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From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and influence of Jules Verne, the novelist whose mind spun the greatest adventures ever told and whose daring and prescient imagination sparked a lasting transformation of modern...

Helen Castor brings us afresh a riveting life of Joan of Arc. Instead of the icon, she gives us a living, breathing young woman, a roaring girl fighting the English and taking sides in a bloody civil war that was tearing apart fifteenth-century France. Here is a portrait of a nineteen-year-old...

A cycling race from frost to palm trees, this is the untold story of the celebrated Paris–Nice where the world’s greatest riders are made The annual Paris–Nice race – aka the Race to the Sun – takes frostbitten riders from the chill of the Paris suburbs to the palm tree-fringed balm of...

Morgue is a book about the history and afterlives of the most influential building you’ve never heard of. Peer through the enormous window and you will see twelve marble slabs. On each slab lies a corpse. For over one hundred years, from 1804, the unidentified dead of Paris, Europe’s hub of...

In this audiobook, the world-renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) describes the three extraordinary lives of Moses Dobrushka. Beginning his life as a Bohemian Jew in the antinomian cult of Sabbatean Frankism, Dobrushka first re-invented himself as the Catholic...

Self-confessed loafer Time Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting event in the world, sets out to cycle the course of the Tour de France. All 3,630km of it. Racing old men on butchers' bikes and chased by cows, Moore soon resorts to standard race tactics - cheating and drugs - in a hilarious and moving tale of true adventure.

A captivating history of the French Revolution. Concise, convincing and exciting, The French Revolution is Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and fascinating detail, he charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, right through to the coup d'état that brought Napoleon to power ten years later.

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling biographer vividly captures how Napoleon Bonaparte and his team of rivals blazed a path onto the world stage. After crowning himself Emperor in May 1804, Napoleon appointed twenty-six men Marshals of the Empire, a position he created to honor his...

An intimate, shocking true story from the Parisian demi-monde of the 1960s, Murder in Paris ’68 evokes an era when the high-life and the low-life went hand in hand. It was a time when the French New Wave of cinema was taking the world by storm, a time of glamour, sports cars, casinos, and nightclubs—and at the heart of it all, the man of the moment, the enigmatic film star Alain Delon, dubbed "the most beautiful man in the world."

Des premiers peuplements gaulois aux réalités contemporaines de son auteur, Théophile Lavallée offre, dans ce premier volume, une fresque accessible de la capitale. Entre formation de la cité, développement des institutions, mutations urbaines et vie des habitants, il suit, siècle après siècle, l’essor d’un lieu devenu cœur de la France. Portée par la curiosité et la rigueur d’un historien du XIXe siècle, cette Histoire de Paris guide l’auditeur à travers les grandes étapes qui ont façonné la ville et révèle, avec clarté, les lignes de force d’une métropole en perpétuelle transformation.

Texte singulier de Denis Diderot, cette œuvre fait du récit lui‑même un terrain d’expérimentation: par le détour, l’ironie et le paradoxe, elle interroge ce qui fonde une société qui se pense moderne. Derrière le badinage apparent affleure une réflexion philosophique sur le pouvoir, la vérité et les discours qui nous gouvernent.

De ses lointaines origines à ses accroissements jusqu’à nos jours, cette notice historique retrace, avec la sobriété érudite du XIXe siècle, l’aventure de la Bibliothèque nationale. Rédigée par T. Mortreuil, secrétaire de l’institution, elle résume les principaux événements qui ont marqué la formation et l’essor des collections, des manuscrits aux estampes, en s’appuyant sur l’Essai de Le Prince (1782) et sur les travaux du vicomte Delaborde et de Léopold Delisle.

De Rochecotte, le 1er janvier 1841, s’ouvre ce troisième volet de la Chronique de 1831 à 1862. La duchesse de Dino — puis duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan — y fixe, au fil des années 1841 à 1850, l’allure d’une époque: impressions, rencontres, jugements, et ces instantanés qui font l’histoire vécue. Sa plume, tour à tour grave et légère, saisit l’atmosphère de son temps et la nuance des êtres et des événements, en une suite de pages proches du jour.

Brought to you by Penguin. 1804, immediately after his coronation as Emperor, Napoleon created the Marshalate, the supreme martial rank of the empire. Over the next decade, he elevated to it some of his most outstanding generals, who played leading roles in his extraordinary campaigns –...

A sweeping, definitive history of the dynamic, expansionist dynasty that forged the Middle Ages—and Europe—as we know it. “Historical scholarship, and historical storytelling, at its finest.” —Matthew Gabriele, coauthor of The Bright Ages and Oathbreakers Today, the Carolingians are...

A prize-winning scholar’s new and expansive telling of the Hundred Years’ War, revealing how the lines drawn on medieval battlefields forged the modern world  “A riveting page-turner that brilliantly revises centuries of history” (Bernard Cornwell, New York Times–bestselling author...

Discover the ancient myths and legendary creatures of the Basque people, one of Europe's oldest and most fascinating cultures. Journey into a world of one-eyed giants, seven-headed serpents, wild men of the forest, enchanted fairies, witches, and supernatural beings whose stories have been passed down through generations.

A penniless Corsican outsider crowned himself Emperor of France—then set the entire continent ablaze to keep that crown. How does an obscure artillery officer with no fortune, no royal blood, and a thick foreign accent claw his way to the most powerful throne in Europe? And what does it cost a man to burn Moscow to the ground, march half a million soldiers to their deaths in the snow, and still believe himself the chosen instrument of destiny?

Paris, wenige Jahre vor Ausbruch der Revolution: Im Salon des Barons d'Holbach treffen sich regelmäßig die besten Köpfe Europas. Denis Diderot, David Hume, Laurence Sterne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau und viele andere Denker des 18. Jahrhunderts streiten um eine zeitgemäße Philosophie, die die Religion hinter sich lässt und allein auf die Kraft des Verstandes setzt, aber auch den Leidenschaften angemessenen Platz einräumt.

Discover how an Enlightenment tool for humane justice became European history's most terrifying symbol of state violence. Perfect for a gripping commute or a dark history deep dive, this chilling narrative explores the macabre transition from chaotic public spectacles of the sword to clinical...