france

Nineteenth-century novel about Emma Bovary, the wife of a provincial doctor who seeks to escape her boredom by indulging in romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs.

With the help of her fairy godmother, a kitchen maid mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, attends the palace ball where she meets the prince of her dreams.

When the little old lady claims she has no food to give him, a hungry young man proceeds to make a soup with a stone and water.

Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.

Traces the childhood and young adult years of the renowned French microbiologist whose interest in chemistry resulted in the process called pasteurization.

A fictionalized biography of eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, who remembers his boyhood and the events leading up to World War I, as he lies dying on a battlefield in France.

Introduces readers to the life and career of soccer star Kylian Mbapp?.

Beautiful, mysterious Vianne Rocher and her young daughter arrive in Lansquenet-sous-Tannes at the start of the Lenten season where she proceeds to set up a chocolate shop, much to the chagrin of the local priest.

In her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper.

Details the life of French writer Alexander Dumas's father General Alex Dumas, including his parentage, and describing how, after he was sold into bondage, Dumas made his way to Paris in time for the French Revolution.