Napoleon and Empire
Matthew MacLachlan asks how far Napoleon defeated himself.
France
The Duke of Orleans is Ambushed
The Duke of Orleans was assassinated on November 23rd, 1407.
Gustave Pierre Trouvé
Kevin Desmond looks for records of a little-known French inventor who rivalled Thomas Edison.
Knights Templar Arrested in France
Philip IV had every Templar arrested on October 13th, 1307.
‘J’Accuse ...!’: Cartoons of the Dreyfus Affair
Mark Bryant looks at the way caricaturists viewed the scandal engulfing France at the end of the 19th century.
Exiles in Their Own Country
Hanna Diamond examines the mixed experiences of the French men and women of every social class who fled their homes in the mass exodus from the Nazis in 1940, and those who took them in.
The French Renaissance Court
R.J. Knecht looks at the practical considerations behind the smooth operation of the huge courts of the Valois kings of France.
Attempt to Assassinate Louis XV
On January 5th, 1757, Robert-Francois Damiens attempted to assassinate Louis XV.
The Man in the Golden Mask
Richard Wilkinson, Louis XIV’s new biographer, searches for the real Sun King.
Carcassonne falls in the Albigensian Crusade
Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of a great fortress being sacked, on August 15th, 1209.