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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 ...
A story of displacement and resistance during the early days of the Nazi occupation of France.
A story of displacement and resistance during the early ...
The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are ...
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 ...
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 ...
'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad
A landmark new biography that presents the man behind ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A remarkable historical account of the celebration and chaos that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944
Post liberation Paris - an epoch charged with ...
The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 ...
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 ...
