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.