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Holland
Charles II and (i), (ii), (iii)
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Hernani (i)
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and maisons de tolérance (i)
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at Agincourt (i)
at Crécy (i), (ii)
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Louis IV King of the Franks (i)
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attempts invasion of England (i)
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Louis XV King of France
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on English (i)
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Louis XVI King of France (i)
and parliament
(i)
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Louisiane
Acadians at (i), (ii)
ceded to Spain (i), (ii)
French and (i), (ii), (iii)
Napoleon and (i), (ii), (iii)
true vastness of (i), (ii)
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Louvre, le
becomes art museum (i)n
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Lovat, Simon Fraser (i)th Lord, on guillotine (ii)
love-hate relationship xiii
Lowe, Sir Hudson, governor of St Helena (i)
Luxembourg, Jean de (i)
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mad-cow disease (i)
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Maginot Line (i)
Magna Carta (i), (ii)
Margaret Thatcher and (i)
Mahon, see mayonnaise, Menorca
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maisons de tolérance
Kitchener and (i)
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Malleson, G.B., on Lally (i), (ii), (iii)
Malouines, Les see Falklands
Malvinas, Las see Falklands
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Marguerite de France (i)
Marie d’Avignon, prophecy (i), (ii)
Marie-Antoinette
escape attempt (i)
executed (i)
‘Let them eat cake’ (i)
Marie-Louise of Austria second wife of Napoleon (i), (ii)
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Medici, Catherine de’
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and St Bartholomew’s Massacre (i)
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metric system, French Revolution and (i)
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persecuted by British (i)
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Mississippi Bubble (i)
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La Salle and (i)
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west side, ceded to Spain (i)
see also Louisiane
Mitterrand, François
and Rainbow Warrior (i), (ii)
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and Quebec (i)
attack on Fort William Henry (i)
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Montpellier University, and phylloxera (i)
Montreal
Cartier and (i)
surrendered (i)
Moore, Marcel, anti-Nazi artist (i)
Môquet, Guy, Resistance hero (i)
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Morris, Desmond, on V-sign (i)
Mortimer, Roger, lover of Queen Isabelle (i)
Moulin, Jean, Resistance hero (i)
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Mururoa, Greenpeace and (i)
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Nanterre university, starting point of May 1968 riots (i)
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Naples, Nelson in (i)
Napoleon Bonaparte
and England (i), (ii)
and Josephine Beauharnais (i), (ii), (iii)
body, real whereabouts of (i)
changes wives (i)
early career (i), (ii)
military career
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Waterloo (i)
Nelson exposes as cuckold (i)
on French (i)
penis, size and final whereabouts of (i)
political career
coup d’état du 18 brumaire (i)
becomes Emperor of France (i)
reforms (i)
and French America (i), (ii), (iii)
abdicates to Elba (i)
returns from Elba (i)
abdicates again (i)
dies at St Helena (i)
Invalides tomb (i)
Napoleon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph, aka Louis (Prince Imperial) aka Napoleon IV (i), (ii)
Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte) (i)
and Edward VII (i)
death in England of (i)
Napoleon IV see Napoleon Eugène
Nasser, Colonel Gamal Abdel, and Suez (i)
Natchez people, settlers and (i)
NATO
de Gaulle and (i)
France and (i)
Nelson, Horatio (i)
and Emma Hamilton (i)
Battle of Aboukir Bay (i)
Battle of Trafalgar (i)
blockades Corsica (i)
on French (i)
new variant, see CJD
New Forest
William of Normandy and (i)
William Rufus and (i)
New Orleans (i), (ii)
/> Kerlerec and (i)
Spanish and (i)
New York, French attacks on (i), (ii)
Newfoundland
Basque fishermen’s secret (i)
Huguenots and (i)
Newton, Isaac, Voltaire on (i)
Ney, Marshal Michel, and Waterloo (i), (ii)
Nimeguen, Marlborough at (i)
Normandy
colonized by Vikings (i)
conquered by England (i)
Edward III’s chevauchée (i), (ii)
1944 landings (i)
Normans
fighting methods (i)
not French (i), (ii)
Nouvelle-France (Canada) (i)
Nouvelle-Orléans see New Orleans
Nova Scotia (Acadie) (i), (ii), (iii)
O’Hara, Brigadier General Charles, and Yorktown surrender (i)
Obama, Barack
considered as Anglo-Saxon (i)n
French and (i)
Odo Bishop of Bayeux (i)
and Bayeux Tapestry (i), (ii)
Ohio River, French forts, Washington and (i)
Olympics 2012, French and English bids (i)
Order of the Garter (i)
Orient, French flagship, explodes (i)
Orléans
Joan of Arc at (i)
Witch of, see Joan of Arc Orléans Philippe d’, regent for Louis XV
and John Law (i)
Voltaire and (i)
Orsini, Felice, tries to kill Napoleon III (i)
Orwell, George, in Paris (i)
Otero, La Belle, cabaret star, Edward VII and (i), (ii)
Pages, Bastian, valet of Mary Queen of Scots (i)
Paine, Thomas, Rights of Man (i)
Paris
American troops in (i)
Bismarck’s siege (i)
Edward VII and (i)
Exposition universelle 1878 (i)
in 1914 (i)
Jockey Club (i)
liberation in 1944 (i)
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occupation in 1814 (i)
student riots in 1968 (i)
Treaty of 1763 (i), (ii), (iii)
Parker-Bowles, Camilla, Edward VII and (i)n
Patton, George S.
and Paris liberation (i)
on French (i)
Payen, Anselme, on bread (i)
Pearl, Cora, English call girl (i)
Peel, Sir Robert, and Louis-Philippe (i)
Pelletier, Nicolas-Jacques, first person guillotined in France (i)
penis, see Napoleon
Pepys, Samuel (i)n
Pereira, Fernando, photographer killed on Rainbow Warrior (i)
Pétain, Marshal (i), (ii)
Philip II King of Spain
and Henri II (i)
proposed invasion (i)
Philipon, Charles, caricaturist (i)
Philippa, wife of Edward III (i), (ii), (iii)
Philippe I King of the Franks (i)
Philippe II Auguste King of France (i), (ii)
wars with (i), (ii)
Philippe VI King of France (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
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Pitt, William, Prime Minister (i), (ii)
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