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abortion 328, 339, 415

Absolutism 73, 99, 101–3

academies, provincial 91

Acheson, Dean 345

Action française 266, 272, 291

Additional Act 160

administrative systems 39–42, 45, 48–53, 54, 55–7, 58, 61, 64, 67, 73–4, 79, 81, 84, 88, 101, 122, 124, 149, 151–2, 153, 157, 159, 161, 182, 188, 249, 267, 287, 309, 311, 452

Adenauer, Konrad 369

advertising 176, 324

Afghanistan 419, 459

Africa 398

Agincourt, battle of 51

ageing 23

ageing population 395, 400, 401

age of consent 415

agrarian law 144

agriculture 8–10, 15–16, 21, 27, 27–8, 77, 84, 85, 162, 166, 168, 169–72, 174, 182, 249, 255, 256, 265, 266, 268, 276, 293, 294, 317, 320, 323, 336–7, 350, 392

agronomy 27

Aide-toi le ciel t’aidera 189

AIDS 400

Aiguillon, Duc d’ 122

Aimoin, monk 30

Airbus 379, 385, 458

aircraft industry 252, 285, 324, 385, 386, 430, 458

air force 285, 389

Aix-en-Provence 111

Albert 199

Alcatel 390

alcoholism 408

Alembert, Jean d’ 89

Alès, Peace of 71

Algeria 266, 322, 343, 352–9, 361, 363, 365–6, 404

Algérie française 363, 427

Allain-Targé 216

Allarde, loi d’ 124

Allègre, Claude 445

Alsace 2, 113, 120, 244, 252, 288

Alstom 390, 455

Amazon-France 392

America, United States of 109, 252, 257, 262, 265, 282, 306, 320, 324, 331, 339, 346, 350, 357, 360, 366, 368, 390, 391, 393, 411, 445, 456–9, 461, 464

   Declaration of Independence 124

   War of Independence 93, 94

Ami du peuple, L’ 132

Amiens, Treaty of 152

amnesty 151, 152

anarchism 230, 374

ancien régime 45, 77, 78, 101, 144

Angers 313

Angoulême 396

Anjou 35, 51, 144

Annales 2

Anne de Beaujeu 56

Anne de Bretagne 56

Angevin Empire 43

Anti-Bolshevik Legion 296

anti-clericalism 128, 138, 140, 225, 228, 259

anti-militarism 238

anti-parliamentarianism 270, 272

anti-Semitism 23, 38, 45, 232, 234, 272, 280, 291, 293, 300–1, 313, 352, 416, 427

Aquitaine 31, 42, 51

Arab–Israeli war 379

architecture 54, 70

Ardèche 143

Ariane space programme 324

aristocratic ‘revolt’ 106

Arras 19, 111

armées révolutionnaires 138, 141, 143

armée secrète 308

armaments industry 276, 278, 293, 324, 385, 458

Armistice (1918) 252

Armistice (1940) 286–8, 300

army 38, 42, 48, 49, 54, 57, 58, 61, 64, 65, 69–70, 74, 75, 79, 81, 83, 87, 93, 106, 108, 113, 118–20, 122, 130, 134, 137, 138, 139, 143, 145, 147, 148, 149–50, 151, 152, 153, 154, 156, 157, 159, 160, 182, 183, 184, 185, 187, 188, 190, 192, 198, 200, 202, 207, 216, 217, 219, 220, 221, 223, 225, 232, 234, 236, 243–6, 247, 281, 286, 287, 290, 299, 304, 307, 312, 313, 350–2, 356–9, 365–6

Aron, Raymond 421

arson 107

art 54, 70, 155

Articles de Paris 176

artillery 38, 54

artisans 59, 81, 107, 132, 140, 141, 144, 179, 193, 195, 255, 336

Artois 45, 112

Artois, Duc d’ (see also Charles X)130, 185

Assembly of Notables 100, 105, 110

assignats 126, 137, 149

assimilation 382, 406–7

assistance, public 148

atrocities 243, 352

Aubervilliers 406

Aubry, Martine 445, 450, 451

Auriol, Vincent 307

Auroux, Jean 387

Austerlitz, battle of 208

Austria 134, 137, 279

Austrian Netherlands 138

automobile industry 173, 255, 256, 317, 324, 325, 331, 337, 392

Aventis 391

Avignon 47

AXA 389


Babeuf, Gracchus 147

Bailly, Jean 122, 131

bakers 107

Balladur, Edouard 436, 438, 453

banalities 122

Bank of France 152, 269, 276, 278, 397

banking 113, 124, 176, 229, 324, 431

bankruptcies 264

Banquet campaign (1847) 197

Barbès, Armand 200

Barnave, Antoine 133

Barnier, Michel 457

Baroche, Pierre-Jules 210, 212

Barras, Paul 149

Barre, Raymond 385, 415, 427, 428, 432

Barrès, Maurice 232

barricades 61, 65, 190, 198, 202, 308, 374

Barrot, Odilon 197, 198

Bar-sur-Aube 19

Barthes, Roland 413

Barthou, Louis 230

Bastille 100, 119, 141, 274

Bastille Opera 413

Bastille, Place de la 423

Baudrillard, Jean 413

Bayonne 19, 51

Bayrou, François 449

Beaumont, Christophe de 88

Bédarida, François 437

begging 107

Belgium 138, 244, 283

Benoist-Mechin, Jacques 296

Bérégovoy, Pierre 397, 425, 435, 436

Bernadotte, Marshal 150, 157

Bernard 326

Berri, Duc de 187

Besancenot, Olivier 446

beur 406

Bevin, Ernest 346

Bible 57, 59

Bichelonne, Jean 298

Bidault, Georges 346

biens nationaux 126, 128–9, 135, 152, 159, 162, 184, 188

Billaud, Jean 146

bipolarisation 364–5

birth control 26, 177, 328, 339, 410, 415

birth rate 20, 21, 177–8, 327–8, 339, 401

bishops 92, 130

Bismarck, Otto von 219

Black Death 34

black market 140, 305, 329

Blair, Tony 456, 458

Blanc, Louis 199

Blanqui, Louis-Auguste 200

bloc des gauches 230

Bloc national 259

Bloch, Marc 2, 3, 37, 292

blockade 157, 160, 166

Blois 35, 61

Blum, Léon 260, 265, 277, 278, 280, 281, 345

Bodin, Jean 61

Bokassa, Emperor 417

Bolshevism 260, 280, 291, 294

Bonaparte, Louis-Napoléon (Napoleon III) 204, 206–19, 363, 434

Bonaparte, Napoleon 130, 150–60, 184, 188, 212, 458

   abdication of 159, 160

Bonapartism 160, 165, 187, 188, 197, 204, 210, 219, 221, 226, 273, 349, 361, 413, 428

Boniface VIII, Pope 47

Bordeaux 10, 18, 19, 26, 51, 77, 144, 222, 286

Borne, D., 326

Bossuet, Bishop 70

Boulainvilliers, Comte Henri de 79

Boulanger, General 231

Boulogne 45

Bourbon family 59, 165, 183, 188

Bousquet, René 298, 417

Bourgeois, Léon 231

bourgeoisie 78, 81–2, 83, 97, 99–100, 109, 115, 116, 136, 153, 180, 182

Bourgès-Manoury, Maurice 357

Bourmont, Marshal 189

Bové, José 393

Bouvines, Battle of 43

Brassillach, Robert 294

Braudel, Fernand 2, 5

Brétigny, Treaty of 51

Briand, Aristide 259

brigands 149

Brissot, Jacques-Pierre 111, 132, 134

Britain 29, 77, 80, 87, 94, 97, 109, 132, 138, 145, 152, 155, 157, 162, 167, 169, 193, 196, 212, 227, 236, 253, 256, 257, 260, 262, 264, 265, 281, 282, 285, 287, 289, 298, 306, 356, 360, 361, 369, 379, 383, 389, 396, 400, 406, 426, 456, 459

Brittany 45, 48, 67, 112, 117, 144, 145, 286, 308

Broglie, Duc V-F. de 122

Broglie, Duc A-L-V. de 190

Broglie, Duc Albert de 225, 227

Brumaire, 18th 150

Brunswick, Duke of 134, 138

Brussels 142

Bugeaud, Marshal 198

building types 8, 20

Bull computers 386, 389, 455

bureaucracy 106, 145, 149, 162, 180, 183, 184, 193, 269, 270, 290, 292, 296–7, 300, 301, 304, 311, 360, 403, 452

