restoration, 1814-1830

Chronicles the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte's empire, describing the men and women who helped shape his empire and discussing the impact Napoleon had on world history.

In nineteenth-century France a reformed ex-convict, Jean Baljean, finds himself threatened by events and people from his past.

Presents an English translation of the nineteenth-century French novel about Jean Valjean, a peasant who is released from prison, where he spent nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread for his starving family, only to find himself threatened by people and events from his past.