| 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 |