He attended Paris' Sorbonne University and later spent time in exile in the French capital.

VOA: special.2011.04.02

Mary would have seen important works by the most famous French artists of the time.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

It was written in the language of the people. The rulers of Britain at that time still spoke the Norman French they brought with them in ten sixty-six.

VOA: special.2011.01.12

She was nine years old at the time. She remembers her mother on her knees, begging French police to take her but to spare her children.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10