Historical Fiction France

In Where the Wild Cherries Grow by Laura Madeleine, it is 1919, and the end of World War I has not brought peace for Emeline Vane. Lost in grief, she is suddenly alone at the heart of a depleted family. And just as everything seems to be slipping beyond her control, in a moment of desperation, she boards a train and runs away.

H.G. Wells sets forth an intriguing first-hand observation of Italy, France, and Britain under severe duress during the "War to End All Wars," World War I. He insightfully examines the technological effects of modern warfare, particularly the introduction of the tank and aerial bombing on human nature.

Écosse, 1307. Alors qu'une guerre déchire l'Écosse, Alana, guidée par son instinct, s'élance à corps perdu sur le champ de bataille qui menace le château de Brodie, pour sauver un homme. De ce Highlander aux cheveux sombres elle ne sait rien, si ce n'est la terrible vision de lui qu'elle a eue devant un ciel de flammes. Et, en croisant son regard, Alana est soudain traversée par une onde électrique, un sentiment aussi violent qu'inconnu pour elle. Pourtant elle aperçoit bientôt le gonfanon qui flotte sur son équipage.

London, 1952: Forty-six-year-old Elizabeth Dalloway feels she has failed at most everything in life, especially living up to her mother, the elegant Mrs. Dalloway, an ideal socialite and model of perfection until she disappeared in the summer of 1923—and hasn’t been heard from since. When Elizabeth is handed a medal with a mysterious inscription from her mother to a soldier named Septimus Warren Smith, she’s certain it contains a clue from the past.

In France in the year 1096, everyone in the Jewish community is terrified of the Crusaders, who have been known to burn Jewish houses in the name of religion. One cold Sabbath afternoon, while 12-year-old Elvina is alone in the house, three soldiers pound on her door. One of them is wounded. Elvina has only a moment to make a difficult choice that could put her family and the entire community at risk. Can her guardian angel guide her now?

After becoming the lover of King Henry II, Princess Alais' bid for the throne fails. As Richard the Lionheart, King Henry's son, will not honor their engagement, Alais is sent away to a nunnery to live out the remaining years of her life. Imprisoned at the hands of her enemies, Princess Alais of France finds a way to escape and returns to her home in Paris.

The Search for the Man in the Iron Mask triumphantly solves an enduring puzzle that has stumped historians for centuries and seduced novelists and filmmakers to this day. Who was the man who was rumored to have been kept in prison and treated royally during much of the reign of Louis XIV while being forced to wear an iron mask? Could he possibly have been the twin brother of the Sun King?

Sixteen-year-old Nathalie Baudin writes the daily morgue column for Le Petit Journal. Her job is to summarize each day’s new arrivals, a task she finds both fascinating and routine. That is, until the day she has a vision of the newest body, a young woman, being murdered - from the perspective of the murderer himself. When the body of another woman is retrieved from the Seine days later, Paris begins to buzz with rumors that this victim may not be the last.

One woman battles the coming Dark Ages. "Twilight Empress" tells the little-known story of a remarkable woman: Placidia, sister to one of the last Roman Emperors. Roman Empress and Gothic Queen, Placidia does the unthinkable: she rules the failing Western Roman Empire. A life of ambition, power, and intrigue she doesn't seek, but can't refuse, her actions shape the face of Western Europe for centuries. A woman as well as an empress, Placidia suffers love, loss, and betrayal. Can her intelligence, tenacity, and ambition help her survive and triumph over scheming generals, rebellious children, and Attila the Hun?

Jan Valjean, que despues de ir a la carcel por robar un pedazo de pan, es inmisericordemente perseguido por un agente de la autoridad, Valjean, que trata de mostrar que el pasado ha convertido al hombre en un criminal.

I 1700-talets Paris arbetar huvudpersonen Jacques som stekvändare i sin fars stekstuga Drottning Gåsfot. När stekstugan en dag får besök av abbé Coignard får Jacques ett erbjudande: mot fri mat ska abbén undervisa honom i latin, grekiska och kristendom. Det visar sig att den försupne abbén har minst sagt okonventionella föreställningar om vad ett kristet leverne innebär. Tillsammans stöter de på en mängd bisarra figurer, alla med sina egna säregna idéer om samhället, livet och historien. Drottning Gåsfot är nobelpristagaren Anatole Frances mest älskade och spridda verk.

At last, after 165 years, the sequel to The Man in the Iron Mask... 17th Century France, two years after D'Artagnan's death: Deep beneath the Palais de Versailles, Aramis is shocked and astonished by the directives of D'Artagnan's Legacy. To follow, he must betray his honour; his King and, perhaps most damning of all, his fellow Musketeers. The Sun King will be eclipsed by darkness once more... Or can the ageing Musketeers really reunite, for one last time - for the glory of France?

Théa se lève au petit jour afin de surprendre sa mère galopant sur la plage, seule façon d'entretenir, avec celle dont l'amour est trop partagé, un lien secret. Elle court, la nuit, saboter le sémaphore, afin de provoquer le naufrage, sur le récif de corail, du bateau qui doit emmener son amie Isabelle loin de Nouméa, l'arrachant à elle. Dans le milieu colonial de Nouvelle-Calédonie des années 1950, où règnent conformisme et intrigue, une petite fille, fascinée par la sensualité trouble du monde adulte, découvre la sexualité.