Gaulle, Charles de, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; admires British culture, 1;
and Americans, 1, 2, 3, 4;
and the épuration, 1;
on equality, 1;
and the media, 1, 2;
and Mers-el-Kebir, 1;
on money, 1;
and NATO, 1;
nuclear policy, 1, 2;
personality, 1;
Rambouillet meeting, 1;
and student uprisings, 1;
‘wiping the slate clean’, 1
Gaullists, 1
Gendarmerie, gendarmes, 1, 2, 3, 4
Genestar, Alain, 1
Gensoul, Admiral, 1
Gerlier, Cardinal, 1
Gestapo, 1, 2, 3, 4
Ghadafi, Muammar, 1
GIA (Islamic Armed Group), 1, 2, 3, 4
Gide, André, 1, 2, 3
Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry, 1, 2, 3
Godard, Jean-Luc, 1
Gréco, Juliette, 1
Green, Julian, 1, 2
Greene, Graham, 1
guilt, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; post-feminist, 1
Hachichi, Wahid, 1
Haine, La (Hate) (film), 1, 2
Hansen, Alan, 1
health system, 1, 2, 3, 4
Hemingway, Ernest, 1
Henri IV de Navarre, King of France, 1
Herri Batasuna, 1
hidjab issue, 1, 2, 3
Hill, Benny, 1
Hill, Dennis, 1n
Hiroshima, 1
Hitler, Adolf, 1, 2, 3
Hollande, François: attitude to rich, 1; Economist critique of, 1;
introduces flexible labour laws, 1;
and healthcare, 1;
tax on wealthy, 1
Holocaust (Shoah), 1, 2, 3, 4
Holy Loch, Scotland, 1, 2
Hortefeux, Brice, 1
house-buying, rural, 1
Hugo, Victor, 1
Huguenots, 1, 2
Hussein, Saddam, 1, 2n
IAM, 1
ideas: in countryside, 1; French addiction to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
mistrust of, 1, 2;
in the Second World War, 1, 2;
and television, 1, 2;
vs. reality, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
ideology: death of, 1, 2;
socialist, 1
immigrants, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; in Britain, 1
inquisitorial system, 1
INSERM, 1
Iran, 1, 2, 3
Iraq War (2003–11; 2nd Gulf War), 1, 2, 3
Ireland, 1
Irigaray, Luce, 1
Islamic Salvation Army (AIS), 1
Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), 1, 2, 3
Islamists, 1, 2, 3
Islamophobia, 1
Israel, 1
Israeli Army, 1
Izieu orphanage, 1
Izzard, Eddie, 1
Jacquot, Benoît, 1
James, Oliver, 1n
Jaruzelski, General Wojciech, 1
Jesuits, 1, 2
Jews, 1, 2; and the Barbie trial, 1;
and the Cévenols, 1;
and the Christian community, 1;
deportation of, 1, 2, 3;
hidden in Cévennes, 1;
les Juifs Tun, 1;
French, survive Shoah, 1;
the Vel d’Hiv raid, 1;
and Vichy, 1, 2;
see also anti-Semitism; Holocaust Joan of Arc, 1, 2, 3
Johnson, Boris, 1
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric and Irene, 1
Jospin, Lionel, 1
Joyce, James, 1
Jung, Carl, 1
Juppé, Prime Minister Alain, 1, 2
Kabyles (Berbers), 1, 2, 3
Kahn, Jean-François, 1
Kassovitz, Mathieu, 1
Katkov, Arkadi, 1n
Kelkal, Khaled, 1
Kennedy, John F., 1, 2, 3, 4
Kissinger, Henry, 1
Klarsfeld, Serge, 1, 2
Kluiters, Nicolas, 1n
Knochen, Helmut, 1n
Kristeva, Julia, 1
Lahaie, Brigitte, 1
Lang, Jack, 1
Laval, Prime Minister Pierre, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Le Pen, Jean-Marie, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Le Pen, Marine, 1, 2
Lebanon, 1
Legendre, Claire, 1
Léger, Fernand, 1
Lévy, Bernard-Henri, 1, 2
Libya, 1
Lithuania, 1
Locke, John, 1
London: the Blitz, 1; bomb attacks (2005), 1;
number of French in, 1
Louis XIV, King of France, 1, 2, 3, 4
Loyola, St Ignatius de, 1
Lyon, 1, 2
Macmillan, Harold (later Earl of Stockton), 1, 2, 3
