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The dramatic untold story of Eugénie de Montijo, the woman who created haute couture, fought for women’s rights, opened France’s schools to girls and ruled the country as its last empress, yet today remains almost unknown. Although a nineteenth-century woman, her almost twenty-first-century...

Bloomsbury presents Case Red: The Collapse of France by Robert Forczyk, read by Christopher Ragland. Case Red tells the often overlooked story of the fall of Metropolitan France from the evacuation of the BEF at Dunkirk through to the eventual collapse and armistice in June 1940. Even after the...

Award-winning writer Richard Williams tells the remarkable story of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, one of the world's most iconic motorsports events, which celebrates its centenary in 2023. The event was created by a group of Frenchmen in 1923 and remains uniquely compelling to spectators, to the...

The incredible story of the first African American military pilot, who went on to become a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave...

As you begin to listen to this audiobook, you will undoubtedly feel that Queen Marie Antoinette and King Louise XVI led spoiled lives. You will be right in what you think; but you will also find out that with their parents arranging their marriages at a very young age, neither of them was ever able to experience the feelings of young love. You will see what horrors and terrors that Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, their children, and Louis’ sister had to suffer through for four years before their deaths.

First published in 1897, this murder mystery relates the story of a young Frenchman, Louis, who, having grown up in England, returns to France at the false invitation of his Uncle Bernac. Louis quickly finds himself in personal danger as well as involved in a conspiracy against Napoleon.

A prize-winning scholar’s new and expansive telling of the Hundred Years’ War, revealing how the lines drawn on medieval battlefields forged the modern world  “A riveting page-turner that brilliantly revises centuries of history” (Bernard Cornwell, New York Times–bestselling author...

From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette—the one Frenchman we could all agree on—and an insightful portrait of a nation's idealism and its reality. On August 16, 1824, an elderly French...

They never won the trophy. They won everything else. While Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic defined one of the greatest eras in tennis history, four Frenchmen were writing a different kind of story. Richard Gasquet's one-handed backhand became one of the most beautiful shots of his generation. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga brought explosive power and unforgettable big-match performances. Gaël Monfils transformed defense and athleticism into pure theater. Gilles Simon out-thought opponents with a remarkable brand of patient, analytical tennis.

A vivid, dramatic, and eye-opening historical narrative, The Man in the Iron Mask reveals the story behind the most enduring mystery of Louis XIV’s reign. The Man in the Iron Mask has all the hallmarks of a thrilling adventure story: a glamorous and all-powerful king, ambitious ministers, a...

Après l'immense succès de "Métronome", Lorànt Deutsch met une nouvelle fois son formidable talent de conteur au service de l'Histoire de notre pays. Des voies romaines aux sentiers de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle, le comédien nous entraîne dans une promenade érudite et passionnante sur ces routes qui ont façonné la France. On s'émerveille avec lui des vestiges de notre passé, on frémit des terribles crimes qui l'ont accompagné et on se régale des innombrables anecdotes romanesques qui parsèment son récit.

Nous avons tous appris un jour que Clovis était le premier des rois de France. Qui sait qu'en Allemagne, il est considéré comme un roi allemand ? De Saint Louis, on garde l'image d'un grand souverain, rendant la justice sous son chêne. On ignore qu'il imposa aux Juifs de porter l'équivalent de l'étoile jaune. Jeanne d'Arc est la grande héroïne du Moyen Âge. Pourquoi a-t-on oublié toutes les autres ? Nombreux sont les Français qui s'intéressent à notre passé, nombreux aussi ceux qui se désolent de mal le connaître.

Tiré de l'ouvrage "Simple récits de l'histoire de France" du pédagogue Gustave Ducoudray, cette "Histoire de France" est conçue comme un manuel destiné aux néophytes. Ce troisième volume traite de Jeanne d'Arc, de François 1er et des Guerres de Religion.

The Louvre. The very name conjures up scenes of art and elegance, and of long halls filled with beauty and people strolling through them whispering quietly among themselves about the glories they are witnessing. Even those who have never been to the Louvre know some of its most prized possessions, from ancient statues to Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. As the world's largest museum, the Louvre is the cultural highpoint of Paris, a city that has long been considered the cultural center of Europe.

Over 40,000 Frenchmen were executed for holding fast to the Catholic Faith and objecting to the worst excesses of the Committee of Public Safety. The bloodlust of the time staggers the imagination, and the campaign against the Church was as diabolical as it was cruel. Carroll captures the brutality of the period, but also the action of grace in the heroism of the Church, the saintliness of her martyrs and the dramatic conversion of Danton—an erstwhile leader of the uprising who landed in a death-battle with the forces he helped put in motion.

Tome 1 : Gênes - Austerlitz - Eylau. "J'engage le colonel Marbot à continuer à écrire pour la défense et la gloire des Armées françaises et en confondre les calomniateurs", écrivait Napoléon dans son testament. "Les Mémoires du Général Marbot" constituent un remarquable témoignage sur l'épopée des guerres napoléoniennes.

Based on research in five languages and in archives across the globe, Habsburgs on the Rio Grande fundamentally revises narratives of global history. Far more than a footnote, the Second Mexican Empire was at the center of world-historic great-power struggles—a point of inflection in a contest for supremacy that set the terms of twentieth-century rivalry.

Since the earliest days of civilization, people have built homes not just for shelter, but to proclaim their status in the world. There is evidence from the earliest known cultures that one way in which rulers showcased power was by building a more elaborate home than those around them had. Through the centuries, as homes grew larger and better furnished, those in charge had to make their homes even larger and furnish and decorate them even more.

Cette collection "L'Histoire de France vivante" nous faire revivre les grandes heures de l'histoire de France. Pour chaque époque, l'illustration sonore est faite avec des musiques de la période concernée. Les grands moments de chaque période sont reconstitués à la façon d'une pièce de théâtre, avec plusieurs comédiens et comédiennes qui interprètent les personnages historiques.

In this highly original history of the world's most famous bicycle race, Christopher S. Thompson, mining previously neglected sources and writing with infectious enthusiasm for his subject, tells the compelling story of the Tour de France from its creation in 1903 to the present.