The foundations of French nationality: land, race, language
The dawn: prehistory and protohistory
The dark ages: the chutch and the Franks
The church and medieval France: 987-1270
Lay society in the middle ages: nobles, peasants, bourgeois
The rise of the capetians: 987-1270
The lost centuries: 1270-1380
The lost centuries: 1380-1483
The renaissance and the Italian wars
The reformation and the religious wars
The foundation of classical order: Henry IV, Richelieu, Mazarin
The grand monarch: personal reign of Louis XIV, 1661-1715
Louis XV: the absentee king and the enlightenment
The bourgeois-liberal revolution: 1750-1848
The revolution: 1788-1792
Marital interlude:1792-1815: The revolution: legislative assembly, convention, directory
Marital interlude: 1792-1815: Napoleon Bonaparte, general, consul, emperor
The constitutional monarchy: 1814-1848
The second republic and the second empire: 1848-1870
The "terrible year" and its aftermath: 1870-1880
The third republic: opportunism, 1880-1900
The third republic: radicalism and world war I, 1900-1918
The anxious truce: 1918-1939: recovery, 1918-1929
The anxious truce: 1918-1939: the darkening sky, 1929-1939
World war II and its aftermath
The fourth republic in the perspective of a thousand years
1959 and the dawn of the fifth republic.