McNamara, Robert, 1
Madmen (TV series), 1
Maginot Line, 1, 2
Maison Blanche Metro station, Paris: bombing (1995), 1
Malraux, André, 1
Mandela, Nelson, 1
Mandelson, Peter, 1n
Mao Zedong, 1
Maoists, 1
Marchais, Georges, 1
Marseille, 1, 2
Marxism, 1, 2, 3
Materazzi, Marco, 1, 2, 3
Matisse, Henri, 1
Mauriac, François, 1
Maurin, General, 1
May ’68 student riots, 1, 2, 3
Mayle, Peter, 1
mayors, 1
Mélanchon, Jean-Luc, 1
Menon, Sri, 1
Mépris, Le (Contempt) (film), 1
meritocracy, 1, 2
Mers-el-Kebir: destruction of French
fleet (1940), 1, 2
MI5, 1
MI6 (La Six), 1, 2, 3
Michelet, Jules, 1
Milice, 1, 2, 3, 4
Milieu, Le (mafia), 1
Miller, Jacques-Alain, 1
Millet, Catherine, 1, 2
Ministry for Towns, 1
Ministry of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Development in Solidarity, 1
Minkowski, Professor, 1, 2, 3
Mitterrand, Danielle, 1, 2, 3
Mitterrand, François, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; and Algeria, 1;
and Bruguière, 1;
and his daughter Mazarine, 1, 2, 3;
double life, 1, 2, 3;
invites the communists into his cabinet, 1;
and mayors, 1;
and the media, 1;
and his mistress, 1, 2;
nationalisations, 1;
numerous infidelities, 1, 2;
and the PCF, 1, 2;
and socialism, 1;
the suburbs, 1, 2;
and Vichy, 1
Mitterrand, Gilbert, 1
Mitterrand, Jean-Christophe, 1
Montebourg, Arnaud, 1
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de, 1
Montluc prison, Lyon, 1
Moody’s, 1
Moore, Marianne, 1
Mossad, 1
Moulin, Jean, 1, 2
‘Mr Bean’ (Rowan Atkinson), 1
MRP (Mouvement Républicain Populaire), 1
Mujahideen, 1n
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 1
music, 1, 2, 3
Muslim minorities, 1, 2, 3
Napoleon Bonaparte, 1, 2, 3, 4; death of, 1;
and education, 1;
excels at Maths, 1;
and ideas, 1;
and inheritance rights, 1n;
judgement of England, 1;
personality, 1;
as a sex dwarf, 1
Napoleonic Marital Code, 1n
Nassau Agreement (1962), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
National Assembly, 1, 2
National Front, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
National Revolution, 1
NATO, 1, 2
Nazi Occupation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; barbarity of, 1;
in Cévennes, 1;
Paris under the Nazis, 1, 2, 3
Neuilly, 1
Ni Putes Ni Soumises (Neither Whores Nor Victims), 1
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1
nobility, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
norm, the, 1, 2, 3, 4
Norstad, General Lauris, 1
nuclear policy, 1
OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), 1
‘Operation Chrysanthemum’, 1
Ophüls, Marcel, 1, 2, 3
Ouguenoune, Hocine, 1n
Oussekine, Malik, 1
paediatricians, 1
Palais des Congrès, Paris, 1
Palais du Louvre, Paris, 1
Palestinians, 1
Papon, Maurice, 1
Paris: bombings (1990s), 1, 2, 3, 4; comparison with Cévennes, 1, 2;
in the congé payé, 1;
driving in, 1;
‘gay Paree’, 1;
hospital service, 1;
hostility and mistrust, 1;
and image of countryside, 1;
mass demonstrations, 1, 2;
Nazi Occupation, 1;
parks, 1;
Peace Conference (1919), 1;
rudeness, 1
Paris Opera, 1
Pasqua, Charles, 1
patriarchy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
PCF (Parti Communiste Français), 1, 2, 3
Pearson, Allison, 1
Peet, John, 1
Pelchat amendment, 1n
Peretti, Professor Charles, 1
Perrault, Charles, 1
Peshawar military training camp, northern Pakistan, 1