Burgundy 31, 48, 56, 59

Burgundy, dukes of 31, 53, 56

Burke, Edmund 100

buses 179

Bush, President George W. 457

businessmen 113, 173, 180, 184, 185, 193, 198, 227, 230, 234, 249, 255, 267, 292, 294, 311, 332, 353

Caen 144, 337

cafés 91, 189, 391, 412

Cagoule 280

cahiers de doléances 56, 108, 109, 114–16, 115, 121

Caillaux, Joseph 232, 237, 247

Calais 58

calendar, revolutionary 140

Calonne, Charles-Alexandre de 93, 103, 104–5

Calvin, John 59, 60

Cambon, Joseph 146

Canal Plus 412

Capetians 35, 50

capital 169, 173

capitalism 12, 28, 97, 100, 108, 205

Carignan, Alain 396

Canard enchaÎné, Le 417

carnival 66

Carnot, Hippolyte 211

Carnot, Lazare 149

Carnot, Sadi 230

Carolingian Empire 30, 34

Carrefour 325, 389

Cartel des gauches 259, 264

castles 32, 35, 38, 40, 49, 58, 75

Castorama 391

catalogues, mail-order 177

Cathars 44

cathedrals 45

Catherine de France, wife of Henry V of England 51

Catholics 152, 234, 236, 251, 280, 300, 307, 312, 333, 357, 421, 427

Cavaignac, General 203, 204, 211

celibacy 20, 46

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand 294

censorship 91, 153, 187, 190, 243, 356

centralisation 54

Chaban-Delmas, Jacques 312, 351, 353, 358, 378, 414

Chamber of Deputies 159, 226

Chamberlain, Neville 281

Chambord, château de 57

Chambord, Henri-Dieudonné de Bourbon, Comte de 191, 214, 225

Chambre des comptes 40

Chambre introuvable 185

Champagne 45, 48, 59

Champagne, Counts of 31

Chanteloup-les-Vignes 408

Chaptal, Jean 154

charity 80, 85, 126, 181

charivari 66

Charlemagne, Emperor 30, 34, 57

Charles V 49, 51

Charles V, Habsburg emperor 58

Charles VI 49, 51

Charles VII 53, 54

Charles VIII 56

Charles IX 61

Charles X 187–92

Charles the Bold 31

Charter, Constitutional 159–60, 165, 183–4, 190, 192, 193

charters 30

Chartres 45

Châteaubriand, François-René, Vicomte de 188

Chautemps, Camille 279

chemicals industry 173, 179, 249, 255, 386

Chemin des Dames, battle of 246

Chemises vertes 271

Chevaliers de la Foi 157, 185

Chevènement, Jean-Pierre 425, 445, 446

childcare 328, 401

China 464

Chirac, Jacques 378, 385, 387, 389, 393, 398, 399–400, 403, 406, 414–16, 420–1, 427, 428, 429–33, 436, 438–60, 462, 464

chivalry 32, 40

chouannerie 145

chroniclers 30

Church, Roman Catholic 13, 19, 32, 33, 34, 39, 43, 44, 45, 46, 54, 58–64, 71, 81, 83, 84, 85, 88, 91, 94, 113, 114, 115, 126, 128, 140, 151, 161, 162, 180, 181, 184, 188, 206, 212, 214, 225, 228, 230, 232, 234, 242, 259, 293, 299, 339, 344, 409–10, 426, 436

   disestablishment of 234

churches, parish 45, 58, 79, 143, 210

Churchill, Winston 287, 306

cinema 243, 250, 267, 292, 303, 411–12

citizenship 90

Citroën 325

Civil Constitution of the Clergy 143

Clair, René 267

class 82, 142, 195

Clemenceau, Georges 232, 235, 247, 252, 259

clericalism 213, 217, 218, 230, 234, 238

clergy 13, 60, 70, 91–2, 101, 111, 113, 114, 117, 118, 122, 126, 126–8, 130, 133, 135, 140, 143, 149, 152, 185, 188, 201, 206, 242, 250, 293, 339, 410

Clermont-Ferrand 390

clientage 32, 49, 57, 59, 64, 65, 70, 74

climate 6–7, 18, 21, 24, 26, 77, 107

clothing trades 251

Clovis 37

clubs, political 111, 112, 131, 132, 134, 138, 141, 147, 189, 193, 199, 200

coal industry 79, 85, 318, 337, 384, 386, 388, 407

Cobban, Alfred 100

Coblenz 142

cohabitation 328, 389, 401, 422, 429–38, 443, 444, 449

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste 70, 75

Cold War 338, 343, 344–57, 368, 458

collaboration 296–9, 302–3, 304, 310, 311, 318

collective practices 129

Colmar 113

colonies 26, 75, 77, 87, 152, 236

Combat 303, 307

Combes, Emile 232

Comité Français de la Libération Nationale (CFLN) 307, 312

commercialisation 166, 171

commercial travellers 176

commercial treaty (1860) 212, 213

Committee of General Security 138

Committee of Public Safety 138, 145, 146, 147, 202, 358

committees, revolutionary 138

Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 323, 370, 392, 455

common land 85, 116, 129

communications 6–12, 14, 16, 23, 25, 26–7, 30, 37, 41, 47, 69, 73, 77, 108, 132, 151, 162, 168–74, 176, 178, 179, 210, 229

Communist International 260

Communist Party (PCF) 261–2, 273–9, 282, 303, 305, 307, 308, 309, 310, 312, 313, 319, 341, 342, 343, 344–8, 353, 356, 357, 359, 362, 366, 370–1, 375, 377, 398, 417–22, 423, 424, 426, 429, 433, 442, 444, 446, 450, 463

Commune, Paris (1871) 221–4, 226, 235

communes 39–42, 68, 84, 138, 139, 140

community 67, 74, 116, 120, 128, 129, 142

commuting 394

Compiègne 34

Comte de Provence (see Louis XVIII)

conception, pre-marital 20

Concorde, La 408

Concordat 60, 152, 228, 234

Concorde 379

Condé family 65

Condorcet, J-A-N., Marquis de 111

Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) 238, 262, 348

CGT unitaire 262

Confédération paysanne 393

Conforma 391

conscription 137, 143, 144, 156, 157, 184, 210, 221, 237, 239, 249, 458

Conseil constitutionnel 398, 436

Conseils généraux 424

Conseil d’Etat 153, 395

Conseil national de la Résistance (CNR) 307, 310, 319, 328

constitutional Church 140

conservatives 131, 199, 201, 204, 205, 218, 221, 224, 225, 232, 234, 258, 259, 260, 269, 273, 279, 280, 281–2, 291, 296, 304, 310, 342, 343, 350, 353, 354, 362, 374, 375, 415, 423, 427, 432, 442, 461

Constituent Assembly (1848) 202, 203, 204

Constituent Assembly (1945–6) 340–2

constitutions 118, 125, 129, 136, 147–8, 150, 204, 206, 226, 361–3

Consulate 150–3

consumers 77, 79, 264, 320

consumer society 317, 325–6, 328, 330–1

Conti family 65

Continental System 155

Convention 123, 135–48

co-operatives 195, 200, 202, 205

Cordelier club 132

coronation 37, 67

corporations, municipal 115, 116

Corps législatif 150, 158, 208, 212, 217, 220

Corrèze 378, 393, 451

corruption 197, 396–400, 425, 434, 435, 449, 462

Corsica 359, 445

Corvée 105

costume 79, 256

Cot, Pierre 274

Coty, François 271

Coty, René 354, 357, 359

Couches nouvelles 226

Council of the Ancients 147

Council of the Five Hundred 147

Council, Royal 39, 43, 59, 65, 72

Counter-Reformation 69, 71

Counter-revolution 99, 129, 130, 131, 133, 134, 138, 139, 140, 142–52, 157, 159, 189

