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In early October 1795, Napoleon Bonaparte led the governing Directory's army against the rioting royalists in Paris (who were rebelling to restore the monarchy ...
An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents
On January ...
The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written-Marquis de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom-landed at the ...
An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution and how it could have been avoided, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying ...
'An extraordinary journey of discovery' - Daily Telegraph
'Pedals along with never a dull paragraph . . . dazzling' - The Sunday Times
Ten years ago, I began to explore ...
The mysterious tale of a great leader, martyred for her cause, and often regarded as a woman beyond her time. Patron saint, visionary, defender of ...
In his busy life Balzac wrote many love letters, and in The Human Comedy he portrayed many female beauties, but he certainly never imagined or ...
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 ...
'Phenomenal... Utterly absorbing' Sunday Times, 'Book of the Week''[A] fabulous romp of a book'****
The Norman story began in 911, when a frightened French king (Charles III 'the Simple') gave land on the Channel coast to the Viking leader ...
Winner of the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award
"Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that bedeviled ...
A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers: France's Louis XVI
"The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI ...
A prism into the most controversial period of twentieth-century French history, from one of the great contemporary historians of France
Few images more shocked the ...
A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of 2022
'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' - Spectator
'A fresh way to write history' - Alan Johnson
'A quirky, amused, erudite ...
