France

Martin Evans and Emmanuel Godin ask how close was France to becoming a Communist country in the years after the Second World War.

Glenn Richardson looks at almost nine hundred years of enmity, jealousy and mutual fascination, a hundred years after the Entente Cordiale.

Sami Abouzahr untangles US policy towards France at the time of the Marshall Plan and the war in Indochina.

Richard Wilkinson examines the examiner’s agenda and advises accordingly.

Philip Pedley sees fateful flaws in a famous agreement.

Louis XVI was born on August 23rd, 1754, in the palace of Versailles.

Richard Cavendish describes the French defeat in Indochina, on May 7th, 1954.

Richard Wilkinson exposes prejudice and myth in assessing the career of a key figure in modern French history.

The events leading up to Britain and France's declarations of war on Russia on successive days on 27 and 28 March 1854.

France ceded Naples to Spain on January 31st, 1504.