coup d’état (18 fructidor) 149

coup d’état (1851) 206–8

   resistance to 206–7, 208

Cour des comptes 395, 425

court, royal 39, 46, 57, 58, 69, 70, 89, 93, 103, 104, 109, 115, 130, 187, 290

courts, ecclesiastical 41

courts, seigneurial 41

Cousin-Montauban, General 219

Coyer, Abbé 90

Crécy, Battle of 49, 51

credit 330

Crédit agricole 337, 392, 402

Crédit lyonnais 397

Creil 406

Cresson, Edith 434

Creusot-Loire 388

crises, economic 12, 21–7, 69, 112, 121, 166, 178, 189, 194, 197, 229

crises, subsistence 25, 27, 77, 106–7, 171, 172

crime 41, 82, 85, 107, 408, 428, 432, 438, 444

Croix, La 234

Croix de feu 270, 280, 417

Croquant revolt 67

Crusades 32, 38, 42, 59

cult of Reason 140

culture, political 90–1, 98, 99, 106, 130, 132, 161, 163, 165, 196, 198, 224, 240, 363

culture, popular 57, 70, 79, 84, 91, 188, 205, 243, 250, 256, 339, 411–14

currency 254, 257, 262, 264, 265–6, 274, 278

customary rights 116

customs, internal 104, 115, 119, 161

cycles, economic 15, 26

Czechoslovakia 260, 281, 346, 369, 419


Dakar 298

Daladier, Edouard 269, 273, 274, 279, 281–3, 348

Danone 390

Danton, Georges 133, 136, 145, 146

Darlan, Admiral 298, 299

Darnand, Joseph 296, 302

Darty 326

Dassault 335, 386, 414

Daumier, Honoré 195

Dauphiné 45, 67, 111, 120

David, Jacques-Louis 90

Déat, Marcel 294, 296

death penalty 424

Debré, Michel 313, 358, 361, 363, 364

debt, government 21, 27, 75, 87, 93, 94, 104, 106, 257, 269, 279

Decazes, Elie, Duc 187

Decazes, Louis, Duc 227

decentralisation 118, 124, 138, 224, 228, 230, 376, 396, 416, 424–5

dechristianisation 140–1

Declaration of the Rights of Man 124, 126, 165, 242

Decourtray, Mgr 390

decrees, emergency 273

defeat (1940) 283–7, 289

defence policy 384, 422, 458–9

deference 80

Defferre, Gaston 377, 424

deflation 266, 269, 276

de-industrialisation 394

Delanoë, Bertrand 451

Delcassé, Théophile 230, 242

Delors, Jacques 378, 424, 425, 438

demand 166, 168, 170, 171, 174, 177, 266, 315

demobilisation 254

democracy 132, 144, 145, 161, 182, 221, 227, 239, 270, 310

Démocrate-socialistes 205, 207

Démocratie libérale 449

Denmark 283, 379

Depardieu, Gérard 412

deportation 253, 313

depression, inter-war 264–81

deputies 113, 117, 118, 125, 133, 147, 182, 185, 229, 267, 269

Deputies, Chamber of 183

dérogeance 80

Déroulède, Paul 230, 232

Derrida, Jacques 413

desertion 149, 157, 158

Desmoulins, Camille 133

Detoeuf, Auguste 268

Diderot, Denis 89

Dien Bien Phu, battle of 350

Dinant 285

Directory 148–50

disarmement 276

disease 23, 61

divorce 228, 328, 401, 415

doctors 332

Dorgères, Henri 271

Dorian, Pierre 227

Doriot, Jacques 280, 294–6

Douai 19

Doumergue, Gaston 241, 269, 273, 274

Doyle, William 64

dragonnades 72

Dreyfus affair 230, 232

Drieu La Rochelle, Pierre 294

drugs 408

Ducos, Roger 133, 150

Dufaure, Jules 227

Dumas, Roland 398, 399

Dumouriez, General 136

Dunkirk 285

Dunkirk, Treaty of 346

Dupont de l’Eure 194

Duruy, Victor 217


Ecoles des Mines 395

Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques 395

Ecole Nationale d’Administration 335, 378, 390, 395, 415, 426, 440

Ecole Normale Supérieure 395

Ecole Polytechnique 335, 390, 395, 415

economic structures 26, 53, 253–6, 289, 293–4, 316–26, 370, 380, 383–94, 431, 443

education 11, 69, 81, 90, 114, 126, 148, 180, 181, 183, 195, 205, 206, 210, 228–9, 234, 239, 242, 250, 258, 291, 292, 333–4, 374, 406, 410–11, 425, 436, 452

   girls 195

   secondary 153, 183, 258, 291, 333–4, 396, 410, 415

   higher 40, 335, 396, 410

Edward I, King of England 50

Edward III, King of England 50–1

Egypt 150, 157, 356

Eisenhower, General 308, 309

Elba 159

elections 112, 125, 154, 185, 187, 189, 196, 201–6, 211, 213–15, 217, 221, 224, 226, 258–9, 268, 275–7, 345, 363, 370, 418, 419, 422, 425, 428, 435, 441, 443

   indirect 135, 147, 150

   presidential 363, 371, 418, 420, 438–40, 445

electorate 125, 132, 135, 136, 147, 150, 159, 180, 181, 183, 187, 188, 189, 190, 193, 194, 196, 197, 199, 201, 206, 207, 220, 258, 259, 267, 300, 339, 348, 362, 449

electricity 249, 256, 389, 430, 452, 455

electro-metallurgy 173

electronics 386

Elf oil 398, 435

élites, social 4–5, 13–14, 41, 49, 64, 65, 78, 97, 101, 104, 106, 109–13, 122, 157, 161, 162, 163, 180–2, 183, 184, 187, 189, 190, 191, 201, 207, 210, 211, 213, 217, 220, 227, 229, 234, 240, 258, 267, 269, 270, 276, 291, 299, 304, 310, 313, 315, 335–6, 390, 395–400, 451

emigration 72

émigrés 128, 130, 133, 142, 149, 152, 157, 159, 184, 187, 188

Emmanuelli, Henri 396

Empire 266, 287, 298, 306, 324, 352, 355

   decolonisation 344, 348

Empire, First 12, 153–60

   opposition to 157–60

Empire, Second 178, 179, 208–21

   liberalisation of 212–17, 218, 220

   support for 210–11, 217, 218, 220

   opposition to 211, 212–18, 221

employers 250, 265, 280, 281, 294, 310, 335

employers, organisations 249, 271

employment 168, 179

Ems telegram 219

enclosure 85, 116, 129

Encylopédie 89–91

energy, sources of 28

engineering 167, 169, 179, 249, 255

English language 331, 411

Enlightenment 92–3

ennoblement 64, 78, 79, 80, 82, 113

enterprises, small and medium 391, 392

environmental concerns 393

equality 152, 165, 183

Ere nouvelle, L’ 280

Estate, Third 109–16, 117–18

Estates-General 38, 47, 49, 56, 61, 64, 65, 89, 100, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109–19

estates, provincial 49, 53, 68, 74, 89, 93, 104, 109, 111, 112

ethnicity 35

Eugènie, Empress 219

EuroDisney 412

Euro-fighter 458

Euromarché 325

Euro-scepticism 403, 446, 456

European Coal and Steel Community 322

European Commission 390, 445, 455

European constitution, draft 456

European Court of Justice 454

European Defence Community 352

European Economic Community 321, 322–4, 369–70, 379, 430

European integration 12, 260

European Monetary Union 402, 441, 451, 454

European Parliament 416

European Rapid Reaction Force 459

European Union 382, 438, 453, 456, 457, 459, 462, 464

Evans, Richard, J, 1

Evian agreement 366

exchange controls 278, 279

excommunication 45, 47, 152

executions 139

expenditure, government 93, 332

expositions, international 213

Express, L’ 357, 413

extreme right 232–4, 266, 272, 280, 294, 353, 366, 427, 449, 463


Fabius, Laurent 388, 426, 445, 450, 456

factory occupations 277

fairs 19, 34, 176

family 20, 61, 152, 328, 401

family allowances 331, 424

famine 21–5, 48, 53, 60

famine ‘plot’ 108, 120

fascism 270, 273, 274, 280, 291, 294, 296

Faure, Edgar 351, 353

Favre, Jules 215

‘Fear’, Great 121

Febvre, Lucien 2, 3

federalism 144–7

Fédération de la gauche démocrate et socialiste 371

Fédération républicaine 276

Fernandel 267

Ferry, Jules 228

festivities, public 210, 292

feudalism 31, 49, 53, 57, 97

feudal levy 54

feudistes 84

Feuillants 132, 133, 134

fief 32

Figaro, Le 451

Figaro Magazine 413

Finance Ministry 397, 407

finances, government 58, 61, 75, 86, 89, 93, 94, 101, 103, 109, 126, 137, 151, 237, 247

financiers 75, 182, 212, 217, 227, 278

Finland 283

Flanders 31, 51, 56, 69, 120

Flanders, Counts of 35, 43, 45, 50

Flandin, Pierre-Etienne 269

Fleury, Cardinal de 87

Fleury-sur-Loire 30

‘flour war’ 92

FNAC 326, 391

Foch, Marshal 252, 257

folklore 107, 293

Fontainbleau 159

food-processing industry 324, 392

food supply 7, 15–20, 21, 25, 27, 48, 61, 66, 69, 75, 77, 85, 92, 106, 133, 139, 155, 157, 163, 166, 249, 303, 305

