Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.

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

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visit...

The life and death of an educated communist activist who brought Bolshevik ideas to his native Serbi...

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

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

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

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicat...

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

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...

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic pr...

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

Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of gi...

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

Amidst the French revolution, Citizen Robespierre is beheading the aristocracy! When word gets to En...

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

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi...