French Historical Fiction

The sizzling story of colonial America on the brink of revolution tells of a woman torn between the man she has promised to wed and the Irish-born renegade who has captured her heart. Now she must decide—promise or passion. Abandoning her pampered life in England to marry a man in America, Elizabeth Lawrence finds her new world shattered when her husband is killed in an accident after only a few months of marriage, leaving her in charge of a gun powder business on the untamed frontier. She hires an Irish-born man named O’Brian as foreman. Soon the sparks fly. She wanted to kiss his ...

So you want to play with magic? There’s trouble in the French Quarter when a professional basketball player hires Wyatt and voodoo mambo Mama Mulate to help him exorcise a supernatural demon. Wyatt is thrilled to have a paying client, Mama, over the moon in lust for the handsome athlete. Things look rosy for the pair of paranormal investigators until the assignment dictates Wyatt travel back in time to antebellum New Orleans. Thrust headfirst into the middle of a dangerous situation, Wyatt must deal with a red-haired Irish witch named Aisling and avoid becoming a haunted torture room ...

France, 1939: A talented singer, Ruth Lacroix has left Maine to live with her aunt and uncle, dreaming of performing at the Casino de Paris. But with the outbreak of war, and the heartbreaking news that her cousin has been killed by German forces, that goal is supplanted by another—to support France in any way she can.

Dans cet essai, Amin Maalouf, écrivain d'origine libanaise, élu à l'Académie française, propose une exploration d'une période bien connue en Occident, les Croisades, mais cette fois-ci du point de vue oriental. Depuis 1095 et durant près de deux siècles, les croisés occupent les villes et l'imaginaire des peuples de la Terre Sainte, dans des campagnes relevant à la fois de l'expansion militaire que de la mission divine, revendiquant les territoires sacrés tout en lynchant et pillant les territoires sur leur passage.

Des Esseintes, dernier descendant d'une noblesse épuisée, après avoir profité un temps des plaisirs d'une vaste fortune, ayant finalement asséché la veine des amitiés charnelles, des mondanités insipides et de l'exubérance juvénile décide, fébrile, de se retirer de Paris en un pavillon qu'il aménage en havre salutaire où il pourra se consacrer en paix à la lecture et aux raffinements des sens.

Growing up as the improper son of a wealthy white merchant and his Creole mistress, Randulet Thibodeaux is a street-savvy Southern boy who’s seen more prejudice and hardship than any boy should have to. When his younger brother dies in a tragic accident, Randulet realizes that he’s tougher than the devil by a damn sight, and he’s going to need to be tough to protect himself and his family from the workings of an underground bent on his destruction. As he does what he must to save himself from a plot contrived by greed and carried out by evil, he comes to understand that God has carved...

In the violent urban jungle of an alternate 1828 Paris, the French Revolution has failed and the city is divided between merciless royalty and nine underworld criminal guilds known as the Court of Miracles. Eponine (Nina) Thénardier is a talented cat burglar and member of the Thieves Guild. Nina's life is midnight robberies, avoiding her father's fists, and watching over her naïve adopted sister, Cosette (Ettie).

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Beauty and the beast with a twist!...will keep you reading until 3:00 am…One of my all-time favorites!”—Amazon customer. An English boy captured by the Mohawk is threatened when he returns to claim his title but picks the right woman as his wife and together they conquer his enemies as well as his terrifying past, enjoying the sweet redemption of true love. Flame-haired Lady Jilly Hollingsworth is not the wife his father chose for him, but Duncan Earl of Cleaves has been in the Colonies and doesn’t give a hoot about tradition so he marries her anyway. She is the only woman who can ...

"Mon oncle me disait : "Si une femme t'aimait, et si tu avais la présence d'esprit de mesurer l'étendue de ce privilège, aucune divinité ne t'arriverait à la cheville." Oran retenait son souffle en ce printemps 1962. La guerre engageait ses dernières folies. Je cherchais Emilie. J'avais peur pour elle. J'avais besoin d'elle. Je l'aimais et je revenais le lui prouver."

