The second volume of this innovative and thrilling tale.
Diverging from official History, from our school books, this is the French Revolution as seen from the inside.
“Gallo is a wonderful storyteller of History.”
L’Express
“A lively style and an acute sense of the historical dramatization.”
La Nouvelle Revue d’Histoire
“A brilliant, fascinating analysis of the Revolution. It’s simple, genuine Max Gallo.”
La Provence
“A brilliant piece of work about the History of our country”
France Dimanche
“Max Gallo paints us a picture of the disintegration of power and the birth of a new world, one that wants to bring peace, but brings war in a river of blood (…) this upheaval is fascinating. It is the novel of our History”
Ouest France
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Diverging from official History, from school books, this is the French Revolution as seen from the inside. An innovative and thrilling tale. In 1774, with great acclaim, a young king mounts the ...
Max Gallo
1914 & 1918: two crucial years during which the fate of the World was played out In 14 as in 18, the Germans are less than sixty kilometers from Paris. Each time, the patriotism and the ...
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A MASTERLY BIOGRAPHY Victor Hugo is a great, immense writer. The entire world knows him. But what do we know of the man, the spouse, the lover? And firstly of the child, torn between his father ...
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The Russian Revolution as has never been told before At the end of December 1916, Rasputin had issued this warning to Tsar Nicolas II: “Not one member of your family will live longer than ...
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Ten Years of Passion, Fever and Terror With French Revolution we experience the events from the inside. Much differently than in our childhood schoolbooks; a groundbreaking and founding narrative ...
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The terrible destiny of Henry the Fourth, the King they wanted dead. A gripping tale. He is the King of France and of Navarre who had hoped to overcome dissentions and permit Catholics and ...
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The astonishing portrait of one of the « fathers of Europe » depicted through the eloquent writing of Max Gallo. When the time came to place his soul into the hands of the Lord, Charlemagne felt ...
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Max Gallo tells the true story of Richelieu, a legendary character and a great builder of French unity. Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu should never have become Cardinal. Devoted to a ...
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He was king as soon as he turned five, and he reigned until he reached the age of seventy seven. He was admired and well liked. He pushed back the frontiers of France. He was without mercy with ...
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A vibrant chronicle that draw our attention upon historical recurrence Max Gallo, after Jesus, the Man who was God (more than 120,000 sold copies), drags us into the most novelized tale of one ...
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At the turn of the 16th century the world is fascinated by the city of Florence. The Republic, under the rule of the Medici, is envied for its prosperity, its splendor but also its intrigues. Two ...
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The renowned historian whose books consistently sell over 100,000 copies in France brings us a stunning new historical narrative. 25 January 1515. Francis I is crowned in St. Denis. As early as ...
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With his concise and scintillating pen, Max Gallo guides us, along with Galla Placidia, the last roman Empress and Attila the Hun, through the very last glory days of the empire that had ...
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The Story of Saint Genevieve, the young woman who stood up against the Huns. 51. Gaul is under threat. Heading up a huge army, Attila has just destroyed Metz. Paris is on his path of invasion and ...
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Following 1914, Max Gallo concludes his account of the First World War. The author recounts these terrible years sealed Europe’s future and the outcome of this conflict which changed the world ...
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For the first time, renowned historian Max Gallo reveals his life through an exceptional autobiography. This autobiography reads like a novel – a novel of initiation. A history book, a tale of ...
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D-Day is close. Freedom is close. At least, this is what the French are hoping in January 1944. But the path to the fall of the Third Reich is still long. Max Gallo tells the story of this march ...
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On the occasion of the 600th anniversary of Joan of Arc’s birth in January 2012, Max Gallo tells the incredible and epic story of this extraordinary young woman. “Jeanne is a young woman barely ...
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All Max Gallo’s powers of bringing a story and all its subleties to life were needed to tell the tale of one of the greatest mysteries of the world: Jesus, man or God, God and man… On ...
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For the 90th anniversary of the signing of the armistice of World War I, a commemorative album, a collection of exceptional archives, for the most part yet unpublished This exceptional album ...
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The untold story of king Louis The Great Max Gallo takes us back to Louis XIV’s side, into his thoughts, to show us his humanity. He tells us all about the future king’s tormented ...
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A popular biography in which Max Gallo explores with his usual talent and passion this fascinating and ambitious man, his love and sensual pleasure as well as thirst of power and glory.
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The fascinating portrait of a major author of French literature, who because of his political slant and his controversial writings, was also a prominent 19th Century figure.
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The destiny of six families marked by conspiracies and threats going back to the dark days of September 1972 up until the end of the 20th Century.
Frédéric Mitterrand
Brad Pitt’s astounding career told with Frederic Mitterrand’s verve and talent «BRAD» is the story of a handsome kid from Missouri who arrives in Hollywood in the mid-eighties with three hundred ...
Frédéric Mitterrand
After the “cowardly relief” of the Munich agreement, Hitler sends his foreign affairs minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to Paris on the 6th of December to sign a “good neighbour” agreement. ...
Jean Testanière
As a child, Jean is already different from the others. Is this due to the early death of his father or to his extremely sensitive and dreamy character? In the sixth grade, he amazes his ...
Nadia Volf
Doctor, international lecturer with multiple degrees in Acupuncture, Nadia Volf helps us overcome problems and open to life with joy. When events hurtle down on us like squalls in a storm, ...
Linda
“I’m not a prostitute, I’m a little girl from the Ardennes who got lost. I am a woman, a mother with a heart and a soul, who prostituted herself for 50 years.“ Linda is 77 years old today. She ...
Nicolas Bouzou
«Health is a deeply human affair!» More than 10,000 years ago, healthcare was frequently practiced. Our distant ancestors invented the art of dentistry, performed surgery and amputations, could ...
When your dreams are bigger than yourself, happiness is possible… Jamila is born on a council estate with dreams bigger than herself. She quickly comes to realise, however, that her family ...
Valérie Portheret
As she flicked through the entry-and-exit records of children taken into a chateau in the Drôme region of France during the Second World War, Valérie Portheret’s attention was seized by a detail: ...
François-Guillaume Lorrain
How did the young Louis become the Sun King, the monarch under whom France’s grandeur shone so dazzlingly? The childhood of Louis XIV was both unhappy and romantic. Crushed by his teachers, ...
Frédéric Mitterrand
On 2nd December 1851, the President of the Republic, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, breaches the constitution and arrogates all powers to himself before proclaiming himself emperor. A man has been ...
Luc Besson
“I’m going to tell you a story. My story. Close-to, without reflection or pretence. With the voice and the thoughts I had as a child. Nothing but the raw truth as I lived it and before it was ...
They were two but made only one. José Frèches believed that they had eternity before them. But on November 29, 2011, at the age of 61, he had to say goodbye to his twin. That day, he thought he ...
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