In 1794 Bützow, widow Hornborstel, a top goose breeder, presses Mayor Hane to marry her. Rebuffed, he bans free‐range geese under a “goose edict.” Enraged, she enlists revolutionary‐minded Magister Albus to rally citizens. They rise for goose freedom, the duke deposes Hane, installs a new mayor, and Albus escapes across the border.
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...
Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds b...
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...
At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of seve...
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...
A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering fro...
The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marri...
Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determ...
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the ...
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a h...
The Catholic priest Hell takes the orphan Annerl into his house as a maid. This soon gives rise to w...
The time is the French Revolution; the place is the village of Travers, ensconsed in neutral Switzer...
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacob...
In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of ...