Stéphane Bern tells the story of King Louis XVI, deposed by the revolution and guillotined on January 21st, 1793. He was a cultured man, passionate about the technical advances of his time, but powerless against the huge deficit in the country. He actively supported the birth of the USA. Louis XVI was the last king to live in the palace of Versailles, where he organized the first flight of a balloon, launched the legendary expedition of Jean-Francois de La Perouse and offered his wife Marie Antoinette, the beautiful setting of the Petit Trianon, as million visitors around the world continue to admire.

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...

With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a no...

Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th...

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...

Late 18th-century Joseon dynasty. The King is beleaguered and surrounded by traitors of the ruling e...

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

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

In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in th...

The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along...

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

Patrick Bourgeois dives into the history of one of the worst naval tragedies that ever occurred in Q...

A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the pal...

In 1757, the second year of the Seven Years' War, Frederick II the Great stands at the gates of Prag...

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

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...

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

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...