Force Ouvrière 348

Forces françaises de l’Intérieur (FFI) 308, 309

foreign policy 136, 196, 200, 212, 218–19, 236, 237–8, 241, 257, 259, 270, 276, 366–70, 379, 416, 422, 424, 430, 456–7

forests 18, 85

Fos 379

Foucault, Michel 2, 413

Fouché, Joseph 154, 185

Fould, Achille 210, 212

Fourastié, Jean 315

France, origins 13

France-Ouest 413

France-Télécom 391

Franche-Comté 69, 84, 112, 120

Franchet d’Esperey, Marshal 280

Franco-Prussian war 208, 218–21, 224

François I, King of France 57–8, 59, 63

Frankish kingdoms 13

Francs-Tireurs et Partisans Français (FTPF) 307

Franz-Ferdinand, Archduke 237

Freemasonry 91, 291, 300, 396

Free French 298, 306–8

Frenay, Henri 303

French Guard 119

French language 57, 195, 239

Freycinet, Charles 229

Frondes 24, 65–9

frontiers 35, 37, 43, 58, 161, 166

Front de libération nationale (FLN) 352, 354, 357, 366

Front national 307, 336, 404, 418, 427, 428, 429, 432, 434, 438, 442, 448

Front républicain 353

Furet, François 100, 130

furniture 79, 81


gabelle 86

Gaillard, Félix 357

Gallicanism 39, 41, 47

Gambetta, Léon 215, 218, 226, 230

gambling 339, 413

Gamelin, General 283, 285

gas production 389, 430

Gaudin, C., 151

Gaulle, General Charles de 286, 287, 291, 306–8, 319, 341–4, 349, 358–77, 398, 422, 437, 456

Gaullism 353, 354, 358, 377

Gendarmerie 153

gender 5

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 322

Générale des Eaux 390

generations 91, 313, 326

genetic engineering 393

genocide 131

geography 6–12, 168

Gensonné, Armand 133

Georges, General 285

Gerlier, Cardinal 293

Germain, Henri 227

Germanisation 252, 288

Germany 97, 169, 221, 224, 234, 236, 237, 238, 242, 253, 256, 257, 260, 265, 270, 272, 281, 282, 289, 290, 293, 296, 303, 306, 308, 309, 321, 322, 346, 352, 383, 389, 430, 435, 438, 443, 453, 455

Gildea, Robert 312

Gironde 133

Girondins 132, 133, 134, 135–7, 141, 147

Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry 377, 378, 385, 398, 414–17, 420, 427, 428, 429, 456

globalisation 12, 382, 389, 391, 400, 411, 437, 443, 445, 460, 464

Gluckstein, Daniel 446

Gorbachev, Mikhail 419, 431

Go Sport 391

Governors, provincial 56, 64

Gramont, Duc de 219

Gramsci, Antonio 4

Grande Arche 413

Grandes écoles 319, 335, 395–6, 410

Green Party 442, 444, 446, 450

Gregory VII, Pope 46

Grenoble 89, 106, 384, 396

Grimaud, Maurice 374

Gucci 391

guerilla warfare 139, 144, 158

Guesde, Jules 242

Guienne 50, 67, 112

Guignols, Les 412

guilds 20, 28, 78, 92, 93, 94, 115, 124, 141, 161

Guise family 59, 62

Guizot, François 99, 189, 196, 198, 210

gulags 131

Gulf Wars 434, 459

Haberer, Jean-Yves 397

habitat 8, 84

Habsburg Empire 69, 87

Haby, René 334

Haine, La 458

Hallyday, Johnny 339

handicapped 332

harkis 356, 366

Haussmann, Georges 212, 217

headscarves 406–7

health care 332, 400–1, 403, 444, 452

Hébert, Jacques-René 145

Hénon, Jacques 211

Henri II 59, 60

Henri III 58, 61–2

Henri IV 57, 59, 61, 62–4, 69

Henry II, King of England 43

Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor 43

Henry V, King of England 51

Henry VI, King of England 51

Hérault de Séchelles, Marie-Jean 143

heresy 45, 59, 60, 61, 72

heritage 394

Herriot, Edouard 264, 269, 274, 348

historians, popular 73, 160

historiography 1–6, 15, 30, 54, 70, 97, 99–101, 130, 155, 160, 161, 210, 215

Hitler, Adolf 279, 282, 297, 298, 309

Hoche, General 148

Ho Chi Minh 350

Hohenzollern candidature 218–19

holidays 278, 339, 387, 412

Holland 94, 138

Hollande, François 450–1

Holy League 59, 61, 62, 63

Holy Oil 37

homage 35, 50

honour, cult of 79, 82, 115

horse racing 413

housing 229, 256, 330–1, 337

housing estates 408–9

Hue, Robert 446, 450

Hufton, Olwen 5

Hugh Capet 34

Hugo, Victor 208

humanism 57, 58

Humanité, L’ 305

Hundred Days 159–60, 185

Hundred Years War 14, 24, 40, 48–53, 56

Hungary 348, 419

hunting 84, 122, 179

Hussey, Andrew 407

hydro-electricity 318

hypothermia 23


iconoclasm 60, 140, 143

ideology 142

Ile-de-France 1, 35, 39, 43

illegitimacy 20

illness 82

IMF 461

immigrants, repatriation of 265

immigration 328, 401, 403–6, 428, 432, 438, 444, 455

incomes 166, 168, 265, 321, 325, 329, 330

income tax 230, 232, 237

India 464

Indo-China 346, 350–1, 357

industry 97, 166–8, 173–6, 178, 182, 255, 264, 293, 294, 317

inequality 257–8, 331, 370

inflation 133, 137, 161, 248, 257, 260, 262–4, 278, 321, 325, 329, 338, 350, 370, 380, 384–7, 388, 416, 431, 435, 443

inheritance 47, 80, 257

information, diffusion of 91, 167

information technology 11, 167, 248, 385, 386, 394, 402, 458

insecurity 338

Inspection des Finances 395

intellectuals 304, 311

intendants 65, 73–4, 104

International, Workers 246

internet 392

investment 168, 265, 325

Iran 383

Iraq 383, 409, 456, 459

Ireland 72, 379

Isabelle, Queen of England 50

Israel 356

Italian zone of occupation 300

Italy 149, 150, 152, 210, 260


Jackson, Julian 276

Jacobin club 132, 133, 134, 136

Jacobins 132, 133, 134, 137, 138, 142, 144, 145, 147, 148, 150, 151, 157, 159, 165, 185, 221

jacquerie 34, 49

Jansenism 72, 88

Japan 390

Jaurès, Jean 423

Jemappes, battle of 138

Jeunesse dorée 148

Jeunesses patriotes 270

Joan of Arc 53, 234, 242, 292

Joffre, Marshal 244–5

John II 49, 51

John, King of England 42, 43

John XXIII, Pope 339, 409

John-Paul II, Pope 410

Joly de Fleury, Jean-François 93

Jospin, Lionel 411, 438–40, 441–6, 450, 451

Joubert, General 150

Jouhaux, Léon 268

journalists 132, 300, 311

journeymen 81, 141

July Monarchy 193–8, 204, 213

   support for 196

   opposition to 196, 198

June insurrection (1848) 182, 202–4

Juppé, Alain 399, 438, 440, 441, 452, 453

‘just’ war 242


Kayser, Jacques 274

Kerensky, Alexander 280

Keynes, John Maynard 385, 386, 424

Koenig, General 312

Korean War 321


La Bourdonnaie, François 188, 189

Labour Charter 294

labour market 255, 317, 322, 325, 328, 402, 440, 452

labour service 84, 86, 93, 122, 301

Labrousse, Ernest 2

Lacan, Jacques 413

Lacoste, Robert 303

Lafayette, M-J-P-Y, Marquis de 111, 122, 124, 131, 133, 134, 192

Lagny 19

Laguillier, Arlette 446

Lamartine, Alphonse de 199

Lambert, Charles-Claude-Guillaume 94

Lamoignon, Chrétien-François de 106

landowners 21, 108, 113, 116, 120, 129, 141, 154, 161, 180, 182, 185, 187, 193, 227, 256, 267, 292

