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The gripping, atmospheric true story of the duel to end all duels- a trial by combat pitting a knight against a squire accused of violating ...
Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives, transforming France and Europe in the space of just twenty years from 1795 ...
A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen
"Presents [Marie-Antoinette] as much more than a symbol whose meaning ...
The Cartiers is the revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty--four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s. At its heart are the three Cartier brothers ...
Late in 1664, the musketeer DArtagnan rode beside a carriage as it left Paris, carrying his friend Nicolas Fouquet to life imprisonment in a cell ...
Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few ...
Francis I (1494-1547) was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Arguably he was also the most significant king that France ever had.
A contemporary of Henry ...
An enthralling work of history about the Libertine generation that came up during--and was eventually destroyed by--the French Revolution.
The Last Libertines, as Benedetta Craveri ...
The French Revolution was the "big bang" out of which all the elements of modern politics and social conflicts were formed. Democracy, populism, liberalism, conservatism ...
The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is an objective ...
The life of Vincent de Paul, the great apostle of charity, is one of the most inspiring of all the Christian saints and his legacy ...
A vital examination of one of the most despicable Second World War massacres and a great unsolved war crime that does not shy away from ...
Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he built at Versailles ...
