From the 4th to the 10th century, Europe was shaped by four major demographic upheavals.
Germans, Slavs, Arabs and Vikings succeeded one another and settled in the kingdoms born from the rubble of the Roman Empire.
Le Figaro Histoire
returns in a special report on these spectacular convulsions.
The best specialists trace their main episodes through ten great battles, bring their protagonists back to life, from the Visigoth king Alaric to Saint Stephen of Hungary, from Charles Martel to the Viking leader Rollo, and decipher their political and cultural consequences, from the destruction of a half a millennium of Roman imperialism to the Slavization of central and eastern Europe.
As a third year of war begins between Russia and Ukraine, Thierry de Montbrial highlights the transformation of the international system at work through this conflict and the contradictions of a Europe challenged by realism.
On the reporting side,
Le Figaro Histoire
takes you in the footsteps of Philippe Auguste, through the remains of the enclosure with which the king endowed Paris 800 years ago, and tells you the sometimes thousand-year-old story of unusual witnesses: the “trees remarkable”, studied and protected by the ARBRES association, which is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this year.