1328-1589, house of valois

In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.

An illustrated biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English and was burned at the stake for witchcraft.

Explores the life of Joan of Arc, who helped to lead the French army against England during the One Hundred Years War and who eventually became a saint.

Presents the life of Joan of Arc, a devout Roman Catholic girl from France who led an army into battle and died for her beliefs.

In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.

In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.

Quasimodo, the reclusive bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, tries desparately to save the beautiful gypsy, Esmerelda--with whom he's fallen in love--from her unjust and untimely death.

Chronicles the life of Joan of Arc, focusing on how the young girl overcame great odds to become a heroine, martyr, and saint.

With the rampant slaughter of Huguenots at its peak and her beloved Marquis Fabien away on a privateering voyage, Rachelle Dusbane-Macquinet, a couturiere from one of France's foremost silk making families, welcomes the summons to return to Catherine de Medici's court and the opportunity to spy on the evil queen.

Rachelle Dusbane-Macquinet accompanies her grandmother, a famous couturiere, to Paris to create a silk trousseau for the Royal Princess Marguerite Valois, and becomes caught up in the intrigue at the Court, risking her life to warn the handsome Marquis Fabien de Vendome of a wicked plot against his family concocted by the regent, Catherine de Medici.