Pétain, Maréchal Philippe, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Pétainists, 1
Peugeot, 1
Peyrefitte, Alain, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Peyrolles, Gilles Sydney, 1
physiotherapists (kinésithérapeutes), 1, 2
Piano, Renzo, 1
Picasso, Pablo, 1
Pingeot, Anne, 1, 2, 3
Pingeot-Mitterrand, Mazarine, 1, 2, 3
Pinhas, Richard, 1
plastic surgery, 1
pleasure, pursuit of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
PMU (Pari Mutuel Urbain), 1
Poland, 1n, 2
Polaris missiles, 1, 2, 3
police, 1, 2; Police Nationale, 1, 2
politicians, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Pompidou, Georges, 1, 2, 3, 4
Pompidou Centre, Paris, 1
Popular Front, 1
Popular Tribunals, 1
Port-Royal RER station, Paris: bombing (1996), 1
Porzemparc, Christian de, 1
Préfecture de Police, Paris, 1
pregnancy and childbirth, 1
press, the: Catholic values, 1; and the jardin secret, 1;
and sex, 1, 2
Protestants/puritans: and Anglo-Saxon society, 1; approach to faith, 1;
Catholic We vs. Protestant I, 1, 2, 3;
a culture based on confidence, 1;
and feminism, 1;
French vs. Protestant characteristics, 1;
guilt, 1, 2, 3;
the joy of participating in sport, 1;
and Marxism, 1;
mistrust for the cult of appearances, 1;
personal experience, 1;
relationship with the deity, 1;
and transparency, 1, 2;
vision of sex as dirty, 1;
work ethic, 1
Proust, Marcel, 1
Provence, 1
psychoanalysis, 1, 2, 3, 4
Puyméras, Vaucluse, 1, 2, 3
racism, racists, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
radio, French, 1, 2
RAF (Royal Air Force), 1
Rainbow Warrior fiasco, 1
Rake, Denis, 1
Rambouillet meeting (1962), 1
Ramda, Rachid (Abou Farès), 1, 2
Ravensbrück concentration camp, 1
Reagan, Ronald, 1
reality, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; vs. ideas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
régimes spéciaux, 1
religion: intolerance towards, 1; see also Catholicism; Jews; Protestants/puritans
Rémond, Réné, 1
Renseignements Généraux (RG), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
republican dream, 1, 2, 3
Revenu de solidarité active (RSA), 1
Rhys, Jean, 1
riots, 1, 2
Rocard, Michel, 1, 2
Rogers, Richard, 1
Röthke, Heinz, 1n
Royal, Ségolène, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
RTF (National Radio and Television), 1
rudeness, 1
rugby, 1
Saint Antoine et Tenon hospital, Paris, 1
Saint-Denis University, Paris (‘Paris 8’), 1
Saint-Michel underground station, Paris: bombing (1995), 1
Salic Law, 1
Saliège, Cardinal, 1
Sarajevo, 1
Sarkozy, Cécilia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sarkozy, Nicolas, 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; and 2008
economic crisis, 1;
and Amara, 1, 2, 3;
autobiography, 1;
bans burqa, 1;
and celebrity culture, 1, 2;
divorce, 1;
and DSK affair, 1;
fondness for the police, 1;
and healthcare, 1;
and ideology, 1, 2;
jardin secret, 1;
Jewish heritage, 1, 2;
and Le Pen, 1;
and the media, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
presidential campaign, 1;
reforms, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
and Royal, 1, 2, 3;
a self-made man, 1;
as a sex dwarf, 1, 2;
and Squarcini, 1;
symbolized by Rolex, 1, 2;
and unemployment, 1;
and the unions, 1, 2;
unpopularity of, 1, 2, 3;
on the value of work, 1
