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.

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had...

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, ...

Soon after her latest husband death, the King himself (Louis XIV) meets with our heroine and begs he...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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