Only the infirmity of purpose displayed by the key-figure at the top, John Wheeler-Bennett writes, prevented the revolt against Hitler, which had failed in Berlin, from being continued successfully from Paris
Christopher Sykes revisits Compiègne during the hunting season, the scene of some of the most splendid and ostentatious diversions of the Second Empire.
His refusal to learn by experience, C.S. Forester suggests, was largely responsible for Napoleon’s ultimate failure
‘If ever a house radiated cheerfulness, that house is Versailles.’ Nancy Mitford on the royal palace in the middle years of Louis XV.
Elizabeth Wiskemann recounts the story of one of Europe’s richest and most hotly-disputed industrial territories
Arthur Bryant looks at how “The Bones of Shire and State” were formed before the Normans came.
The enmity between England and France is an ancient one. But the museum dedicated to a famous English victory offers hope for future relations between the two countries, writes Stephen Cooper.
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.
