In the 1670s, fourteen-year-old Marion, who has a talent for making perfumes, gets the chance to serve Louis XIV's mistress at the palace of Versailles, where she gets caught up in palace intrigue.
Presents a comprehensive biography on the life and military experiences of Napoleon Bonaparte and chronicles his childhood, motivation, accomplishments, as well as his impact on history.
During the reign of France's King Louis XIV, D'Artagnan and three musketeers unite to defend the honor of Anne of Austria against the plots of Cardinal Richeliu.
After her father's sudden death, fourteen-year-old Rose Rives finds that sixteenth-century France is a dangerous place for women, when some greedy, vindictive men charge her mother and others with being witches.
murder, infanticide and Satanism at the court of Louis XIV
Somerset, Anne
2004
Chronicles the events surrounding the black magic and poisoning scandal that enveloped France during the reign of Louis XIV, describing how high-standing members of society were tried and executed for witchcraft during the late seventeenth century.
Chronicles the life of eighteenth-century French queen Marie Antoinette, examining her reputation as the instigator of the French Revolution and attempting to present the real woman rather than historical stereotypes.
the regrouping of the French aristocracy after Louis XIV
Ford, Franklin L
1953
Describes the rise to power of the high noblesse de Robe--the personnel of the sovereign courts of France--after the death of Louis XIV, and the concurrent resurgence of the French aristocracy.
A graphic novel adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic tale about a young Frenchman, D'Artagnan, who travels to Paris in order to join the King's guard, the Musketeers, and is befriended by three of the Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.