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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War and the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon's thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation.
2) Loot
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas hones his craft and learns to read French and then meets...
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English
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In the early days of the French Revolution, a young Englishman determines to do the utmost to save the husband of the woman he loves from the guillotine.
Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England....
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English
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They say Léon Delafosse will be France’s next great pianist. But despite his being the youngest student ever accepted into the prestigious Paris Conservatory, there’s no way an impoverished musician can make his way in 1890s Paris without an outside patron. Young gossip columnist Marcel Proust takes Léon under his wing, and the boys game their way through an extravagant new world. When the larger-than-life Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac...
7) General and Madame de Lafayette: partners in liberty's cause in the American and French Revolutions
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Publisher
Taylor Trade
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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English
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"The gruesome murder of a young French physician draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his pregnant wife, Hero, into a dangerous, decades-old mystery as a wrenching piece of Sebastian's past puts him to the ultimate test. Regency England, January 1813: When a badly injured Frenchwoman is found beside the mutilated body of Dr. Damion Pelletan in one of London's worst slums, Sebastian finds himself caught in a high-stakes tangle of...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The Salpetriere Asylum: Paris, 1885. Dr. Charcot holds all of Paris in thrall with his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad and cast out from society. But the truth is much more complicated--these women are often simply inconvenient, unwanted wives, those who have lost something precious, wayward daughters, or girls born from adulterous relationships. For Parisian society, the highlight of the year is the Lenten ball--the Madwomen's...
13) Revenant Eve
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Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Pulled two centuries back in time to Europe during the rise of Napoleon, Kim Murray--now a spirit--must guard twelve-year-old Aurelie de Mascarenhas and get the child to the small, magical country of Dobrenica--or more than just one family will vanish.
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Publisher
Merit Press, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1789 Paris, Celie Rousseau lives on the streets stealing to survive, but when she is arrested she is given the remarkable opportunity to become an apprentice to Madame Tussaud, and as the Revolution begins, she must choose between her royal patrons and Algernon, the freedom fighter she loves.
16) Dark destiny
Author
Series
Dark mirror novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Tory and her friends receive an urgent summons, leading the young mages known as Merlin's Irregulars to ask Rebecca Weiss, an untrained telepath from 1940, to join them in 1804 and stop Napoleon from invading England.
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Series
Publisher
Panamerica Editorial
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
Es "el más grande hombre de acción nacido en europa desde julio césar", según Winston Churchill. Dar cuenta de esta figura supone el relato de una vida en la que el soldado da tantas batallas, el aventurero que exploró egipto con ojos de científico, el legislador que otorgó a francia un gobierno fuerte y efectivo y el prisionero que pasó sus últimos años en una isla remota, entra y sale de escena, y nos brinda una lectura vívida, llena...
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Oxford University Press
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English
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" This Very Short Introduction might prove disappointing to those expecting an introduction to a very short man. Dispelling the myth of Napoleon Bonaparte's short stature, as well as the other rumors and legends, David Bell provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. This book emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for both good and ill--that...
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