Index |
Alba, Duke of 17 |
Alenoon, Francois, Duke of |
37, 38, 39 |
Alexander I of Russia 89 |
Alexandra, Tsarina 146 |
Alexei 146 |
All Pasha 32 |
Ancre, Marshal d’ 13 |
Angoulême, Duke of 112 |
Anjou, Duke of 37 |
Anne 77 |
Artois, Comte d’ 128 |
Augsburg, battle of 59 |
Ayatollah Khomeini 184 |
Barry, Madame du 86 |
Bastille, storming of the 86 |
Beauhamais, Josephine de 57, 80, 101, 120 |
Bernhard, Duke of Saxe Wiemar 59 |
Berry, Duke of 128,129, 130,131, 132 |
Bismarck, Otto Von 141 |
Blackshirts 152 |
Blucher, Marshal 122, 124 |
Boleyn, Anne 22 |
Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon 131, 135, 136, 137 |
Bonaparte, Napoleon see Napoleon |
Bonnie Prince Charlie see Charles Edward Stuart |
Bordeaux, Duke of 130, 131,132, 133,134 |
Bothwell, Earl of 29 |
Bourbon, Henri de 132 |
Boyne, Battle of the 75 |
Braun, Eva 145 |
Breganza, family of 60 |
Brezhnev, Leonid 128 |
Carter, Howard 151 |
Caseau, Charles de 49 |
Catherine the Great 78 |
Catholic League 24, 25, 37. 44 |
45, 46, 48 |
Chambord, Count of see Bordeaux, Duke of |
Charles, archduke 76 |
Charles Edward Stuart 79,80 |
Charles Emmanuel 109 |
Charles I 56,60,62,63,66,67,70 |
Charles II 68,77 |
Charles V 21,37 |
Charles IX 31,34 |
Charles X 119, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133,134 |
Churchill, Winston 148 |
Cinq-Mars, Marquis de 61 |
Civil War, Spanish 159 |
Civil War, English 51,57,62,63 |
Clement, Jacques 35, 38, 43, 45, 46 |
Coligny, Gaspard de 15, 34 concentration camps 171 |
Condé, Prince Louis de 31 |
Copernicus 14 |
Cordova, Gonsalvo Fernandez de 54 |
Cromwell, Oliver 51, 57, 60, 62, 63,66, 68 |
Cult of Reason 88, 94, 97 |
Danton, Georges Jacques 93 Darnley, Lord 29 |
Darlan, Admiral 177 |
de Gaulle, General Charles 169, 172, _ 177 |
Dekkers’ Almanac 53 |
Descartes, René 14 |
Dollfuss, Engelbert 149 |
Don John of Austria 36 |
Dreyfus, Alfred 145 |
Earl of Carnarvon 151 |
Edward VIII 155, 156 |
Elizabeth of France 49 |
Elizabeth I, Queen 22, 37 |
Entragues, Balzac d’ 46 |
Essex, Earls of 50 |
fascists 165 |
Ferdinand I 21 |
Ferdinand II 55, 59 |
Ferdinand, Prince 136 |
First World War 148 |
Fleurs, battle of 82 |
Francis II 20 |
Francis IV, Duke 132 |
Franco, Francisco 158 |
Franco-Prussian War 137, 141 Francois, Duke of Alencon 37 |
French Resistance 174 French Revolution 82, 83, 84, 85, |
86, 87, 88, 89, 93, 98, 99 Gabriel de Lorges 27 Galileo 14 |
George I 77 |
George VI 155, 156 |
Girondins 93 |
Goebbels 161 |
Greslot, Jerome 26 |
Grouchy, Marshal de 119, 125 guillotine 83, 84, 85 |
Guise, family of 18,25, 38, 43, 44, |
45.48 |
Haile Selassie 28 |
Hanoverians 78 |
HapsburgWars 30 |
Harlay, Achille de 13 |
Henri II 15, 23, 25, 27, 34, 43, 49 |
Henri III 24, 25, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, |
42, 43, 44, 45, 46 |
Henri IV 31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, |
42, 45, 47, 48 49, 53 |
Henri of Navarre 23, 35, 36,40,41 |
48.49 |
Henry VIII 22, 50 |
Herbert, Admiral 74 |
Hiroshima 178, 179 |
Hitler 139, 143, 144, 153, 154 160. |
161, 163, 166, 173, 174 175, 177 |
Huguenots 15, 23, 30, 31, 34, 36, 37, 41 |
Innocent X, Pope 65 |
Inquisition 14 |
James 11 73, 74 |
Jarnac, battle of 31 |
Jews. Nazi persecution of the 139 |
John of Austria 32 |
John Paul II, Pope 111 |
Khomeini, Ayatollah 182 |