Quizá sea ésta la novela de aventuras más leída de la historia de la literatura. Un ilusionado joven originario de Gascuña, región francesa limítrofe con España, va a París con una carta de recomendación para convertirse en un mosquetero del rey. Su nombre es D’Artagnan. Nada más empezar su viaje debe desafiar a un misterioso caballero acompañado por una bella y misteriosa dama. En el momento que llega a París es retado a duelo por 3 mosqueteros Athos, Portos y Aramis, pero justo antes del momento en que van a empezar a batirse, les interrumpe la guardia del cardenal Richelieu.

Avec la mort de Charles IV le Bel s'éteint la dynastie capétienne. La branche Valois la remplace dans le ciel de France. Le comte Robert d'Artois anime ces années décisives pour l'Occident européen. Nul ne s'est dépensé plus que lui pour faire attribuer la couronne à son cousin Philippe de Valois. En échange, il attend qu'on lui rende le comté de ses aïeux.

From USA Today Bestselling Author, Uvi Poznansky, comes a memorable wartime love story: Fooling Nazi espionage may cost Lenny the trust of the girl who captured his heart. Will Natasha discover his secret D-Day reports, disguised as love letters to another woman? In these letters, Lenny gives the enemy misleading information about allied plans. Once Natasha arrives in London, he takes her for a ride on his Harley throughout England, from the White Cliffs of Dover to a village near an underground ammunition depot in Staffordshire. When he is wounded in a horrific explosion, she brings him ...

Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a disgraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age.

The year is 1795 and Napoleon Bonaparte is a Corsican serving in the French military. His personality is fire and ice personified -- passionate, temperamental, and pragmatic to the extreme. He is engaged to Desiree Clary, or Eugenie as he affectionately nicknamed her, but the allure of Parisian women poses a temptation to seek a more strategic alliance, one that will help connect him with prominent figures that may serve his rise to power. The tables are turned on him, however, when he meets Rose de Beauharnais, a beautiful and charming widow with two children. Rose intrigues him with her ...

When Darcie purchases several old suitcases at auction that had been abandoned in a railway station locker, she doesn't know what to expect. The first is disappointing but as she opens the second, she discovers rare and beautiful dresses for the 1940s, lovingly folded, and a notebook of designs to go with them. Written inside the cover is the name: Nathalie Leroux Why did she leave her most prized possessions at the station eighty years ago? Darcie's quest for answers will draw her into the world of the French resistance as she works to uncover the truth about a devastating wartime secret.

Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and a detachment of riflemen join the assault of a strong French force holding the Holy City of Santiago de Compostela.Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and a detachment of Riflemen are cut off from the rest of the army and surrounded. Their only hope of escape is to accept the help of the Spanish, but this assistance comes at a price: to join the assault on the holy city of Santiago de Compostela, held by a strong French force.

Maxence Étienne believes fiercely in the Revolution and longs for his name to be listed among the heroes bringing liberty to France. It’s been almost two years of non-stop war, but the monarchy has fallen, and he’s beginning to see the changes so many of his countrymen have fought for. With war still raging, Maxence is transferred from Paris to the port city of Nantes, a hotbed of counterrevolutionaries, to help stamp out rebellion against the new republic.

1945. Claire passe ses vacances en Écosse, où elle s'efforce d'oublier la Seconde Guerre mondiale auprès de son mari, tout juste rentré du front. Au cours d'une balade, la jeune femme est attirée par un mégalithe, auquel la population locale voue un culte étrange. Claire aura tôt fait d'en découvrir la raison : en s'approchant de la pierre, elle se volatilise pour atterrir au beau milieu d'un champ de bataille. Le menhir l'a menée tout droit en l'an de grâce 1743, au cœur de la lutte opposant Highlanders et Anglais.

Forced by bankruptcy and scandal into exile in France, Lord Waverly expects never to return to his homeland until, staggering home from a gaming hell in the wee hours of the morning, he encounters a young novice escaping from a convent. When she asks him to take her to England, promising him that her English grandfather will reward him handsomely for her safe conveyance, Waverly reluctantly agrees. Alas, Waverly soon realizes the enormity of his task.