Historical clue formulations

• Land of Napoleon — 2025-03-03
• Country described in "One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese" — 2023-09-22
• 2018 World Cup champs — 2018-08-05
• New Caledonia is a territory of it — 2016-09-14
• Champagne's place — 2016-06-01
• Site of 27-Across/32-Down's ambassadorship — 2014-03-04
• Essential part of a grand tour — 2010-06-03
• 2006 World Cup runner-up — 2007-04-27
• Homme's home — 2001-05-20
• Médoc wine source — 2000-04-11
• U.S. ally in the American Revolution — 1997-09-11
• See 37-Across — 1997-09-09
• One of 38-Across — 1994-08-23