1815-1914

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1815-1914

Marie, dancing

2005
A fictionalized autobiography of Marie Van Goethem, the impoverished student from the Paris Opera ballet school who became the model for Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, "The Little Dancer.".

The beautiful and the cursed

Residing in a desolate abbey protected by gargoyles, two beautiful teenaged sisters in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Paris discover deadly and otherworldly truths as they search for their missing brother.

Napoleon and the Hundred Days

2005
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.

A club in Montmartre

an encounter with Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
2006
After a beggar girl rescues the drunken, severely deformed French painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, he introduces her to his studio, the nightlife of Montmartre, and the cancan dancers at the Moulin Rouge club.

Les mis?rables

1964
In nineteenth-century France a reformed ex-convict, Jean Baljean, finds himself threatened by events and people from his past.

Les mis?rables

1982
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.

The Count of Monte Cristo

2010
A graphic adaptation of the classic Dumas novel about Edmond Dant?s who escapes after many years of false imprisonment and, in the guise of the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, proceeds to exact his revenge on those responsible for his incarceration.

Garibaldi

invention of a hero
2007
Examines the life and military experiences of nineteenth-century Italian revolutionary leader, Giuseppe Garibaldi.

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