France

Roger Hudson examines a photograph from 1920 taken on the eve of a profound split on the French Left.

Chris Millington says we shouldn’t be surprised by the Front national’s show of strength in the recent French elections.

Derek Wilson looks at the life of a French princess, who married and helped depose an English king during a tumultuous period of Anglo-French relations that was to end in the Hundred Years War.

Modern dance was born with the premiere of L'apres-midi d'un faune on May 29th, 1912.

Gemma Betros asks what kind of person Napoleon really was.

Christopher Allmand examines Alain Chartier’s Le Livre des Quatre Dames, a poem written in response to the English victory at Agincourt, and asks what it can tell us about the lives of women during this chapter in the Hundred Years War.

The Maid of Orléans was born on January 6th 1412: she has been an incarnation of French national identity and pride for six centuries.

Robert Pearce asks why Louis-Philippe's 'July Monarchy' was overthrown.

Clovis I died in Paris on November 27th 511, aged 46.

Rachel Hammersley discusses how events in the 1640s and 1680s in England established a tradition that inspired French thinkers on the path to revolution a century later.