landownership 24, 79, 80, 83, 84, 129, 162

landscape 7–11, 316

Lang, Jack 412

languages 80

Languedoc 44, 59, 120

langue d’oc 48

langue d’oil 48

La Rochefoucauld, Louis-Alexandre, Duc de 111

La Rochelle 19, 60, 64, 71

La Roche-aux-Moines, battle of 43

Larzac 424

Latin 57

Lausanne 142, 270

Laval, Pierre 260, 269, 270, 273, 280, 290, 294, 298, 301, 311

Lavisse, Ernest 239

Law, John 86

law, natural 124

lawyers 40, 47, 81, 83, 113, 154

League of Nations 259, 276

Leagues 270–3, 276, 280

Le Boeuf, Marshal 219

Lebrun, Albert, President 279

Lebrun, Charles François, Duc de Plaisance 151

Le Chapelier law 125

Le Creusot 217

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre 197, 199

Lefebvre, Georges 97, 99, 100, 122, 130

Legal system 34, 39, 41, 43, 47–8, 54, 57, 73, 74, 84, 90, 92, 115, 122, 124, 152, 182, 302, 397

Legion of Honour 153

Légion française des combattants 296

Legislative Assembly (1791–2) 133–5

Legitimists 196, 200, 225

Lehideux, François 290

leisure 179, 338, 412

Le Havre 26, 77

Lens 407

Le Pen, Jean-Marie 353, 427, 432, 438, 445, 447–8, 463

Lescure, Pierre 412

Le Tellier family 70

liberalism 161, 165, 181, 187, 188, 190, 193, 214, 215, 217

   neo-liberalism 402, 426

liberalisation, economic 350, 385, 415, 437, 444

liberation 302, 308–13

Libération 303

life expectancy 161, 317, 401

lifestyle 81, 82

Ligue communiste révolutionnaire 446

Lille 19, 162, 176, 197, 408, 425

lit de justice 88, 105

literacy 46, 59, 91, 113, 167, 180, 214

livestock 17–18, 21, 106, 163, 170

living standards 25, 33, 177, 178, 211, 326, 328, 337, 370, 388, 395, 435

Lloyd George, David 287

Locarno Pact 260

Locke, John 4

Loménie de Brienne, Etienne-Charles de 105–6

Longuet, Jean 246

Longueville family 65

Longwy 407

Lorraine 244, 288

Loubet, Emile, President 230

Louis le Débonnaire 30

Louis V 34

Louis VI 39, 42, 43

Louis VIII 44

Louis IX (Saint Louis) 37, 38, 40, 45

Louis XI 54, 56, 57

Louis XIII 64

Louis XIV 25, 57, 65, 67–77, 86

Louis XV 87, 89, 101

Louis XVI 89, 94, 101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 117, 118–19, 122, 130, 131, 132, 134, 136, 162

   execution of 136, 165, 185

Louis XVII 159

Louis XVIII 149, 159, 165, 183, 185

Louis-Philippe I 193, 196, 198

Louvre 413

Low Countries 149

Lozère 143

Ludendorff, General 252

Luddism 194

Lunéville, peace of 152

Lutte ouvrière 446

Luxembourg Commission 200

luxury goods 174, 391

LVMH 391

Lyon 10, 37, 74, 107, 144, 149, 176, 194, 205, 210, 211, 307, 396, 408


Maastricht Treaty 441

McDonalds 391, 412

MacMahon, Marshal 225, 226

Mâconnais 43, 120

Madagascar 350

Maquis 306

Maginot line 282, 283

Magne, Pierre 210

Magnin, Pierre-Joseph 227

Maine 120

Maistre, Joseph de 100

Mallet du Pan, Jacques 112

Malthus, Thomas 27

Malvy, Louis 247

Mamère, Noël 446

management 338, 389–92, 395

Mannheim 142

Mantes 398

manufacture 75, 77, 161, 162, 166, 176

   rural 21, 25, 26, 28, 84, 170, 179

manufacturers 113, 129

Maoists 374

Marat, Jean-Paul 132, 136

Marcel, Etienne 49

Marchais, Georges 375, 418, 419–21

maréchaussée 74

Marguerite de Valois 61

Marie-Antoinette, Queen 93, 103, 118

Marion, Paul 296

markets 19, 34, 107, 168, 173, 174–6

Marmont, Marshal 190

Marne, Battle of 244

marriage 16, 20, 21, 24, 339, 401

Marseille 10, 19, 24, 26, 77, 144, 149, 176, 236, 308, 396

Marseillaise 234

Marshall Plan 320, 322, 344–5, 346

martial law 149

Martignac, Jean-Baptiste de 189

Marxism 4, 78, 99, 107, 163, 246

massacres, prison 134

Massu, General 356, 358, 374

Mathiez, Albert 130

Matignon agreement 278

Matra 386

Maupeou, René-Nicolas de 89

Maurepas, Jean-Frédéric, Comte de 89

Mauroy, Pierre 386, 388, 423, 425–6

Maurras, Charles 232, 243

maxima, price 135, 140

Mazarin, Cardinal 64, 65, 69

medicine 20, 25

media, mass 11, 335, 395, 413–14, 446, 461

Medici, Catherine de 58

Medici, Marie de 64

Mégret, Bruno 447

Meissonier, Ernest 204

Méline, Jules 232, 236

memorials 253, 282

Mendès France, Pierre 274, 307, 350–4, 357, 362, 367, 374, 377

Mer, Francis 455

mercenaries 38, 119

merchants 26, 28, 40, 49, 81, 108, 118, 120, 129, 140, 154

Mercier, Ernest 271

Mers-el-Kebir, battle of 287, 298

Mery, Jean-Claude 398

Messier, Jean-Marie 390, 412

Messmer Pierre 378

metallurgical industries 19, 79, 167, 248, 249, 264, 337, 384, 386, 388, 407

Mettam, Roger 74

Metz 38, 58

Michelin 335, 390

middle classes 190, 197, 250, 258, 270, 280, 304, 336

   lower 81, 132, 195, 199, 226

   upper 144

Mignet, Auguste 99

migration 20, 26, 178, 179, 256, 272, 320, 323, 337, 338, 394

   temporary 28, 170

milice 301, 302, 305, 309

militias, urban 65, 86, 120, 122

Millerand, Alexandre 230, 242, 244, 259

mills, flour 16

minimum wage (SMIC – Salaire minimum interprofessionnel de croissance) 332, 387, 424, 437, 440, 450

ministers 182, 210

Minguettes, Les 408

Mirabeau, Gabriel-Honoré Riqueti de 111, 131

missionaries 188, 236

Mitterand, François 351, 352–3, 357, 362, 371, 374, 385, 389, 398, 411, 412, 414, 417–27, 428–40

Mitterand, Christophe 399

mobile guard 202

mobilisation, general 237–8, 241

mobility, social 83, 106, 154, 162, 177, 182, 183, 258

Moch, Jules 348

Molé, Louis-Mathieu de 190, 198

Mollet, Guy 346, 352, 354–6, 357, 359, 361

monarchists 144, 148–9, 151, 157, 221, 222, 224–6, 427

   ultras 185, 187

monarchy 13–14, 18, 32, 34–45, 54–95, 99–106, 109, 114, 116, 124, 125, 130, 131, 132, 161, 165, 188

   constitutional 125, 159, 180, 185, 187, 188

Monde, Le 357

money 19, 26, 37, 38, 77, 78, 86, 143

Monnet, Jean 319

Montagnards 136

Montauban 60, 71, 143

Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de 90

Montlhéry family 35

Montmorency family 35, 59

Montoire 297

Montpellier, 144

‘moral order’ 225, 270, 291

Moreau, General 150, 157

maritime trade 168

Morny, Charles-Auguste, Duc de 212

mortality 20–1, 177–8, 193, 253, 305

   infant 24

Moslems 355, 404–7, 409, 427, 463

mosques 405

Moulin, Jean 307, 423

mouvement 107, 164, 181, 224

Mouvement républicain populaire (MRP) 338, 341, 342, 343, 344, 348–9, 353, 357, 364

