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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel...

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

Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the...

The time is the French Revolution; the place is the village of Travers, ensconsed in neutral Switzer...

During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are...

A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.

Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi...