Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.

In David Grubin's NAPOLEON watch Napoleon's rise from obscurity to victories that made him a hero to...

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determ...

An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the Fren...

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...

During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreat...

This story of the miller Florian, who gave all his money to the war against Napoleon, is loosely bas...

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...

The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who...

In 1794 Bützow, widow Hornborstel, a top goose breeder, presses Mayor Hane to marry her. Rebuffed, h...

In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writi...

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrest...

The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the ...

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. ...

The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marr...

The famous Viennese harlot ends up in inhospitable Bavaria, where she meets Emperor Napoleon in a re...

Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history clas...

Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position...