France: a modern history from the Revolution to the war with terror

Part 1 Restoration and revolution 1815-1848: Restoration

Reaction and revolution

Citizen king

Sharpening the knife

Part 2 Republicanism and empire 1848-1870: The impossible dream

From prince president to emperor

The opportunistic empire

Reform and disaster

Part 3 The third republic 1870-1940: The bloody week

A good little republic

The men of the middle

From the affair to war

The troubled peace

Tout va très bien, madame la marquise

Part 4 Vichy, De Gaulle and the unloved republic 1940-1958: Two Frances

Liberation

Seeking a new course

The unloved republic

The end of a republic

Part 5 The fifth republic 1958-2015: New regime, new times

Decline and fall

The banker, the prince and the Florentine

Bulldozer, bling and normal

The weight of history.