The French Girl and The English Poet
In November 1791 Wordsworth popped over to France to see the Revolution.
The SOE in The Loire Valley
In Valençay, about an hour away from Amboise, is a monument commemorating ninety-one men and thirteen women agents of F Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) who died, many in concentration camps, for working with the French Resistance.
Michel de Gast
Michel de Gast was Captain of the famous Forty-Five bodyguards of Henry III.
Madame de Staël v. Napoleon Bonaparte
Who now remembers the woman who took on Napoleon and rattled his cage?
Leave it to George
‘Leave it to George’ , a polite way of saying ‘pass the buck’, was once a popular saying in the UK and in America, however it originated in France.
The Last Valois King
It’s often hard to unscramble fact from fiction regarding the history of the French royal family. Not so in the case of the assassination of Henry III, the last Valois king.
Max Ernst and Surrealism
Max Ernst, the French Surrealist, died on his birthday, 1 April 1976. He loved the irony. It was, you might say, surreal.