Non Fiction / Historical biography

Joan of Arc

On the occasion of the 600th anniversary of Joan of Arc’s birth in January 2012, Max Gallo tells the incredible and epic story of this extraordinary young woman. “Jeanne is a young woman barely ...

Jesus, the Man who was God

All Max Gallo’s powers of bringing a story and all its subleties to life were needed to tell the tale of one of the greatest mysteries of the world: Jesus, man or God, God and man… On ...

Napoleon, Uncovered

The portrait, from up close, of an unknown Napoleon “Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, is my grandfather’s grandfather. In the Emperor’s story, the story of the Republican general, or the ...

Gandhi

Volume 2 : And India Will Be Free!

The second volume of a gripping biography, which underlines the modernity of this great man.

Mozart

Volume 4 : The Beloved of Isis

While sick and crippled with debts, Mozart still composes, because his life depends on his work. So will he accept, with sort of a premonitory and heartrending surge, the mysterious order for a ...

I, Buddha

The life of an exceptional man, famous but unknown, who revolutionized his times and still continues to win vast numbers of followers. Siddartha was born six centuries before Christ, into an ...

Caesar Imperator

A popular biography in which Max Gallo explores with his usual talent and passion this fascinating and ambitious man, his love and sensual pleasure as well as thirst of power and glory.

The Conspiracy of Joan

And what if Jeanne d’Arc was not the woman we thought she was… It is Sunday 20 May 1436, just as the dean of the Saint-Thibault Church, in Metz, has finished mass and is chatting with his ...

Victor Hugo

Volume 2 : Je serai celui-là !

The fascinating portrait of a major author of French literature, who because of his political slant and his controversial writings, was also a prominent 19th Century figure.