“... fate. Finally, there were some barbed Picasso etchings from the series The Dream and Lie of Franco (Guernica was first shown earlier that year); and some roughhouse banter from Macdonald about the passionless ease of the old New Yorker: ‘Its editors would have considered Mark Twain too crude and Heine too highbrow for their purposes … Its ...”

“... Fortune magazine in 1944, where he laid out his ideas for a newly integrated Europe after the war, Jean Monnet addressed what he called the biggest question of all: ‘Could England be brought in? For without England … the concept of a unified Europe turns all too quickly into a Germanised Europe all over again.’ But knowing that Britain was wanted as a ...”

“... had a legacy. He did not suggest that any of his own paintings were included in the bequest – Jean Renoir remembered him saying that his only wish for himself was that one day he might be ‘displayed in the antechamber of the room where the Renoirs and Cézannes are hung’ – and only two of his works, The Floor Scrapers and the innocuous View of Roofs ...”

“... eight o’clock on 21 April, a mortified France and a stupefied world registered the cataclysm: Jean-Marie Le Pen had overtaken Lionel Jospin.’ Everywhere hands were wrung in shame. The media were flooded with editorials, articles, broadcasts, appeals explaining to the French that they faced the brown peril and must now rally as one to Chirac, if the ...”

“... Algerian nationalists during the independence struggle. A separate French protest was signed by Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Aragon.The king and his advisers took the view that Morocco must forge its own post-independence path. Why should left-leaning states in the Third World and ex-colonial powers, harping on the rights they had denied in the past, tell ...”

“... At the age​ of fifteen, Chantal Akerman sneaked into a screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou. She was in the habit of skipping school with her friends and the cinema was one of their preferred hangout spots. But until that moment, Akerman had thought of it as a place for flirting and kissing, which were ‘the same thing as dancing ...”

“... between Adenauer and Mollet.A long second phase, lasting from 1958 to 1989, began with the Franco-German deal exchanging the agricultural subsidies Paris wanted for the competition policies patronised by Bonn; after repeated setbacks, it saw eventual British entry into the Community, once France realised that the UK could be a counterweight to the ...”

“... support Brexit, which is going to hit British universities badly. I am the father of a 13-year-old Franco-Portuguese daughter who was born in London and is quintessentially ‘European’. Despite all this, I was not enthused by the Remain message. I am of the view that the EU has shown no interest in fostering solidarity and greater equality. It may be good ...”

“... General Alberto Bayo, a Spanish career officer who had fought against the Moroccans and against Franco during the Thirties. Exiled to Mexico at the end of the Spanish Civil War, he had begun a new life, training youthful Caribbean revolutionaries. When Fidel (whose own father came to Cuba during an earlier Spanish emigration) was casting around for a ...”

“... football (la furia roja) by a progressive foreign philosophy were sporting manifestations of post-Franco Spain opening up to the world. Vicente del Bosque, who managed Spain in 2010, was a former trade union organiser whose father had spent three years in prison during the Civil War for storing pro-democracy leaflets. As Wilson adds, ‘it’s no coincidence ...”