Its immortal opening lines, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." set the stage for a sweeping narrative that combines drama, glory...
Scaramouche is a historical novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1921. A romantic adventure, Scaramouche tells the story of a young lawye...
Reflections on the Revolution in France is a political pamphlet written by the Irish statesman Edmund Burke and published in November 1790. It is fund...
The Antiquary, the third of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott, centres on the character of an antiquary: an amateur historian, archaeologist and col...
I Will Repay was written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy and originally published in 1906, this is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpe...
Paul and Virginia was first published in 1787. The novel's title characters are very good friends since birth who fall in love, but sadly die when the...
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...
My Lady Ludlow is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It appeared in the magazine Household Words in 1858, and was republished in Round the Sofa in 1859, wi...
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 following sketch of the course of the French Revolution was originally published during 1889 in serial form in "Justice," the weekly organ of th...
The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, first published in 1922, is a book in the series about the Scarlet Pimpernel's adventures by Baroness Orczy. Aga...
(Excerpt) One aspect of this subject of revolutionary women, their connection with the secret societies of the day I have purposely ignored. It is obs...
The novel describes the life of a young man living through the revolution of 1848 and the founding of the Second French Empire, and his love for an ol...
After the Roman conquest, the Celtic Gauls adopted Roman culture and speech. The Germanic invasions ultimately transformed France into a Catholic feud...
It follows the lives of three men from different sides of the conflict.
The novel is a powerful exploration of the human condition and the moral dile...
Step into the opulent world of 18th-century France's most iconic queen with "Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette" by Henriette Campan. Delve into...
What was it like to be a female artist during the French Revolution?
In her memoirs, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun recounts her extraordinary life a...
The classic story of Sir Percy Blakeney and his alter ego, the Scarlet Pimpernel. A great adventure, set during the French Revolution. (Summary by Kar...
First Published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. (Summary...
La Société des Amis des Noirs est une association créée le 19 février 1788 qui avait pour but l'abolition immédiate de la traite des Noirs et non de l...
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolutio...
« La Commune » de Louise Michel est un récit poignant de l'insurrection parisienne de 1871, un événement qui a profondément marqué l'histoire de la Fr...
This comprehensive history of France from its earliest times to the mid-19th century covers the major events, figures, and movements that shaped the n...
