France category: 4880 books
History of the War in the Peninsula, under Napoleon - Vol. II
to which is prefixed a view of the political and military state of the four belligerent powers
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
General Maximilien Foy was a renowned and experienced French general with a long and distinguished career. An artilleryman like his master Napoleon , he fulfilled his duty to France despite disagreeing with Napoleon, and fought across Europe from Switzerland, Germany, Portugal and Spain. He spent...
Louis
The French Prince Who Invaded England
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In 1215 a group of English barons, dissatisfied with the weak and despicable King John, decided that they needed a new monarch. They wanted a strong, experienced man, of royal blood, and they found him on the other side of the Channel: astonishingly, the most attractive candidate for the crown of England...
The Safe House
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In Paris’s exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts are that family, and they have secrets. The Safe House tells their story.
When the Nazis came, Étienne Boltanski divorced his wife and walked out the front door, never...
by Louis Blanc
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Depuis l’ouverture des États généraux jusqu’au lendemain de la célèbre nuit du 4 août, trois mois seulement ; et, dans ce court espace de temps, que de grandes choses voulues, tentées et accomplies !
Des divers points de la France, quelques plébéiensignorés sont venus se réunir à Versailles...
Citizenship between Empire and Nation
Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
As the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the inhabitants of French colonies possessed the rights of French citizens. Moreover, they did not have to conform to the French civil code that regulated marriage and inheritance. One...
by Victor Duruy
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.
The Friar of Carcassonne
Revolt Against the Inquisition in the Last Days of the Cathars
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
In 1300, the French region of Languedoc had been cowed under the authority of both Rome and France since Pope Innocent III 's Albigensian Crusade nearly a century earlier. That crusade almost wiped out the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians whose beliefs threatened the authority of the Catholic...
The Wandering Princess
Princess Hélène of France, Duchess of Aosta (1871-1951)
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
The first major in-depth examination of her life based upon newly discovered archives
Little-known Italian history explored
The First World War from a front-line royal perspective
The royal courts of Europe in a time of great transition
Hélène was a strong-willed princess, raised in France but...
by Gordon Corrigan
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The glory and tragedy of the Hundred Years War is revealed in a new historical narrative, bringing Henry V, the Black Prince, and Joan of Arc to fresh and vivid life
In this captivating new history of a conflict that raged for over a century, Gordon Corrigan reveals the horrors of battle and...
Gabrielle d'Estrées presque reine
1570-1599
Language: French
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Grand amateur de femmes, Henri IV est bien connu pour avoir eu de très nombreuses maîtresses et favorites. L'une d'elle tient une place à part dans la vie du roi : c'est Gabrielle d'Estrées, avec laquelle il vit une passion amoureuse pendant huit ans. Jamais encore...
by Francis Loring Payne
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
A history of the city of Versailles in France. Versailles was once the capital of France and the Palace of Versailles is considered one of the most beautiful palaces in the world. This is a comprehensive study of many important periods in the history of the city.
by Julian Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
"The finest one-volume life of de Gaulle in English." —Richard Norton Smith, Wall Street Journal In a definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept Nazi domination of France, Julian Jackson captures this titanic figure as never before. Drawing on unpublished letters,...
by Susan L. Plotkin
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2001
The metro may be a mere hundred years old but it tells a tale of France twenty times as long. The story begins in the fifth century BC when wild Celtic tribes roamed the countryside of Gaul. Then Julius Caesar imposed a Roman rule that lasted five hundred years and forced the Celts to settle down....
Every Word You Write ... Vichy Will Be Watching You
Surveillance of Public Opinion in the Gard Department 1940-1944: The Postal Control System During Vichy France
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Following Frances military defeat in 1940, Marshal Pétain and his Vichy regime drastically expanded upon the role of a top secret organization known as the Postal Surveillance System. The organization served two purposes: to find out how people felt about Vichys policies, including collaboration with...