France

J.D. Hargreaves on the turn-of-the-century visit of Russia's Nicholas II to France and its wider diplomatic ramifications.

W.F. Knapp reappraises a great historian of nineteenth century France.

Arthur Waley on the pioneering French explorer and early scholar of Indian culture.

Charles Mauricheau-Beaupré surveys the broad sweep of history occupants of the Palace of Versailles have witnessed, and makes a case for its rehabilitation.

Erich Eyck looks at the battles fought - and won - by Napoleon's Prussian nemisis.

Denys Sutton sees the revolutionary work of French artists reflected in the Spring of Nations.

G.H.L. LeMay sets the unique military features of Napoleonic France against those of the eighteenth century at large.

The French poet was ordered to leave his city on January 3rd, 1463.

F.M. Godfrey describes the life of an important late medieval painter of royal subjects.

D.W. Brogan pays a historical visit to the city of light in the first half of the twentieth century.