France

Placing Colbert in the circumstances of his times, Geoffrey Treasure shows that he was much more than an efficient bureaucrat.

The peace treaty that temporarily ended hostilities between France and Britain during the Revolutionary Wars was signed on 25 March 1802.

The author of Les Misérables was born on February 26th, 1802.

Louis Braille died on January 6th, 1852, aged 43.

John Spiller shows that, in constitution-making in the USA (1787-89), France (1789-92) and Great Britain (1830-32), some men were considered more equal than others.

John D. Pelzer shows the connections between jazz, youth and the German Occupation.

Alan Farmer shows how the Republic survived the threat from the Right before the First World War.

Martin Evans discusses how the historian Robert Paxton shifted the terms of debate over the collective memory of Vichy France.

Philippe Pétain died on 23 July 1951, aged 95.

Reggie Oliver looks at the links between some of the highest-placed women in Louis XIV's court and some notorious Parisian dealers in drugs, death and the dark arts