France France was a country in Europe , located on Earth . French was a language which originated in this country . Supposed Earthonomics expert Mr Copper mistakenly referred to the country as " Great France " of " Europey " along with " Great Germany " . The Tenth Doctor corrected him , clarifying that " only Britain [ was ] great . " ( TV : " Voyage of the Damned " ) The French time zone was an hour ahead of GMT . ( TV : " " ) History . 13th century . In 1242 , the Seventh Doctor and Bernice Summerfield visited France . ( PROSE : " Sanctuary " ) 14th century . In the late 14th century , Queen Isabella , the wife of King Richard II of England , was born in France . She returned to her native country after her husband ' s death in 1400 . ( AUDIO : " The Doctor ' s Tale " ) 16th century . In 1555 , France was at war with Spain . Francois de Noailles , Bishop of Dax and the brother of the French ambassador to England , secretly supported Reverend Thomas Smith ' s plot to remove Queen Mary I from power . He believed that having her half - sister Elizabeth on the English throne would mean England would ally with France instead of Spain . ( AUDIO : " The Marian Conspiracy " ) In August 1572 , the First Doctor and Steven Taylor visited Paris and were present for the St Bartholomew ' s Day massacre . ( TV : " The Massacre " ) 17th century . In 1626 , the Fifth Doctor , Peri Brown and Erimem visited France . At that time , George Villiers , Duke of Buckingham smuggled an English army into the country to take Paris . ( AUDIO : " The Church and the Crown " ) In November 1688 , the deposed King James II of England , his wife Mary of Modena and their son James Stuart went into exile in France . ( AUDIO : " The Glorious Revolution " ) 18th century . In the 18th century , Jeanne - Antoinette Poisson , better known as Madame de Pompadour , lived in France and was a lover of King Louis XV . She died in Versailles after receiving several visits from the Tenth Doctor . The Doctor described France to Mickey Smith as " a different planet " , referring to the different attitudes of its people from those of Great Britain . ( TV : " The Girl in the Fireplace " ) Even more shocking , from Rose Tyler ' s perspective , Madame de Pompadour ( who was the King ' s lover ) got along with the Queen . In 1746 , the Second Doctor suggested the country as a destination for some Scottish refugees , during the Jacobite rebellion . ( TV : " The Highlanders " ) The Tenth Doctor attempted to take Donna Noble to Blackpool but they instead arrived in the French Riviera in the 1780s . ( AUDIO : " Death and the Queen " ) In July 1794 , the First Doctor , Susan Foreman , Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright visited France during the French Revolution . ( TV : " The Reign of Terror " ) 19th century . In 1804 , the First Doctor and Dodo Chaplet visited France in an alternate timeline . ( PROSE : " The Man in the Velvet Mask " ) Prior to the 1860s , France fought with the British against the Chinese Empire in the Opium Wars . ( PROSE : " The Eleventh Tiger " ) In 1871 , the Seventh Doctor , Ace and Bernice Summerfield visited France . ( PROSE : " Set Piece " ) In 1879 , Rose - the - Cat piloted the TARDIS to Paris , where she found a mouse . ( COMIC : " A Rose by Any Other Name " ) In 1884 , the Seventh Doctor , Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester visited France . ( PROSE : " The Death of Art " ) In 1890 , the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond visited Auvers - sur - Oise . ( TV : " Vincent and the Doctor " ) 20th century . In 1919 , a peace conference was held after World War I in Versailles . ( PROSE : " Illegal Alien " ) The Treaty of Versailles established the post - war settlement . ( PROSE : " Just War " , " Players " , AUDIO : " The Wanderer " , " The Alchemists " ) In 1937 , the Eighth Doctor , Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor visited France . ( PROSE : " History 101 " ) During both his second and eight incarnations , the Doctor visited France during the Nazi occupation of the 1940s . ( AUDIO : " Resistance " , " The Scapegoat " ) The south of France , location of the Vichy regime , was occupied in 1943 , leading members of the French Resistance , Allied forces and sympathisers and civilians to attempt to cross the Pyrenees into neutral Spain . ( AUDIO : " Resistance " ) In 1944 , France was liberated from Nazi occupation after the Normandy landings on 6 June . ( PROSE : " The Taint " ; AUDIO : " State of Emergency " ) Following the liberation , the first thing that the Free French Army did was create a memorial to Joan of Arc . ( AUDIO : " State of Emergency " ) The French franc was the currency of France for most of the 20th century . ( PROSE : " History 101 " ) The first case outside England of the Silurian virus from Wenley Moor was reported in Paris . Thankfully , it was at that time the Third Doctor developed an antidote for the virus , which was soon used to stop the pandemic . ( TV : " Doctor Who and the Silurians " ) In 1979 , the Fourth Doctor and Romana II visited Paris . ( TV : " City of Death " ) 21st century . In 2007 , when Cybermen from Pete ' s World invaded the main universe , appearing all over Earth , an army of Cybermen appeared in Paris . ( TV : " Army of Ghosts " ) At 8 : 40AM GMT / 9 : 40 AM French time on a Wednesday in September 2009 , fifteen RTA s were noted by Torchwood Three to have occurred in France as a result of the 456 compelling every human child across Earth to suddenly stop and proclaim their message : " we are coming . " ( TV : " " ) In 2011 , Night Dragon Haulage regularly shipped goods to France . ( TV : " The Curse of Clyde Langer " ) By 2050 , France appeared to be under the jurisdiction of the Department , which was secretly led by a Korven from the far future known as Lomax . The Department operated the Mortainian mines , presumably located in Mortain , France . ( TV : " Lost Library of Ukko " ) After the Myloki conflict of 2066 - 2068 , France collapsed into civil war . ( PROSE : " The Indestructible Man " ) Undated events . Following the defeat of Harold Godwinson in the Battle of Hastings in 1066 , the Monk claimed that claims over France went on for " years and years " , and that if Harold remained king with the help of the Monk ' s meddling with time , there would be peace . ( TV : " Checkmate " ) In parallel worlds . In a a parallel world , France closed its borders to refugee s forced to vacate southern England after a replica of the " Titanic " crashed into London . ( TV : " Turn Left " )