France

The exhibition that opened in Paris, on October 15th, 1905, 'shocked many who saw, and many more who did not.'

Maxine Berg looks at the commercial battle to dominate Europe that ran alongside the wars with France, and the product revolution that gave Britain the edge in this field.

David Welch looks at the way that public art was used in both France and Britain to celebrate Napoleon and Nelson as national heroes, during their lifetimes and after.

Graham Gendall Norton travels in search of those who fought for the rights of all.

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.