French Scottish History
Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Scots have fought for France and indeed the Auld Alliance between our two countries is the oldest alliance in the world.

Got a story of a Scots ancestor?  Then do send it in for inclusion on these pages to Alastair McIntyre

• The Auld Alliance
• The Scot Abroad
  An account of Scots in France
• Speech delivered by General de Gaulle at Edinburgh, 23rd June 1942
• Aubigny in France
• The Auld Alliance
  I found this article in the library at the University of Guelph but only had 10 minutes left before they shut so quickly photographed it and made the pictures into a .pdf file. It shows connections with France from the 13th century.
• Highland Soldiers in France
  Taken from the Celtic Magazine
• Ancient Alliance between Scotland and France
  From the Celtic Magazine of 1885
• Papers relative to the Royal Guard of Scottish Archers in France
  From original documents (1835) (pdf file)
• The Scottish women's hospital at the French abbey of Royaumont
  By Antonio de Navarro (pdf)
• Les Ecossais en France, les Français en Écosse (1862) Volume 1 in the French language (pdf) From the Middle Ages to the reign of Henry II
• Les Ecossais en France, les Français en Écosse (1862) Volume 2 in the French language (pdf) From the death of Henry II to the end of the 18th century
  [For translation cost of this 2 volume set from French to English see QT5150 as we're looking to get this funded or help with getting it translated]
• The Scot in New France
  An Ethnological Study, by J.M. LeMoine 1881
• Recollections of Marshall Macdonald, Duke of Tarentum
  Edited by Camille Rousset, Translated by Stephen Louis Simeon (1893)
• The Scottish Tradition in Canada
  "The Auld Alliance" in New France by Henry B. M. Best
• Jacobite Officers in France
  From the Wars of Scotland
• Address delivered by Mr. Raymond Poincaré, President of the French Republic Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, 1914-1919 on November 13th 1919
• The Scots in France
  A review of books from the Edinburgh Review.
• The Scots in France
  This is a review of the 2 volume book about the Scots in France which is in the French language.
• A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
  By Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1927) (pdf)
• French Pictures
  Drawn with Pen and Pencil by The Rev. Samuel G. Green, D.D. (pdf)
• A History of France
  By André Maurois, Translated by Henry L. Binsse, Additional Chapters by Gerard Hopkins. It is in the spirit of telling a dramatic story, rather than of cautious scientific analysis, that M. Maurois has tackled his fascinating task and the result is, as it has already been hailed in France, the best modern one volume history of France. (1964) (pdf)
• A Critical Inquiry into the Scottish Language
  With the view of illustrating the Rise and Progress of Civilisation in
  Scotland by Francisque-Michel (1882)
• Protestant Exiles from France in the Reign of Louis XIV
  Or The Huguenot Refugees and their Descendants in Great Britain and Ireland by the Rev. David C. A. Agnew (Second edition) in three volumes (1871)
• The History of France
  As told to Juliette by Jean Duché. Translated by R. H. Stevens (pdf)
• North British Review
  M. Michel’s book is the history of the long alliance between France and Scotland,—an alliance originally formed against the growing power of a common enemy, and afterwards strengthened and confirmed by a community of interests, and by a grateful sense of mutual benefits. Taken from the August - November 1862 issue Vol. XXXVII
• Extract from the Despathces of W. Courcelles
  French Ambassador at the Court of Scotland 1586 - 1587 (1828) (pdf)
• The Scots Men-at-Arms and Life-Guards in France
  From Their Formation Until Their Final Dissolution, A.D. 1418 - 1830 by William Forbes-Leith in two volumes (1882)
• Scotland and the French Revolution
  By Henry W. Meikle, M.A., D.Litt., Lecturer in Scottish History in the University of Edinburgh (1912) (pdf)