1000 years of annoying the French:
Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers. Was the guillotine a French invention? Non! It was invented in Yorkshi...
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| Summary: | Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers. Was the guillotine a French invention? Non! It was invented in Yorkshire. Ten centuries' worth of French historical 'facts' bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Introduction
13
1
When Is a Frenchman Not a Frenchman?
1066:
the Normans cross the Channel to kick the
Anglo-Saxons into shape for a 1000-year career of
annoying the French.
17
2
French-bashing in Its Infancy
As performed by some great
-
and some frankly awful
-
Kings of England. (Queens were still illegal.)
55
3
The Hundred Years War: A Huge Mistake
The hundred years from
1337
to
1453:
more than
just a mathematical error.
80
4
Joan of Arc: A Martyr to French Propaganda
The public roasting given to France s patron saint,
or what really happened in
1431. 125
5
Calais: The Last Last Bit of English Territory in
France The French town that was a British colony for
200
years, and the scene of Henry Vlll s greatest
fashion moment.
144
6
Mary Queen of Scots: A French Head on Scottish
Shoulders
When she was executed, no one was mom annoyed
than the French. Apart from
Мату
herself, of course.
156
7
French Canada, or How to Lose a Colony
French kings let the Brits steal the top half of a
continent.
8
Charles II: The Man Who Taught Everyone to
Distrust French Motives for Doing
Absolutely Anything
The English fop who sought political asylum in
Paris, betrayed his own country and then accidentally
tricked the French into betraying themselves.
216
9
Champagne:
Dom Pérignon
Gets It Wrong
Proof that the French didn t invent their national
drink.
232
10
Eclipsing the Sun King
Louis
XIV (1638 -1715),
the French King with a
giant bladder and an ego to match.
241
11
Voltaire: A Frenchman Who Loved to Get France
in the
Merde
The eighteenth-century French thinker who thought
more of Britain than of France.
263
12
Why Isn t America Called
L Amérique?
Which it might well have been, if the French hadn t
threatened to kill a British cow
... 276
13
American Independence
-
from France
1776:
the Brits weren t the only ones getting booted
out of America.
308
14
India and Tahiti: France Gets Lost in Paradise
A selection of historical Frenchmen lose India, fail to
notice Australia and give sexually transmitted
diseases to Pacific islanders.
322
10
15
The Guillotine, a British Invention
Another non-French idea.
347
16
The French Revolution: Let Them Eat Cake.
Or Failing That, Each Other
The tragi-comic truth about Bastille Day,
Marie-Antoinette and the impoverished aristos.
356
17
Napoleon: If
Je
Ruled the World
The rise of Bonaparte: soldier, emperor, lover of
Josephine and creator ofthe French brothel.
387
18
Wellington Puts the Boot in on Boney
Napoleon s downfall at the hands (and feet) ofthe
Iron Duke.
424
19
Food, Victorious Food
The baguette, the croissant and
le steak:
the real story
behind three quintessential^ French foodstuffs.
451
20
The Romantics: The Brits Trash French Art
How some hot-blooded Anglais stirred up French
culture in the early 1800s.
460
21
How Britain Killed Off the Last French Royals
. . .
and the Victorians said, It was an accident,
honest. Three times.
470
22
Why All French Wine Comes from America
The grape disease heroically cured (and, less
heroically, caused) by the Americans.
488
23
Edward
VII
Has a Frolicking Good Time in Paris
Dirty Bertie , the playboy prince who seduced
France into signing the Entente
Cordiale.
495
11
24
Britain and France Fight Side by Side for Once
World War One, in which English-speaking soldiers
took French leave, used French letters and sang
rude songs about the
mesdemoiselles.
510
25
World War Two, Part One
Don t mention Dunkirk.
529
26
World War Two, Part Two
Don t mention collaboration or the number of
French soldiers who actually landed on D-Day
either.
557
27
Le
Temps
du
Payback
From
de
Gaulle to Thatcher, or Chanel handbags at
ten paces.
590
28
Napoleon s Dream Comes True
The Channel Tunnel and some right royal gaffes that
prove we ve learned nothing from the past
1000
years.
626
Quotations
Mischievous things said by and about the French.
646
Select Bibliography
Further reading in English and
français.
654
Illustration Credits
661
Index
663
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