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1, 2
School of Political Science (Sciences Po), Paris, 1, 2
Second World War, 1, 2; Barbie trial (1987), 1;
France’s swift and total defeat (1940), 1;
French armistice, 1, 2;
Hiroshima, 1;
Maginot Line, 1;
Mers-el-Kebir, 1, 2;
privation, 1;
Vel d’Hiv raid (1942), 1;
see also Nazi Occupation
Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), 1
Septième Ciel, Le (film), 1
Serbia, 1
sex: adultery, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; in advertising, 1;
DSK affair, 1;
erotic timorousness of English boys, 1;
jardin secret (secret garden), 1, 2, 3, 4;
libido, 1, 2, 3;
and love, 1;
multiple partners, 1;
and politicians, 1, 2, 3;
and power, 1;
and the press, 1, 2, 3;
Protestant vision of sex as dirty, 1;
the pursuit of pleasure, 1, 2, 3, 4;
seduction, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
sexual harassment and the law, 1;
sexual liberation, 1;
swingers’ clubs, 1, 2;
women as mysterious and fascinating creatures, 1
sex dwarves, 1, 2, 3
sexism, 1, 2
Shearer, Alan, 1, 2
Simeone, Diego, 1
Sinclair, Anne, 1, 2
Skybolt, 1, 2, 3
SM (Algerian intelligence service), 1
social welfare, 1, 2, 3
socialism, 1, 2, 3
Socialist Party, 1, 2
Société Psychoanalytique de Paris (SPP), 1, 2, 3
Socrates, 1
soixante-huitards, les (sixty-eighters), 1, 2
SOL (Service d’Ordre Lègionnaire), 1
Solaar, MC, 1, 2
solidarité (solidarity), 1, 2, 3
Solidarity movement, 1
Somerville, Admiral, 1
Sorbonne, Paris, 1, 2, 3
Spinoza, Baruch, 1
Squarcini, Bernard, 1
SS, 1
Stalin, Joseph, 1
Standard & Poor’s, 1
State, the: dominates and pampers the individual, 1; and healthcare, 1;
and the ideal of freedom, 1;
powerful and interventionist, 1;
and radio, 1;
separation of Church and State (2005), 1
status, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Stein, Gertrude, 1
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1
Stourton, Edward, 1
Strauss-Kahn, Dominique, 1
strikes, 1, 2, 3, 4
Suez crisis (1956), 1
suicide, 1
SWAT, 1
Sweeney, John, 1n
swingers’ clubs (clubs échangistes), 1, 2
taxation, 1
television, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Territorial Army, 1
terroir, 1
TF1, 1
TGV line bomb (1995), 1
Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness, 1, 2, 3
Thiel, Gilbert, 1
Thuram, Lilian, 1
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1, 2
Touchent, Ali, 1
Touvier, Paul, 1
Toxteth riots, 1
trade unions, 1
tragic, the, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
transparency, 1, 2, 3, 4
Trappist monks of Tiberine, murder of (1996), 1, 2
Tripoli, 1, 2
Tunisia, 1, 2
Tzara, Tristan, 1
unemployment, 1, 2, 3
United Nations (UN), 1
United States: ‘Atoms for Peace’ programme, 1; Camp David meet ing (1960), 1;
capitalism, 1;
Iraq War, 1, 2;
Nassau Agree ment, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Paris Peace Conference (1919), 1;
relationship with Britain, 1, 2;
Second World War, 1;
secret ser vice, 1;
Treaty of Versailles, 1;
World Trade Center attacks (2001), 1;
see also anti-Americanism
UTA airline DC-10 bombing (1989), 1
Vaulx-en-Velin, 1, 2; riots (1990), 1, 2
Vedrine, Hubert, 1
Vel d’Hiv raid (1942), 1
Vergès, Jacques, 1, 2
verlan (a form of French slang), 1
Vernet, Daniel, 1n
Versailles, Treaty of (1919), 1, 2
Versailles experiment, 1