

What happened to the French airmen in the Second World War who bombed France to help liberate it?

In the 18th century the existence of extraterrestrial life went from debatable hypothesis to fundamental tenet of Enlightenment thought.

In Catherine de’ Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen, Mary Hollingsworth helps the pragmatic queen escape her ‘black legend’.

The unholy alliance between France and the Ottoman Empire in 1530 caused great concern but had little military success.

The Paris Olympics of 1900 celebrated not just sporting excellence, but France’s might.

In Liberty, Equality, Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution, Anne Higonnet brings three dedicated followers of fashion to the fore.

As Revolution broke out and turned to Terror, British citizens living in France found themselves transformed from friends of liberty to an enemy within.

Dogged by rumours of stolen thrones and treachery, the Capetians were nonetheless one of the most successful dynasties of the medieval West.

Was the Earth flatter around the poles or the Equator? In 1735 two expeditions set out to settle a matter of national pride.