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Napoleon: The True Story of the Life & Time of Napoleon Bonaparte the Emperor of France
- Royalty Biography
- By: The History Journals, Liam Dale
- Narrated by: Liam Dale
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Do you want to learn more about the great military leader Napoleon Bonaparte, but don’t have time to read huge, long biographies? Then let The History Journals take you on an hourly history tour of his life. Regardless of which version of Napoleon is to be believed, evil dictator or inspiring military leader, or perhaps more likely, somewhere between the two, this journal will look at his truly fascinating and eventful life.
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Napoleon: The True Story of the Life & Time of Napoleon Bonaparte the Emperor of France
- Royalty Biography
- Narrated by: Liam Dale
- Series: History's Greatest Figures
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Release date: 06-09-19
- Language: English
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Die Buchhandlung der Exilanten
- Paris 1940 - Zuflucht und Widerstand
- By: Uwe Neumahr
- Narrated by: Peter Bieringer
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Sie sind literarische Legenden. Adrienne Monnier und Sylvia Beach haben mit ihren benachbarten Buchhandlungen über Jahrzehnte das literarische Paris geprägt. Doch 1940, mit der deutschen Besatzung, ändert sich auch für sie alles. Aus der literarischen Oase im Herzen der Stadt wird ein Zufluchtsort für deutsch-jüdische Exilanten und ein Ort des Widerstands. Uwe Neumahr erzählt in seinem bewegenden Buch die Geschichte dieses großen Paares und ihrer Freunde.
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Die Buchhandlung der Exilanten
- Paris 1940 - Zuflucht und Widerstand
- Narrated by: Peter Bieringer
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 20-02-26
- Language: German
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The First Emancipation
- The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France
- By: Jeremy D. Popkin
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A new history of slavery and the French Revolution When the French revolutionaries passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen in 1789, they immediately faced a burning question: did that document's first article—"Men are born and remain free and equal in rights"—apply to the 800...
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The First Emancipation
- The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 21-04-26
- Language: English
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Josephine
- A Life of the Empress
- By: Carolly Erickson
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Popular biographer Carolly Erickson creates intimate and richly detailed portraits of her historical subjects. In this book she offers a provocative new perspective on Josephine and her fabled marriage to Napoleon.
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Josephine
- A Life of the Empress
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 14-04-11
- Language: English
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Paris to the Past
- Traveling Through French History by Train
- By: Ina Caro
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites listeners on 25 one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through 700 years of French history. Whether taking us to Orléans to evoke the visions of Joan of Arc or to the Place de la Concorde to witness the beheading of Marie Antoinette, Caro animates history with her lush descriptions of architectural splendors and tales of court intrigue. "[An] enchanting travelogue" (Publishers Weekly), Paris to the Past has become one of the classic guidebooks of our time.
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Fascinating but
- By J A Hibbs on 04-03-15
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Paris to the Past
- Traveling Through French History by Train
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 18-06-13
- Language: English
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Pardon My French
- How a Grumpy American Fell in Love with France
- By: Allen Johnson
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In France, Johnson is like an alien from another planet. Everything is strange to him. His goal is to speak French without going to prison, drive without being squashed like a bug, dance the tango without losing his marriage, and belt out a tune with a world-class jazz combo without being booed off the stage. Repeatedly, the author fearlessly steps into harm's way. He joins a summer acting troop and witnesses the French version of sexual liberation.
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Pardon My French
- How a Grumpy American Fell in Love with France
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 02-06-17
- Language: English
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Emilie Du Chatelet
- Daring Genius of the Enlightenment
- By: Judith P. Zinsser
- Narrated by: Sarah K. Lippmann
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
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Although today she is best known for her fifteen-year liaison with Voltaire, Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise Du Châtelet (1706-1749) was more than a great man's mistress. After marrying a marquis at the age of eighteen, she proceeded to fulfill the prescribed-and delightfully frivolous-role of a French noblewoman of her time. But she also challenged it, conducting a highly visible affair with Voltaire, disparaged as a commoner, writing philosophical works, and translating Newton's Principia while pregnant by a younger lover.
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Emilie Du Chatelet
- Daring Genius of the Enlightenment
- Narrated by: Sarah K. Lippmann
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 28-02-25
- Language: English
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To Kidnap a Pope
- Napoleon and Pius VII
- By: Ambrogio A. Caiani
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In the wake of the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of France, and Pope Pius VII shared a common goal: to reconcile the church with the state. But while they were able to work together initially, formalizing an agreement in 1801, relations between them rapidly deteriorated. In 1809, Napoleon ordered the Pope's arrest. Ambrogio Caiani provides a pioneering account of the tempestuous relationship between the emperor and his most unyielding opponent.
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To Kidnap a Pope
- Napoleon and Pius VII
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
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Marie Curie: A Life From Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Mike Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the most famous women of the 20th century, Marie Curie was a trailblazer in the truest sense. Known for her discovery of two radioactive elements, radium and polonium, Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She remains the only woman to win two Nobel Prizes in different sciences.
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Marie Curie: A Life From Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Mike Nelson
- Series: Biographies of Women in History
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Release date: 10-12-18
- Language: English
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Under the Streets of Nice
- The Bank Heist of the Century
- By: Ken Follett, René L. Maurice
- Narrated by: Roddy McDowall
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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One hot Monday morning in 1976, Albert Spaggiari engineered the European crime of the century. A bank president in Nice, France found his vault welded shut—from the inside. Spaggiari and his gang of 20 men had dug a 25-foot tunnel from the city's sewer system into the bank, where they spent a weekend cooking meals, drinking wine, and clearing millions of dollars in gold, jewelry, gems, and cash. Here is the breathtakingly compelling story of Spaggiari, his “sewer gang,” and the most daring, outrageous theft of the 20th century.
