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After watching a D-Day film, do youwonder why no French units took part in the invasion of their own German-occupied country? General Charles De Gaulle ...
From the turmoil and tragedy of the French Revolution to the rise and fall of the enigmatic figure of Napoleon Bonaparte, the history of France ...
Intelligent, ambitious and a rising star in the French artillery, Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family, money, and the prospect of a post ...
In 1871, the working class of Paris, incensed by their lack of political power and tired of being exploited, seized control of the capital. This ...
Who was Louis Philippe? In this new biography, Ann Allestree examines the man, his legacy and the extraordinary vicissitudes of his life.
An eclectic, affectionate biography of Louis XV's most famous and enduring mistress
When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that ...
The island of St Helena, in the South Atlantic, is one of the most remote and most famous islands in the world. The Duke of ...
The definitive biography of Talleyrand by the inimitable Duff Cooper
Duff Cooper's classic biography charts the remarkable progress of Talleyrand; a silver-tongued master diplomat ...
Offering an intriguing, concise history of Paris, beautifully illustrated by works from the archives of the museums of Paris, this delightful book takes the reader ...
A new translation of this classic text
The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled ...
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 ...
Now in paperback, an award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between the reign ...
On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had ...
