On May 21st, 1420, the Treaty of Troyes assesses English victory during the Hundred Years' War. The Kingdom of France falls under the rule of English monarchs for twenty-five years. But how did it get there?

This is the untranslated version of the article « Comment Henri V est devenu roi de France » published in L'Histoire n° 471, march 2020.

In the heart of winter 1890, nearly three hundred Oglala Sioux were killed in Pine Ridge Indian Reserve, South Dakota. The event is known as the battle terminating Indian resistance. Actually, it was a bloodbath committed by American armed forces, against a few dozens unarmed people.

This is the untranslated version of the article « Wounded Knee, 1890. Chronique d'un massacre annoncé » published in L'Histoire n° 468, february 2020.

In 1870-71, the Franco-Prussian war left its mark all over Europe, far past the French lust for revenge, or powerful unified Germany. What is left of this mark in the European memories?

This is the untranslated version of the article « La guerre oubliée » published in L'Histoire n° 469, march 2020.

For the Chinese emperor, at first, the war went unnoticed. Only at the beginning of the 1920s did it become a founding date for China: the starting point of foreign imperialistic aggression, which the Republic would put an end to. And then, Mao.

This is the untranslated version of an interview with Julia Lovell published in L'Histoire n° 467, january 2020.

In the 19th century, under the Ottoman Empire, then extending on seamlessly to the Turkish Republic, nationalists erected Homer as an Anatolian. They claimed Anatolia was the cradle of civilisations, and proclaiming Homer as theirs quickly became a touristic stake.

This is the untranslated version of the article « Omer, le Turc » published Les collections de L'Histoire n° 82.

The English conquerred Ireland in a twofold movement: the first took place in the 12th-13th century, the second was achieved in the xvith. In the xviiith, Irish people are suppressed like never before, struggling to keep their Catholic faith, and Gaelic language.

This is the untranslated version of an interview with Seán Duffy published in L'Histoire n° 455, january 2019.

Weimar Republic is getting settled; and simultaneously, Bolshevik revolutionaries and far-right militias are throwing Germany into a spiral of violence. They spread their brutality as far as the Baltic lands, and Russia.

This is the untranslated version of the article « Allemagne : un nouvel âge de la violence » published in L'Histoire n° 449, july-augst 2018.

For a long time, Sparta has been seen as reverse Athens. But now, historians and archaelogists are blurring the lines: what they are discovering is that there were more shared features than points of differences with other Greek cities. In some respects, Sparta is even considered as the most refined of all.

This is the untranslated version of the article « Une cité pas comme les autres » published in L'Histoire n° 446, april 2018.

To renown British historian John Elliott, Catalan separatism is a recent phenomenon, and it does not rely on any historic legal basis.

This is the untranslated version of an interview with John Elliott published in Les Collections de l'Histoire n° 79, april-june 2018.