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The nerve of the character
- By Mrs P on 29-12-24
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Under the Streets of Nice
- The Bank Heist of the Century
- Narrated by: Roddy McDowall
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 31-03-22
- Language: English
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Nos rois de France
- By: Franck Ferrand, Pierre-Louis Lensel, Anne-Louise Sautreuil
- Narrated by: Renaud Bertin Cordoliani
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Les rois de France en majesté. Il ne s'agit pas d'une histoire de la monarchie française, mais de celle de " nos rois " : ceux dont le règne a le plus marqué l'histoire nationale. Si Franck Ferrand évoque, par souci de clarté et de filiation, les premiers (jusqu'au début de la dynastie capétienne) et les derniers monarques (jusqu'à Louis-Philippe), il s'attache principalement à raconter la vie et l'œuvre de quatorze d'entre eux, depuis Philippe-Auguste jusqu'à Louis XVI.
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Nos rois de France
- Narrated by: Renaud Bertin Cordoliani
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 13-07-23
- Language: French
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Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days
- Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie
- By: Will Bashor
- Narrated by: Aaron Killian
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family's arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the "waiting room for the guillotine" because prisoners only spent a day or two here before their conviction and subsequent execution. The ex-queen surely knew her days were numbered, but she could never have known that two and a half months would pass before she would finally stand trial and be convicted.
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Superb!
- By Roseline Swain on 20-01-21
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Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days
- Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie
- Narrated by: Aaron Killian
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 20-07-17
- Language: English
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Bienvenue chez les Gaulois
- Essai socio-historico-humoristique pour mieux comprendre les Français
- By: Gaspard Chevallier
- Narrated by: Gaspard Chevallier
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Si je n'avais pas été français, j'aurais tant aimé l'être ! Il y a tellement à écrire sur ce peuple. Parce que les français sont capables d'inventer le cinéma, la voiture, la radioactivité, mais également le soutien-gorge, le croque-monsieur, la poubelle et le dentier. Un pays vu comme celui de l'amour et dont les mots "voulez-vous coucher avec moi ?" sont les plus prononcés par les étrangers.
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Bienvenue chez les Gaulois
- Essai socio-historico-humoristique pour mieux comprendre les Français
- Narrated by: Gaspard Chevallier
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 26-11-21
- Language: French
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Why We Are Restless
- On the Modern Quest for Contentment
- By: Benjamin Storey, Jenna Silber Storey
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change - even if it means undermining the foundations of our common life. In Why We Are Restless, Benjamin and Jenna Storey offer a profound and beautiful reflection on the roots of this malaise and examine how we might begin to cure ourselves.
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Why We Are Restless
- On the Modern Quest for Contentment
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 06-04-21
- Language: English
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To the Scaffold
- The Life of Marie Antoinette
- By: Carolly Erickson
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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To this day Marie Antoinette remains one of history’s most misunderstood heroines. How she triumphed over the petty jealousies and backstairs rivalries of the court, how she sustained a good-hearted but malleable king, and how she was transformed from French queen to Austrian “whore,” is the story told with skill and fascinating detail.
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Great Book about the ill-fated Queen!
- By Colin Broadley on 26-04-18
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To the Scaffold
- The Life of Marie Antoinette
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 04-10-11
- Language: English
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Joan of Arc: A Life from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Nate Sjol
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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No historical figure’s life story offers a more intriguing and insightful look at a specific moment in French - and European - history than that of Joan of Arc. Over the course of a life that sadly lasted just 19 years, Joan of Arc completely altered the course of the Hundred Year’s War. Ultimately, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for her insistence that she received counsel from God, but what she achieved as a result of this guidance is a truly incredible story.
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Joan of Arc: A Life from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Nate Sjol
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-12-17
- Language: English
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The Seine
- The River That Made Paris
- By: Elaine Sciolino
- Narrated by: Elaine Sciolino
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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Elaine Sciolino came to Paris as a young foreign correspondent and was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river from its source on a remote plateau of Burgundy to the wide estuary where its waters meet the sea, and the cities, tributaries, islands, ports, and bridges in between.
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The Seine
- The River That Made Paris
- Narrated by: Elaine Sciolino
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 29-10-19
- Language: English
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Versailles
- The History and Legacy of France's Most Famous Royal Palace
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
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In every nation, in every era of history, there are inevitably one or two places that become the symbol of the times. Mention Valley Forge to an American and it will immediately conjure up visions of a hard won fight for freedom. Likewise, the word Dunkirk said to a Briton will elicit a sense of both pride and horror at the lives lost and saved at that desperate point in World War II. For the French, and those who study their history, Versailles is a symbol of, as Charles Dickens once put it, "the best of times...the worst of times."
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Versailles
- The History and Legacy of France's Most Famous Royal Palace
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Release date: 27-02-17
- Language: English
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The Rights of Man
- By: Thomas Paine
- Narrated by: Matthew Erwin
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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Published in 1791, Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man defended the French Revolution’s values of freedom, equality, and brotherhood. He argued that a government based on justice ought to support mankind’s civil rights relating to security and protection, as well as the natural rights to life, liberty, and freedom of conscience. He also proposed plans for universal education, pensions, poverty relief, and social welfare in this classic work that was widely read across the West.
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The Rights of Man
- Narrated by: Matthew Erwin
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 04-04-19
- Language: English
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The Phoney War
- The History of the Uneasy Calm along the Western Front at the Start of World War II
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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Europe’s attempts to appease Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, most notably at Munich in 1938, failed, as Nazi Germany swallowed up Austria and Czechoslovakia by 1939. Italy was on the march as well, invading Albania in April of 1939.
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The Phoney War
- The History of the Uneasy Calm along the Western Front at the Start of World War II
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
- Release date: 10-04-23
- Language: English
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