Khrushchev 128 |
Kosygin, Alexei 128 |
Krafft, Ernst 161 |
Laud, Archbishop 60 |
League of Nations 150, 173 |
Leopold II 140 |
Lepanto, battle of 32, 33 |
Lincoln, Abraham 116 |
Lodi, battle of 107 |
London, the Great Fire of 71 |
the Great Plague of 70 |
Lorges, Gabriel de 25 |
Lorraine, Charles, Duke of 46, 79 |
Loubet, President Emile 145 |
Louis Philippe 119, 134,135, 137, 138 |
Louis, Prince of Condé 134 |
Louis XIII 13, 55, 58, 61, 69 |
Louis XIV 14, 64, 69, 72, 77, 82 |
Louis XV 64, 80, 82 |
Louis XVI 86, 89, 90, 91, 93, 95, 98, 100, 128 |
Louis XVII 96, 105 |
Louis XVIII 103, 120, 121 |
Louvel, Louis Pierre 129 |
MacArthur, General 68 |
Man in the Iron Mask 72 |
Mantignon, Marshal de 27 |
Margaret of Valois 34, 35, 38, 45 |
Marie Antoinette 86, 90, 93, 95, 112 |
Marie Louise of Austria 120 |
Mary, wife of William III 73 |
Mary, Queen of Scots 22, 29 |
Mary Tudor 50 |
Mayenne, Duke of 43, 44, 48 |
Mazarin, Cardinal 65, 72 |
Medici, Catherine de’ 20, 23, 24, 27, |
34,35,38,41,42,44, 162 |
Medici, Duke Cosimo de’ 16 |
Medici, Marie de’ 13, 55 |
Montgomery, Count of 25, 27 |
Montmorency 58 moon, man’s landing on the 181 |
Morton, Earl of 29 Murat, Joachim 122 |
Murray, Earl of 29 Mussolini 142, 151, 152, 160, 163, |
165, 174 175 177 |
Nagasaki 178, 179 |
Nagy, Imre 179 Napoleon 51,57,80,81,82,87,89, |
101,102,106,107,108,109,110, |
111, 113, 114, 115,116, 117, 118, |
119,120,121, 124,125, 126,127 |
Napoleon Ill 130,133,135,136, |
137, 138, 139,140,141 |
Napoleonic Wars 87 |
Nazi party 154, 160, 161, 171 |
Nicholas II, Tsar 146 |
Nixon, Richard 182 nuclear bomb 179 |
Orléans, Duke of 130 |
Parma, Duke of 28, 40 |
Pasteur, Louis 142 |
Pearl Harbour 176 |
Perouse, chief of 42 |
Petain, Marshal 160, 168, 170, 172 |
Philip II 21,37, 49, 60, 135 |
Philip III 60 |
Philip IV 55, 67, 70 |
Philip V 76, 77 |
Philippe, Duke of Orleans 65 |
Pius VI, Pope 82 108, 111 |
Pius VII, Pope 57, 116 plague 67, 70 |
Raleigh, Howard and Sir Walter 50 |
Rasputin, Grigori 146 |
Richelieu, Cardinal 61, 65 |
Rivera, Primo de 158 |
Robespierre, Maximilien 92, 103 |
Rohan, Duke of 58 |
Romanovs 147 |
Romulus, heirs of 28 |
Rousseau 145 |
Royale, Madame 112 |
Russian Revolution 84, 85 |
St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre |
34 35 |
St Cloud 45, 46 St Quentin 18, 19 |
Second World War 123,153,155,157 158, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167,168, 169,170,171,172 173,174 |
Sedan, battle of 137 |
Selim II, Sultan 15, 32 |
Sextus V 42 |
Shah of Iran 182 |
Simpson, Mrs Wallis 155,156, 157 |
Six Days’War 180 |
Spanish Civil War 157, 158 |
Spanish Succession, War of the 77 |
Stalin 128 |
Strafford, Earl of 60 |
Tallyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de 89 |
Third Reich 153, 163 |
Thirty Years’ War 59, 65 |
Three Mile Island 183 |
Tolentino, Treaty of 82 |
Torrington, Earl of 75 |
Trafalgar, battle of 114, 117 |
Tutankhamen, excavation of the |
tomb of 152 U-boats 167 |
Urban VIII, Pope 52 |
Victor Emmanuel I 110 |
Victor Emmanuel III 151 |
Villeneuve, 115 |
Watergate Scandal 182 |
Waterloo, battle of 122, 123, 124, 125 |
Wellington, Duke of 102, 114, 119, |
120,122 Weygand, Maxi me 169 |
William III (of Orange) 73, 74, 75 |
Wilson, President Woodrow 150 |
Worcester, battle of 68 |
York, Cardinal 115 |