Non Fiction / History
Frédéric Mitterrand
1938, The Eye of the Hurricane
After the “cowardly relief” of the Munich agreement, Hitler sends his foreign affairs minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to Paris on the 6th of December to sign a “good neighbour” agreement. ...
Valérie Portheret
You won’t get the children
As she flicked through the entry-and-exit records of children taken into a chateau in the Drôme region of France during the Second World War, Valérie Portheret’s attention was seized by a detail: ...
François-Guillaume Lorrain
Louis XIV – The child king
How did the young Louis become the Sun King, the monarch under whom France’s grandeur shone so dazzlingly? The childhood of Louis XIV was both unhappy and romantic. Crushed by his teachers, ...
Frédéric Mitterrand
The duel
On 2nd December 1851, the President of the Republic, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, breaches the constitution and arrogates all powers to himself before proclaiming himself emperor. A man has been ...
Christian Jacq
These Women Who Created Egypt
AN ODE TO ANCIENT EGYPT AND TO WOMEN In These Women Who Created Egypt Christian Jacq shows us the fundamental role that women, famous or not, played throughout the history of Pharaonic Egypt. ...
Max Gallo
1914-1918
1914 & 1918: two crucial years during which the fate of the World was played out In 14 as in 18, the Germans are less than sixty kilometers from Paris. Each time, the patriotism and the ...
Gonzague Saint Bris
Undress French History
“France is still the country in the world where sensuality reigns, the nation that is the most devoted to the pleasure of loving!” Gonzague Saint Bris An untold and passionate ...
Max Gallo
1917 – A Russian Passion
The Russian Revolution as has never been told before At the end of December 1916, Rasputin had issued this warning to Tsar Nicolas II: “Not one member of your family will live longer than ...
Philippe Maynial
Madeleine Pauliac – The Rebel
The extraordinary story of doctor Madeleine Pauliac, the heroine of Anne Fontaine’s movie “The Innocents”/”Agnus Dei” ! Free and dedicated to the point of sacrifice. ...
Max Gallo
French Revolution
Ten Years of Passion, Fever and Terror With French Revolution we experience the events from the inside. Much differently than in our childhood schoolbooks; a groundbreaking and founding narrative ...
Max Gallo
God Wills It
A vibrant chronicle that draw our attention upon historical recurrence Max Gallo, after Jesus, the Man who was God (more than 120,000 sold copies), drags us into the most novelized tale of one ...
Max Gallo
The Fall of the Roman Empire
With his concise and scintillating pen, Max Gallo guides us, along with Galla Placidia, the last roman Empress and Attila the Hun, through the very last glory days of the empire that had ...