Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory?
Non!<\/b><\/i> William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French.<\/p>\n
Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc?
Non!<\/b><\/i> The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.<\/p>\n
Was the guillotine a French invention?
Non!<\/b><\/i> It was invented in Yorkshire.<\/p>\n
Ten centuries’ worth of French historical ‘facts’ bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really <\/i>been going on since 1066 …<\/p>\n
From the Norman (not French) Conquest, to XXX, it is a light-hearted – but impeccably researched – account of all out great-fallings out.<\/p>\n
In short, the French are quite right to suspect that the last 1,000 years have been one long British campaign to infuriate them. And it’s not over yet…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The English Channel may be only 20 miles wide, but it’s 1,000 years deep. Stephen Clarke takes a penetrating look into those murky depths, guiding us through all the times when Britain and France have been at war – or at least glowering at each other across the English Channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[75],"product_tag":[290],"class_list":["post-96674","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-history","product_tag-history","pa_book_author-clarke-stephen","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-327-41044-edition23","pa_edition-new-revised-updated-and-expanded-edition","pa_imprint-black-swan","pa_language-english","pa_pages-14772","pa_publisher-black-swan","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n