france

Tells the story of Isabel Grameson, an upper-class Peruvian woman who in 1741 married Jean Godin, a member of a team of French mapmakers exploring South America, focusing on her three-thousand-mile trek down the length of the Amazon to reach her husband after they were separated on opposite sides of the continent--victims of international politics.

Presents a comprehensive study of Benjamin Franklin's eight-year mission to negotiate assistance from France to help finance America's war against England and examines his relationship with the French people and the monarchy and the impact he made upon society.

From her childhood in Martinique, Josephine knew that she would someday be "more than a queen," and she eventually fulfills her destiny at the side of Napoleon Bonaparte as Empress of the French.

While on a single-minded quest to catch an elusive giant trout, sixteen-year-old Lewis Hinton's life in a small Idaho town is turned upside-down when he learns that he is adopted and might be a descendant of French royalty.

Provides practical information, expert advice, and a variety of maps to help travelers get the most from their visit to France.

Diaries, letters, court documents, and memoirs help chronicle the life of Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France.

Places the life of the fifteenth-century girl who has become a French national symbol within the social, religious, and political context of her time.

Focuses on the social life and customs of people during the ten years of the French Revolution.

In 1943, with the surrender of Italy to the Allies, Corporal Vito Salvani finds himself and the orphaned Jewish boy Judah trapped in enemy territory in France, where they must flee from an obsessed Gestapo agent.

Covers the problems confronted by Churchill as he becomes Prime Minister, the Battle of France, the story of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, and the rebuilding of England's Army.