Mouvements Unis de la Résistance (MUR) 308

multinational companies 382

Mulhouse 162, 176

Munich agreement 279, 281

municipal councils 115, 122

munitions production 248, 251

music 243, 250, 265, 292, 392, 413

mutiny 246

myth 287, 292, 309, 311, 312


Nanterre 374

Nantes 26, 77, 396

   Edict of 63

   Revocation of 71

Napoleon I (see Bonaparte, Napoleon)

Napoleon II 192

Napoleon III (see Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte)

Napoleon, Prince Jérôme- 212, 213

Napoleon-Louis, Prince-Imperial 226

Napoleonic code 339

Nation 98

National, Le 198

National Assembly (1789–91) 111, 112, 117, 118, 122, 125, 126–30, 131, 132, 133, 147

National Assembly (1870) 222

National Assembly (5th Republic) 286, 361–2, 364, 433, 449, 463

National Committee (Comité national français) 287

National Guard 122, 132, 133, 134, 138, 143, 147, 192, 195, 197, 199, 202, 222, 223

national income 266

‘National Revolution’ 290–1, 300

National Statistical Institute (INSEE) 383

nationalism 11, 14, 53, 72, 90, 98, 159, 161, 183, 185, 232, 234, 236, 237, 238, 242, 258, 301

nationality law 431

nationalisation 205, 274, 275, 276, 310, 319, 386–7, 417, 424

National Workshops 200, 201, 202

NATO 346, 368, 459

Navy 145, 287, 458

Nazi–Soviet Pact 274, 282, 305

Necker, Jacques 82, 93, 94, 104, 105, 106, 110, 111, 117, 118, 119, 122, 152

New Caledonia 432

New Deal 276

New Labour 443

newspapers 91, 132, 150, 158, 167, 177, 189, 193, 199, 200, 205, 212, 214–15, 218, 227, 239, 242, 243, 250, 258, 270, 292, 296, 357, 409, 413

Nice 142, 396

Nîmes 60, 143, 144

Nivelle, General 245, 251

Nivernais 84

Noailles, Louis-Marie, Vicomte de 122

noble ‘reaction’ 83

nobles 14, 31, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42–3, 48, 49, 54, 55–7, 58, 59, 61, 62, 64, 65–81, 82, 83, 97, 99, 103, 109, 114–15, 116, 117, 118, 122, 123, 124, 128, 130, 139, 144, 151, 153, 161, 162, 180, 184, 185–93

nobles, imperial 153

Normandy 42, 43, 51, 59, 67, 120, 144, 145, 308

   Dukes of 35

Nord 129, 288, 294

North Africa 272, 299, 307

Norway 283

notables 78, 125, 159, 160, 162, 180–1, 185, 188, 192, 201, 293

Notre-Dame de Paris 47

nuclear power 324, 383

nuclear weapons 367–8, 430, 441, 458

Nu-pieds revolt 67

nutrition 20, 170, 178, 250, 256


oath, tennis court 118

oath of loyalty, clergy 127

occupation 149, 156, 249, 253, 286, 288–9, 293

OECD 461

OEEC 322

office, venal 63–4, 65, 73, 74, 86, 87, 89, 101, 113, 115, 124

officials, election of 124

Office national du blé 278

oil 2, 318, 379, 383–4, 385, 415, 416, 464

old age 332

Ollivier, Emile 217, 219

Ophuls, Marcel 312

opportunistes 230

orders, social 77–81, 162

orders, religious 92, 126, 188, 234

Ordinances, July (1830) 190

Oréal, L’ 389

Orléans 19, 82, 169

Orléans family 65, 79, 191

Orléans, Philippe d’ 86

Orléanists 214, 225

Ormesson, Marquis d’ 93

Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor 43


pacifism 272

Pagnol, Marcel 267

Palestine 409

pamphlets 91, 109, 110, 112

Pantheon 423

pantouflage 335, 397

Papacy 47, 60, 152, 226, 338

Papal states 152, 213

Papon, Maurice 366

Pareto 4

Paribas 386

Paris 10, 18, 19, 23, 29, 40, 43, 45, 49, 53, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 75, 89, 99, 107, 109, 111, 113, 115, 118, 119, 120, 122, 125, 134, 136, 139, 140, 141, 142, 144, 145, 147, 148, 158, 162, 164, 169, 176, 178–9, 181, 190, 194, 197, 198, 199, 202, 205, 206, 210, 211, 212, 214, 215, 217, 218, 219, 234, 251, 252, 256, 262, 265, 286, 290, 296, 304, 308, 313, 330, 357, 366, 374, 391, 396, 413, 416

Paris Commune (1871) 221–4

Paris, siege of 221–4

Paris, Treaty of 87

Paris-Match 413

parishes 45, 60, 91

parlements 40, 53, 57, 65, 72, 74, 82, 87–9, 92, 93, 94, 101, 104, 105–6, 109–10, 113

Parodi, Alexandre 312

parties, political 136, 141, 165, 180, 181, 201, 205, 227, 230, 232, 267

   funding 398

Parti des travailleurs 446

Parti populaire français 280, 296

Parti social français 280

Party, Third 214

Pas-de-Calais 288

Pasqua, Charles 438

patriotes 109, 110, 111, 112, 119, 129, 133

Paul IV, Pope 410

paulette 63

Paxton, Robert 312

Peace negociations 244, 246–7, 251

‘Peace of God’ 45

peasants 16–17, 19, 27, 33–4, 75, 83, 84–6, 94, 100, 107, 108, 116, 120, 122, 129, 139, 140, 143, 144, 161, 162, 170, 200, 205, 206, 210, 216, 226, 235, 249, 250, 256, 258, 267, 271, 294, 304, 353, 392–4

Peasant Corporation 294

Péchiney-Ugine-Kuhlman 325, 388

Peers, Chamber of 183

Péguy, Charles 236

pensions 230, 232, 263, 273, 332, 402, 443, 452

Pétain, Marshal 246, 271, 280, 283, 286–7, 309–11, 417

Petit parisien, Le 236

petitions 142, 194

Peugeot 269, 325

Peugeot/Citroën 390

Pflimlin, Pierre 357, 358, 359, 361

Phélypeaux family 70

Philippe II Augustus 37, 38, 40, 42, 43–4

Philippe IV le Bel 37, 38, 45, 47, 50

Philippe VI 50

Philosophes 90

Philosophy 413

phylloxera 171

Piaf, Edith 267

Picard, Ernest 215

Picardy 48, 59, 128

Picasso, Pablo 344

Pichegru, General 157

Pichon, Stephen 241

Piedmont-Sardinia 212

Pieds-noirs 328, 366

pilgrimages 58

Pinault-Printemps-Redoute 391

Pinay, Antoine 322, 350, 359

Pinchemel, Philippe 6

Pineau, Christian 303

Pisani law 323

Pius VI, Pope 127

Pius VII, Pope 152

Pius XII, Pope 338

plague 23–4, 48, 53, 60

Plan, the 319, 324

planning, economic 268, 294, 299, 319, 324

plebiscites 151, 153, 207, 208, 218

Poher, Alain 377

Poincaré, Raymond President 230, 236, 237, 241, 242, 259, 260, 263, 264

Poitiers, Battle of 49, 51

Poitou 44

Poland 260, 282, 285

police 74, 157, 182, 280, 287, 301, 302, 304, 308, 311, 366, 374, 408–9, 444

Polignac, Jules-Auguste, Prince de 189, 190

political prisoners 147

politicians 162, 258, 395

politicisation 83, 109, 113, 114, 115, 117, 125, 129, 131, 132, 136, 141, 161, 189, 194, 200, 204, 207, 211, 214, 227, 229, 462

