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A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens.
'Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life' Helen Castor
'Restores two half-forgotten and ...
This is a profoundly original and entertaining history of France, from the first century bc to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and ...
Shocked by the fall of France in 1940, panicked US leaders rushed to back the Vichy government-a fateful decision that nearly destroyed the Anglo-American alliance ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The first full biography of the great Sun King of France for twenty years and winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize
Louis XIV dominated ...
In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews-pillars of an embattled community-invested their fortunes ...
Blending memoir, travelogue, and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and longtime New ...
Paris at the turn of the twentieth century had become the cultural capital of the world. Artists and writers came to contribute to flourishing avant-garde ...
During 1940-1944, the citizens of France and its Empire endured the 'dark years' of invasion, persecution and foreign occupation. Thousands of men, women and children ...