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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Follow Napoleon Bonaparte, everyone’s favorite vertically challenged dictator, as he learns to inter...

Based on an excerpt from the novel by L.N.Tolstoy "War and Peace." The war of 1812. The defeated Na...

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which...

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

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

During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a h...

Paris, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to...

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the ...

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