TOUR DE FRANCE
"French Passion For Cycling," BBC News (July 6, 2003).
HISTORY IN THE NEWS: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FRENCH PAST
SYMBOLS
MARSEILLAISE
"Jazzing Up the Marseillaise," BBC News (February 8, 2002).
Charles Bremner, "French Face Jail For Insulting the Flag," Times of London (February 15, 2003).
"French MPs Pass Tough Anti Crime Laws," BBC News (February 13, 2003).
"Chirac Furious As Fans Boo Anthem," BBC News (May 11, 2002).
Jonathan Glancey, "All Together Now," Guardian Unlimited (February 10, 2000).
Roy Hattersley, "Blood, Song, and Tears," Guardian Unlimited (February 15, 1999).
K. Fedarko and B. Crumley, "Meddling With the Marseillaise," Time, 139 (March 1992): 42.
"Le Jour De Gloire Est Reparti," Economist, 322 (March 14, 1992).
Sandi E. Cooper, "La Marseillaise," Cineaste, 17 (1990).
BASTILLE DAY
"German General To Lead Bastille Parade," Australian (July 15, 2003).
Clifford Kraus, "More French Than France; Tiny Outpost Off Canada Guards Its Heritage," International Herald Tribune (July 15, 2003).
"Briefing: Bastille Day," Glasgow Herald (July 14, 2001).
Eduardo Cue, "No Hot Dogs Here; It's Brie, Terrine, and Tarte Tatin," Christian Science Monitor (July 14, 2000).
"Picture This: Bastille Day," BBC News (July 14, 1999).
MARIANNE AND THE MOTTO OF THE REPUBLIC
"Marianne Challenges French Elite," BBC News (November 2, 2003).
Elaine Sciolino, "France's True Face Revealed At Last," The Age (August 2, 2003).
"France Unmoved By Casta's Career Move," BBC News (January 2, 2002).
Hugh Schofield, "Gallic Rage As the Symbol of France Turns Out To Be A London Resident," Independent (April 4, 2000).
"France Galled By Model Move," BBC News (April 3, 2000).
"Marianne Unfaithful To Everyone At Some Time, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity Yes. Fidelity, No Says Jessica Hart, Looking At A Nation Which Has Never Grown Up," Birmingham Post (October 28, 1999).
Peter Ford, "Ms. Liberte To Get Le Facelift," Christian Science Monitor (September 14, 1999).
"France To Pick Millennium Woman," BBC News (September 9, 1999).
TOUR DE FRANCE
"French Passion For Cycling," BBC News (July 6, 2003).
MONUMENTS AND SITES
PANTHEON
"Row Mars Berlioz Anniversary," BBC News (February 16, 2003).
"Musketeers Carry Dumas To Pantheon," BBC News (November 30, 2002).
"Dumas Takes His Place Among Greats," BBC News (November 30, 2002).
Charles Bremner, "Dumas Joins Ranks of Politically Approved Literati," London Times (November 30, 2002).
"France Celebrates Hugo's Birthday," BBC News (February 26, 2002).
"French Honour Author of Famous French Article," BBC News (January 14, 1998).
"Malraux Joins France's Pantheon of 'Great Men,'" Christian Science Monitor (November 25, 1996).
Alan Clinton, "The Resistance In the Pantheon," History Today, 43 (June 1993).
Robert Kunzig, "Tower and Glory: Engineering Mastery Spawned A New Kind of Beauty In Eiffel's Creation," US News and World Report (June 30, 2003).
"Are Things Looking Up For the Eiffel Tower," BBC News (May 16, 2003).
Paris Sweet Home, "History and Documentation of the Eiffel Tower."
Jean-Pierre Navailles, "Eiffel's Tower," History Today, 39 (December 1989).
Philip Delves Broughton, "Facelift For Crumbling Arc Starts In Paris," Daily Telegraph (November 12, 2003).
Jon Henley, "Facelift To Put Shine Back On Sun King's Folly: 20 Years Will Be Spent Restoring Versailles To Its Former Glory," Guardian (November 1, 2003).
Elaine Ganley, "Face-Lift Ahead For Versailles' Famed Hall," Seattle Times (January 28, 2003).
VERDUN
Patrick Bishop, "Life Returns To Verdun Killing Fields 85 Years On," Daily Telegraph (September 8, 2001).
Deborah Seward, "A German Good Neighbor? -- Some Argue That Hostilities Are In the Past, But Memories Of War Remain," Seattle Times (November 9, 1999).
Gary A Warner, "The Devil's Garden: The Slaughter At Verdun In WWI Echoes Across the Century," Knight Ridder/ Tribune News Service (November 30, 1998).
"Verdun: Symbol of Suffering," BBC News (November 5, 1998).
HEROES AND VILLAINS
"Le Pen's Heroine St. Joan," BBC News (May 1, 2002).
Askold Krushelnycky, "At Stake: The Reputation of A French Heroine, After Expert Dismisses Joan of Arc's Story As A Royal Fable," Independent (December 23, 2003).
Ian Johns, "Burning Ambition," Times of London (July 17, 2003).
Ollie Reed, Jr., "Devoted To Joan of Arc," Albuquerque Tribune (December 4, 1999).
"Marie Antoinette, "Enemy Of the People," Sunday Telegraph (May 27, 2001).
Douglas Johnson, "Obituary: Making Robespierre A Revolutionary Hero -- Marc Bouloiseau," Guardian (June 9, 1999).
Ben Fogle, "An Island Castaway In the Atlantic," Times of London (August 23, 2003).
Elaine Sciolino, "Napoleon's His Name and He Has Conquest in Mind," New York Times (July 25, 2003).
Adam Sage, "A Romantic Driven By the Memory of Napoleon; Iraq Crisis," Times of London (February 18, 2003).
Bruce Johnston, "Napoleon Faces Trial 200 Years After the Capture of Venice," Daily Telegraph (January 10, 2003).
"French Wrestle With DeGaulle's Legacy," BBC News (April 15, 2002).
"France Honours de Gaulle," BBC News (June 18, 2000).
"Maurice Papon: Haunted By the Past," BBC News (September 18, 2002).
"France Frees Nazi Collaborator," BBC News (September 18, 2002).
"Paris Storm Over Mitterrand Street," BBC News (June 17, 2003).
REVOLUTION
Jo Wiltshire, "Model Citizen; Madame Tussaud's Waxworks Are Familiar To Millions of People, But Who Was She?" Mail On Sunday (January 13, 2002).
Eric Black, "The Ancestry of Terrorism, From Robespierre To Osama Bin Laden, Terror Has Worn Many Faces," Minneapolis Star Tribune (September 30, 2001).
Jon Henley, "Drunk Revolutionaries?: Pas Du Tout -- Eric Rohmer Gets It In the Neck For Filming A Scottish Aristo's View of the French Terror," Guardian (September 13, 2001).
Stephen Moss, "Your Story Is Bunk, My History Is Right," Guardian (June 29, 1999).
R.L. Day, "French Lousy At Revolution," Knight Ridder/ Tribune News Services (December 31, 1998).
WAR AND EMPIRE
Stuart Jeffries, "Napoleonic Wars," Guardian Unlimited (October 16, 2003).
Ian Traynor, "Frozen Victims Of 1812 Get Final Burial," Guardian (June 2, 2003).
"Napoleonic Soldiers Laid To Rest," BBC News (November 3, 1999).
Jack Gee, "Merde! You Brits Hid Boney's Body; French Historian Claims the Emperor's Corpse Was Secretly Switched," Express On Sunday (November 3, 2002).
"Revenge Movement In France; On This Day," Times Of London (April 8, 2003).
Jon Henley, "100 Years Old . . . But Still Brand Nouveau: It Was Just A Humble Town On the French Border, But For Two Decades It Was Transformed Into An Artistic Utopia," Observer (April 25, 1999).
"Paris Misses 1914-18 Veterans; Armistice Day," Times of London (November 12, 1999)
Jon Henley, "Tributes Paid To 2 Million War Dead," Guardian (November 12, 1998).
"France Marks The End Of World War I," BBC News (November 10, 1998).
"Remembering the Sacrifice," BBC News (November 11, 1998).
"WW II Remains Exhumed In France," BBC News (November 4, 2003).
"French Resistance Hero Dies At 94," BBC News (September 9, 2002).
"France Counts Cost of Nazi Era," BBC News (April 17, 2000).
"Le Pen Barred From Laying Wreath At Resistance Memorial," BBC News (November 29, 1997).
"France Plays Homage To Algeria Dead," BBC News (December 5, 2002).
"France Plans Algeria Memorial," BBC News (February 7, 2001).
"France Confronts Algeria Torture Claims," BBC News (January 9, 2001).
CHURCH AND STATE
"The Deep Roots of French Secularism," BBC News (December 18, 2003).
"Chirac On the Secular Society," BBC News (December 18, 2003).
MINORITIES
"Headscarf Row Hides Deeper Issues," BBC News (December 11, 2003).
"Paris Remembers Lost Jews," BBC News (July 19, 2002).
"France's Algerians: Divided Loyalty," BBC News (July 5, 2002).
THE FRENCH PAST AND OTHER NATIONS
"British 'Cleared' Of Napoleon's Murder," BBC News (October 29, 2002).
"Waterloo Insult To French Visitors," BBC News (November 6, 1998).
"Dunkirk Spirit Gets Lost In Translation," BBC News (June 2, 2000).
"Plus Ca Change In Franco-U.S. Ties," BBC News (July 22, 2003).
"U.S. Congress Opts For 'Freedom Fries,'" BBC News (March 12, 2003).
"Anti Americanism," BBC News (October 28, 2002).
"Euro-Allies Mark 40 Years of Friendship," BBC News (January 22, 2003).
"Franco-German Revival Called For," BBC News (January 22, 2003).
MISCELLANEOUS
"Is France Really In Terminal Decline?" BBC News (November 10, 2003).
"How Ronald Got Le Boot," BBC News (January 22, 2002).
"McDonald's Takes On Asterix," BBC News (December 20, 2001).
