This is a 'lightning biography' which serves as an introduction to the field of Napoleonic history. Its purpose is to enable the ordinary reader or wo...
This is a series from a Portuguese nun to her French lover who has abandoned her, and it shows the anger and frustration of a lost love and the feelin...
The Markets of Paris is a remarkable work, and is the one which Zola calls his very best novel, and of which he is far more proud than of any others i...
The book sets forth the principles of nature the Laws of Physics as Descartes viewed them. Most notably, it set forth the principle that in the absenc...
Erec and Enide tells the story of the marriage of the titular characters, as well as the journey they go on to restore Erec's reputation as a knight a...
This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. Among other sketches, it contains "The Jumping Frog" in the original English, foll...
This novel follows the fortunes of the mining community of Aberfoyle near Stirling, Scotland. Receiving a letter from an old colleague, mining enginee...
The story is set in the Franco-Prussian War and follows a group of French residents of Rouen, recently occupied by the Prussian army. The ten travelle...
Thomas Roch, a brilliant French inventor, has designed the Fulgurator, a weapon so powerful that "the state which acquired it would become absolute ma...
This book is an outline of the overall shape and impact of the French Revolution, with references given for deeper study. It is a deliberately short a...
The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), the son of He...
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident tu...
Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does no...
This little book opens on the eve of the French Revolution. The government is crippled by financial mismanagement, ruled by a King who, in the author'...
It is a thrilling mystery collaborative novel. This book follows the story of a journalist who becomes entangled in a web of deceit and danger after a...
The book is a personal account of Houdini's quest to uncover the secrets of the renowned French magician and clockmaker, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin.
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In "George Sand" by Bertha Thomas, delve into the captivating life of one of the most influential and enigmatic figures of 19th-century literature. Th...
Step into the epic conclusion of an extraordinary journey through the annals of history as "Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 03" reveals the grip...
Unravel the enigmatic legacy of an extraordinary emperor as "Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 04" unveils the gripping conclusion of a remarkable...
In celebration of Canada Day, 2006, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of O Canada!. If you prefer English or French, spoken or s...
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Dans ce livre sixième comme dans tous les autres livres des Fables de La Fontaine, vous serez à même de constater la fine observation des éternels com...
Alphonse Allais est un journaliste, écrivain et humoriste français célèbre à la Belle Époque, connu pour sa plume acerbe et son humour absurde. (adapt...
Louisbourg was no mere isolated stronghold which could be lost or won without affecting the wider issues of oversea dominion. On the contrary, it was...
The name Acadia, which we now associate with a great tragedy of history and song, was first used by the French to distinguish the eastern or maritime...