Pompidou, Georges, President 363, 364, 374, 375–81, 398, 414

Pontoise 55

Popkin, Jeremy 100

Popular Front 273–80, 286, 291, 294, 313, 386

population 7–11, 12, 20–6, 37, 48, 53, 58, 64, 75, 82, 84, 166, 168, 170, 174, 177, 178, 253, 317, 327, 395

popular societies 132, 134, 138, 141, 145, 147

popular sovereignty 98, 124, 130, 135, 142, 184

post-modernism 2–3

post office 389

Potsdam 344

Poujadism 336, 353

poverty 66, 388, 407–8

power, possession of 84, 180, 182, 239–40, 258

Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges 47

precedent, legal 58

prefectoral system 151, 312, 424

pre-industrial society 97, 106, 162, 163, 166

presidency 204, 226, 259, 270, 273, 361, 364, 365

Président du conseil 226, 363

pressure groups 182

Prévost-Paradol, Lucien 216

prices 21, 85, 106, 163, 171, 249–50, 256, 264, 266, 268, 269

primogeniture 35

prisoners-of-war 286, 313

privatisation 388, 413, 428, 430–1, 435, 441, 450, 461

privilege 78, 80, 81, 93, 94, 111, 114, 115, 124, 162, 180

productivity 162, 166, 167, 168, 294, 322, 383

professions, liberal 59, 78, 81, 91, 113, 129, 132, 141, 162, 180, 182, 185, 193, 227, 267

profits 249, 250, 267

propaganda 243

property development 379, 388

property, private 48, 124, 129, 136, 142, 143, 152, 180, 184, 258

prostitution 82

protection, tariff 168, 171, 196, 213, 217, 229, 255, 268, 321

protest, popular 23, 25, 34, 65, 66, 69, 85, 86, 92, 107–9, 119, 120–2, 123, 133, 137, 139, 147, 158, 182, 197, 200, 202, 208, 225, 235, 269, 273, 403, 441, 444, 463

   1968 372–5, 419

Provisional Government (1848) 198, 199, 200–2

Provisional Government of National Defence (1870) 220–1

Provisional Government (1944) 312

Protestantism 58–64, 71–2, 92, 114, 143

   defeat of 60

proto-industrialisation 28

Provins 19

Prussia 87, 134, 218

public opinion 211, 219

public works 196, 210, 229

publishing 91

Pucheu, Pierre 290, 296

pulpit 92

purges, of administration 159, 187, 193, 228, 291, 311


Quercy 67

Queuille, Henri 348


Rabaut Saint-Etienne, Jean-Paul 110

racism 366, 403, 404, 408, 456

Radar 325

radio 258, 275, 287, 292, 296, 357

Radical party 226, 230, 236, 237, 247, 261, 262, 264, 267, 268–9, 273–80, 343, 346, 348, 353, 357, 364, 370–1

Raffarin, Jean-Pierre 451

railways 10, 11, 167, 168–74, 179, 183, 196, 210, 229, 256, 259, 279, 318, 389

rape 408

Ramadier, Paul 346, 348

Raoul de Vermandois 39

Rassemblement du Peuple Français (RPF) 349

Rassemblement pour la République (RPR) 398, 416, 420, 428, 429, 434, 438, 449

Rastadt, Treaty of 77

rationing 249, 305

reading rooms 91

re-armament 270, 276, 279, 281, 347

recall, right of 142

reconstruction 254, 312, 313, 315, 317–21

referenda 132, 340, 342, 359, 363, 366

Réforme, La 198

refrigerators 330

refugees 253, 286

regions 169

regional policy 384

Reims 31, 37, 45

relics, holy 58

religion 21, 58, 67, 82, 91, 114, 128, 140, 143, 148, 152, 159, 180, 185, 188, 195, 201, 229, 230, 242, 303, 326, 328, 338–9, 409

religion, popular 58

remonstrances 87

Rémusat, Charles de 190

Renault 319, 405

Rennes 106, 112, 337

rentiers 263, 267

rents 21, 24, 84, 85, 269

replacements, military 157

reparations 257, 259, 263, 270

repression 139, 147, 151, 152, 153, 157, 185, 187, 195–6, 204, 207, 208, 211, 212, 224, 235, 238, 239, 292, 297, 301, 348

Republic, First 133

Republic, Second 198–208, 211

Republic, Third 181, 182, 183, 220–40, 241–90, 340–1, 360

Republic, Fourth 340–60, 428

Republic, Fifth 98

Républicains-Indépendants 378

Republicans 98, 144, 154, 157, 188, 189, 192, 194–8, 201, 205, 206, 207, 211, 214–18, 219, 221, 222, 225–7, 229, 234–5, 240

requisitioning 143, 249

residence, dual 79

résistance 107, 164, 181, 224

resistance 293, 300, 303–10, 312, 313, 341, 417

Restoration 150, 154, 159, 165, 183–93, 196, 225

   opposition to 185–91

Réveillon, Jean-Baptiste 107

revolts 66–7, 68, 86

Revolution of 1789 12, 34, 39, 56, 64

   causes 78, 82, 95, 99–101, 116–30

   course of 78, 92, 128

   Représentants en mission 138, 140

   significance of 29, 81, 92, 161–4, 165, 166, 180, 181, 185, 240, 313

Revolution of 1830 190–3

Revolution of 1848 197–9

Revolution, 4 September 1870 220

revolutions 100, 374

Reynaud, Paul 265, 283, 286

Rhineland 149, 152, 259

Rhône-Poulenc 388, 435

Richard I, King of England 43

Richelieu, Armand-Jean Duplessis, Cardinal-duc de 64, 65, 69

rights of usage 85

right to work 148, 200, 205

Rioux, J-P., 327

roads 102, 104, 168, 169, 210

Robert Capet 35

Robert Curthose 35

Robespierre, Maximilien 111, 133, 134, 136, 140, 145, 146, 165

Rocard, Michel 357, 420, 425, 433–4, 435, 436

Roederer, Pierre-Louis 110

Rohan, Henri, duc de 64

Rollat, Alain 412

Rome 13, 19, 30, 57, 90, 199

Rome, Treaty of 322, 360, 370

Roubaix 407

Rouen 10, 19, 26, 77, 112, 169, 176

Rouher, Eugène 210, 212

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 90

Rouvier, Maurice 229

Ruhr 259, 263

rumours 120, 139, 143

rural–urban relations 116

Russia 156, 157, 236, 237, 241, 242, 246, 251, 257, 274, 276, 282, 303, 419


sacrilege 188

Saint-Bartholemew, Massacre 61

Sainte-Chapelle 40

Sainteny, Jean 350

Saint-Etienne 252, 425

Saint-Gobain 227

Saint Helena 160

Saint-Marc Girardin 194

Saint-Nazaire 308

saints 58

Salan, General 358

Saliège, Mgr Jules-Géraud 301

salons 91, 109

salt 19

sans-culottes 140, 141–2, 145, 147, 205

Saracens 18

Sarajevo 237

Sarkozy, Nicolas 407, 452, 455

Sarrien, Jean 232

Sartre, Jean-Paul 344

Sauvy, Alfred 268

Savary, Alain 424, 425

Schlieffen Plan 244

Schlumberger 335

Schneider family 269

Schoelcher, Victor 423

Schuman, Robert 322, 348

science 173

second homes 394

secret service 398

sections 141, 142

secularisation 180

Sedan 285

Sedan, battle of 219

Séguin, Philippe 434, 438

Ségur Law 83

seigneurial system 19, 24, 31, 33, 73, 74, 84, 85, 86, 90, 109, 114, 115, 116, 120, 122–3, 128, 135, 159, 161, 226

Seillière, Ernest-Antoine 400

Sembat, Marcel 242

seminaries 188

Senate 150, 153, 158, 159, 273, 275, 279, 281, 377

Senlis 34

September 11, 2001 456

serfs 33, 84, 85, 92, 122

servants 82

service sector 176–7, 255, 317, 336, 394

Seven Years War 87, 94

Seyssel, Claude de 57

sex 80, 328

Sharia 406

shares 264, 388, 390

shipbuilding 386, 388

shopkeepers 81, 119, 140, 141, 177, 267, 268, 326, 336, 391

Siècle, Le 196

Sieyès, Emmanuel-Joseph 110, 112, 117, 131, 150

silk industry 107, 176, 268

Simon, Jules 215, 224

Single European Act 387, 431

single parent families 401

Skocpol, Theda 3

slavery 26, 77, 152, 423

SNCF (Société nationale des chemins de fer français) 441, 452

Soboul, Albert 130

socialism 195, 224, 230, 232, 235–6

Socialist Party 236, 237, 238, 242, 246–7, 251, 259, 260–2, 268, 273–9, 281, 305, 312, 341, 342, 343, 345–6, 348, 352, 353, 357, 358, 359, 370, 377, 385, 388, 389, 398, 402, 410, 413, 417–26, 428–40, 441–6, 450–1, 452, 456

