French Historical Fiction

"Don Quichotte" est sans doute le roman espagnol le plus connu et le plus lu au monde. Sa publication remonte à 1605 pour la première partie et 1615 pour la seconde. Le récit se présente comme le fruit de recherches en archive et l'auteur s'invite volontiers dans la narration, ce qui en fait un roman moderne, considéré comme précurseur. Les aventures de Don Quichotte de la Manche décrivent un héros tour à tour comique, touchant, rêveur, fabuleux et courageux, qui est devenu aujourd'hui un véritable archétype littéraire.

Japan has bombed Sydney Harbour. Sixteen-year-old Ossie lies about his age to protect his country, even though it means abandoning his only family, a one-eyed dog named Lucky. Kind-hearted Mrs Plum is already looking after forty-six dogs for soldiers. She's becoming desperate because there are no wartime rations for dogs. Help arrives when thirteen-year-old Kat Murphy volunteers to take Lucky and persuades the girls at her school to also help. As Kat grows to love Lucky, she realises he can still see his master.

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.

A Scottish bond servant escorts his lady on an exotic adventure to recover her family’s lost gold treasure and gives her passionate ecstasy and the destiny of a brighter tomorrow. “Full of adventure with many twists and turns!"—Frances Trainor, Romantic Times HER HIGHLAND BOND SERVANT Rake, outlaw, and runaway, Kincaid is just the man to accompany Lady Elizabeth Lacy Bennett on her willful adventure to get back the lost family treasure she so desperately needs to save her plantation from going bankrupt. HER INCAN WARRIOR GHOST SPIRIT Lady Elizabeth Lacy Bennett has witch powers, ...

Basada en hechos reales, Amelio, mi coronel rescata del olvido a uno de los personajes más apasionantes y singulares de la revolución mexicana, quien con rebeldía rompió los moldes de la época. Una novela que nos recuerda que el destino se forja, aunque sea a balazos.

1968. À la mort de son mari, Claire Beauchamp emmène sa fille en Écosse, sur les lieux mêmes où, vingt ans plus tôt, elle a vécu d'extraordinaires aventures... Des aventures qui, dans ce second tome, vont conduire Claire et Jamie dans le Paris du siècle des Lumières. Leur but ? Empêcher Charles-Eduard Stuart d'accéder au trône, un événement qui marquerait le début d'une répression sanglante dans les Highlands.

As the St Clair family prepare for the wedding of their daughter, Clarice, at the great country house of Montmichel, trouble is brewing. Their younger daughter, Helene, became friends with orphaned Annette during the terrible events of the 1871 siege of Paris. Now they are reunited, with Annette working below stairs for Helene's parents. But Annette is hiding a dangerous secret, which Helene has promised to keep at all costs.

La France de 1834 est une poudrière. Sourde à la colère du peuple, la monarchie réprime de plus en plus durement les émeutes qui gagnent le pays. À Paris, au milieu de la nuit du 14 avril, l'armée abat les habitants d'un immeuble situé au 12 de la rue Transnonain. Un repaire d'insurgés ? Les victimes sont pourtant des vieillards, des femmes, des enfants… Une paire de bas gît au fond d'un des lits taché de sang ; ils appartiennent à une fille des rues portée disparue. Elle sait. Le préfet de police lance l'agent Joseph Lutz sur sa trace.

Inspired by the chaos of the French Revolution, Rafael Sabatini wrote one of the finest historical novels of the early 20th century. Scaramouche is the story of André-Louis Moreau, a lawyer brought up as an orphan in a noble household. Moreau, as a young man in his 20s, has been threading his way through a pleasant life until a close friend is brutally killed in a duel of swords by a member of the aristocracy. Because of Moreau’s vow to seek revenge, his life begins an arc toward becoming a revolutionary.

From Ireland to Australia, past to present, a family saga of truth, lies, love and intrigue. Until you’re asked, you may never tell... Lucie Woods is honest, isn’t she? It turns out, like so many others, that she’s been lying to herself for a very long time. When an incident occurs at her children’s school, it sets in motion a string of events that sees her life torn apart at the seams. Karma acts fast, barely giving her a moment to breathe before delivering a string of gifts, if you can call them that. Bad things usually happen in threes, but when her misfortune reaches beyond this...

A Tale of Two Cities, one of Charles Dickens' most popular works, is highly recognized for its opening line, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." The two cities of the title are Paris and London; the time is the height of the French Revolution. From the gripping opening scene of the coach drive to the heroic climax in the shadow of the guillotine, Dickens creates a vivid picture of social turmoil and the unfolding of a dramatic love story.

When her favourite beech tree is felled in a storm, Ann feels as if someone has died. But when long-hidden seed packets are found inside the trunk, Ann realizes there are more memories than her own lurking within the ancient tree. A century earlier, head gardener William Hatherwick and Hester Mordaunt, mistress of Beechgrave, share a love for the mighty estate - and an undeclared love for each other. But when war breaks out, William is sent to the battlefields of France, and as the conflict rages on, Hester grieves beneath the tree.

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.

1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with dissent rife, France’s neighbours are on high alert. Unprecedented industrial change sweeps the land, making the lives of the workers in Kingbridge’s prosperous cloth mills a misery. Rampant modernization and dangerous new machinery are rendering jobs obsolete and tearing families apart. Now, as international conflict nears, a story of a small group of Kingsbridge people will come to define the struggle of a generation.

A spoiled English Lady rebels against the half-Native American half-English sea smuggler forced to be her husband and they discover the thrill of impetuous passion. Smuggled aboard a ship bound for the colonies, the English lady Keely Bartholomew is ill-prepared for life in America, much less the devilish half-breed captain Brock Forrester. This man, the illegitimate son of a Lenni-Lenape man and an English woman, is used to having his own way. When the tall, brawny, mixed-race man caresses her and holds her in his massive arms, looking at her with eyes as black as night, the heiress is ...

Partez pour un voyage inoubliable et plongez dans un grand roman d’aventure et d’amour où les livres, les bibliothèques et la connaissance sont les clés de la sauvegarde de l’humanité.

In the early spring morning light, shortly after seven o’clock, the body looked like a pile of debris covered by brown and black leaves left over from the previous autumn. A decorated war hero with severe amnesia sustained twelve years before, Clifford Dumont has remained lost in the middle of his life until unexpected events challenge him to confront his suppressed fears and the black wall of his past. When he finds the dead body of his co-worker, Jean-Paul, at a national historical battlefield, Clifford is jarred out of his day-to-day routines. His complacency is further challenged by ...

Faisant suite au "Roi de fer", "La Reine étranglée" commence au lendemain même de la mort de Philippe le Bel. Un prince de faible caractère, Louis X le Hutin, dont l'épouse, Marguerite de Bourgogne, est emprisonnée pour adultère, succède à un monarque exceptionnel. Tandis que la chrétienté attend un pape et que le peuple meurt de faim, les rivalités, les intrigues, les complots vont déchirer la cour de France et conduire barons, prélats, banquiers, et le roi lui-même, au fond d'une impasse dont ils ne pourront sortir que par le crime.

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).

Automne 1830, dans un Paris fiévreux encore sous le choc des Journées révolutionnaires de juillet, le gouvernement de Louis-Philippe, nouveau roi des Français, tente de juguler une opposition divisée mais virulente. Valentin Verne, jeune inspecteur du service des mœurs, est muté à la brigade de Sûreté fondée quelques années plus tôt par le fameux Vidocq. Il doit élucider une série de morts étranges susceptible de déstabiliser le régime. Car la science qui progresse, mêlée à l'ésotérisme alors en vogue, inspire un nouveau type de criminalité.