social Catholicism 291

social fear 106, 163, 179, 181, 197, 201, 205, 206, 207, 218, 234, 310, 349

socialisation 5, 14, 141, 182

social mobility 333, 335–6, 406

social reform 229, 230, 232, 236, 259, 260, 264, 267, 274, 277, 310, 315, 328–9

social systems 5, 9, 13–14, 15, 20, 77, 327

Société des Droits de l’Homme 195

Society of Thirty 109

Soissons 35

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 419

Soubise, Benjamin de Rohan, duc de 64

sovereigny, national 454, 462

Spain 61, 62, 66, 187, 219

Spanish Republic 279, 306

Special Operations Executive (SOE) 308

sport 339, 401

Stalin, Joseph 131, 343

state, development of 3–4, 14, 19, 29, 30, 31, 34, 69, 107, 138, 141, 143, 147, 148, 149, 151, 154, 161, 163, 182–3, 185, 207, 235, 249, 267, 269, 294, 299, 317–60, 382, 389, 424, 461

statistics 151, 268

Statute of Jews 300

status, social 77, 152, 153, 180

Stavisky, Alexandre 272

steam engine 167

stock exchange 391

Strasburg 69, 113

strategic planning 282, 283, 368–9

Strauss-Kahn, Dominique 444, 445, 450

stress 395, 400

strikes 107, 125, 194, 212, 213, 216, 217, 228, 236, 251, 252, 277, 279, 280, 294, 329, 374, 431, 435, 452

students 112, 197, 303, 374, 427, 431

Suez affair 322, 366

Suez bank 386, 391

Suger, Abbé 39, 42

super/hyper-markets 326, 379, 391

supply 166

Swiss Guards 134

Syria 298


Taittinger, Pierre 270

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de 111, 126, 131, 154

tanks 252, 285

Tardieu, André 260, 264, 273, 280

Taylor, George 100

taxation 25, 37, 38–42, 44, 47, 48, 49, 54, 56, 61, 65, 66–7, 69, 72, 73, 75, 85, 86, 87, 89, 92, 93, 94, 104, 114, 116, 117, 118, 120, 128, 143, 152, 157, 170, 181, 184, 193, 201, 202, 205, 210, 248, 260, 267, 269, 276, 332, 350, 399, 400, 415, 436, 440, 445, 461

tax exemptions 144

tax farmers 75

teachers 195, 300, 334, 403, 436, 445, 452

technology 11, 15, 28, 29, 162, 166–74, 176, 249, 315, 317, 324, 338, 382, 400, 441, 460

telecommunications 379, 382, 385, 430

telegraph 11, 167, 183

telephone 11, 331

   mobile 391

television 330, 331, 337, 339, 357, 392, 411, 413, 415

Temple, Knights of the 38

tenure 84

Terray, Joseph-Marie 89

Terror, the 130–47, 148, 149, 161, 181, 199

   White 149, 189

terrorism 363, 409, 416, 428, 432, 456, 458, 464

textiles 19, 79, 167, 264, 268, 337, 384, 407

TGV (train à grande vitesse) 425

theatre 179

Thermidor 147

Thiers, Adolphe 190, 193, 197, 198, 217, 222, 224

Third Force 343

Thirty Years War 24, 65, 69–70

Thomson 388, 389

Thorez, Maurice 274, 343, 346

Tilly, Charles 3

tithes 34, 59, 66, 85, 86, 92, 109, 114, 115, 116, 120, 122, 128, 144, 159, 161, 226

Tocqueville, Alexis de 199, 204

torture 92, 356

Total/Fina/Elf 391, 435

Toul 58

Toulon 144

Toulouse 45, 49, 89, 251, 384

   Counts of 45

Tourcoing 408

Tour de France 413

tourism 394

Tours 56, 286

   Congress of 260

towns 49, 56, 74, 78, 81, 115, 169

trade 18–20, 26, 53, 64, 77, 85, 92, 108, 169, 176, 255

   external 26, 166, 176, 254, 263, 264, 265–6, 268, 315, 320, 350, 383

trade treaty, Anglo-French (1786) 107, 163

trades unions 125, 161, 213, 227, 238, 251, 260, 262, 268, 275, 278, 294, 331, 338, 375, 387, 402, 403, 426, 452, 461

tramways 179

transport 324, 382

trench warfare 244–6

Trenet, Charles 267

trente glorieuses 315

tricolour 122, 225, 234

Tripartisme 342–3, 345, 348

Triple Alliance 241

Trochu, General 220

Trotskyists 446, 451

Tunisia 353, 356

Troyes 19

   Treaty of 51

Truman, President 345

tuberculosis 332

Tuileries Palace 132, 134

Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques 78, 92, 93, 104

Turin 142

tyrannicide 61


underclass 179

underground railway 179

unemployment 82, 107, 139, 158, 163, 264, 265, 267, 276, 278, 317, 329, 337, 370, 381, 384, 388, 400, 401–3, 408, 416, 421, 426, 428, 431, 437, 438, 441, 443, 445

Unigenitus, Papal Bull 72

Union démocratique et socialiste de la Résistance (UDSR) 353

Union des Démocrates pour le République (UDR) 414

Union nationale 260, 264

Union pour la Démocratie française (UDF) 416, 428, 429, 434, 449

Union pour la majorité présidentielle 399, 449, 453

Union pour la Nouvelle République (UNR) 362, 363, 365, 378

Union sacrée 238, 242–3, 259, 272, 283

United Nations 456, 457

urbanisation 10–11, 18, 19–20, 27, 28–9, 53, 82, 166, 171, 177, 178–9

usury 205

Utrecht, Treaty of 77


Valenciennes 407

Val-Fourré 408

Vallat, Xavier 310

Valmy, Battle of 138

Valois, Count of 50

Varennes 132

Vartan, Sylvie 339

vassalage 42

Vatican Council 339

Vauban, Marshal 75

Védrine, Hubert 456

Vendée 131, 139, 144, 145

Vergniaud, Pierre-Victurnien 133

Verdun 58

   Battle of 245

   Treaty of 30

Verona, declaration of 149

Versailles, palace of 70, 103, 113, 117, 132, 223

   Treaty of 257

Vichy regime 280, 290, 349

   support for 291–3, 427

Vienot report 391

Vietnam 330

Vikings 18

Villèle, Joseph 187, 189

Villepin, Dominique de 453, 457

Villers-Cotterêts, Ordonnance of 57

violence 55, 61, 62, 66

Virgin Mary 58

Vivendi 390

Viviani, René 237, 241

Vizelle 111

Volney 110

Voltaire 90

Voynet, Dominique 450


wages 21, 24, 107, 155, 164, 174, 179, 194, 250, 267, 329, 338, 387, 388

Waldeck-Rousseau, René 230, 231

Walewski, Alexandre, comte de 212

Wallon, Henri 226

war, impact of 1, 4, 14, 20, 25, 30, 32, 35, 38, 43, 48, 53, 54, 58, 61, 67, 75–7, 87, 94, 104, 126, 133, 139, 157, 158, 161–4, 166, 234, 243

War, First World 236–7, 241–54

   consequences of 252–4

War, Second World 282–313

War of the Austrian Succession 87

Wars of Religion 60–4, 72

wars, revolutionary 134–7, 176

washing machines 331

water 85, 167

Waterloo, battle of 160, 185

waterways 10, 11, 18, 168

wealth, distribution of 180, 181

wealth tax 387, 424, 441

Weber, Max 13

welfare state 331–2, 386, 399, 400–1, 424, 431, 438, 440

Wellington, Duke of 158

Wendel family 129, 269

Weygand, General 285, 286, 291

William the Conqueror 35

William Rufus 35

wine 106, 163, 235

witchcraft 23

women 46, 80, 179, 201, 250, 251, 258, 267, 277, 291, 305, 310, 328, 338, 339, 341, 344, 401, 402, 408, 410, 436, 443

wood 85, 167

World Cup 407

workers 82, 84, 119, 132, 139, 140, 155, 174, 179, 190, 194, 195, 197, 198, 199–200, 202–4, 205, 210, 213, 216, 218, 235, 237, 238, 246, 248, 250, 251–2, 258, 262, 263, 267, 275, 304, 309, 310, 337–8, 347, 357, 387, 402, 403, 407, 419, 424, 450

working hours 194, 276, 278, 281, 294, 329, 387, 389, 402, 441, 443

Wright, Vincent 335


Yalta 344

yields, crop 15–16

youth groups 292, 297

Yugoslavia, former 459


Zay, Jean 274

Zidane, Zinedine 407

Zola, Emile 232

Zulu War 226


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