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    • How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
    • By: Deborah Cadbury
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Louis-Charles, Duc de Normandie, enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the dauphin, heir to the most powerful throne in Europe. Yet within five years he was to lose everything....

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    • Year of Revolution
    • By: Mike Rapport
    • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
    • Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had kept peace on the continent since Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 - but which in many countries had also suppressed dreams of national freedom....

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    • Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
    • By: Yuval Levin
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Author Yuval Levin explores the roots of the left/right political divide in America by examining the views of the men who best represented each side at its origin: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine....

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    • By: Alexandre Dumas
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Series: The Marie Antoinette Romances, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In 1785, a sensational trial known as the Affair of the Diamond Necklace began in Paris that would divide the country and captivate Europe. The Queen’s Necklace, loosely based on the Affair, is Alexandre Dumas’ take on the royal scandal....

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    • A Concise Biography
    • By: David A. Bell
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context....

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    • From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Helena Rosenblatt
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry - and a term of derision - in today's increasingly divided public square....

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    • The History and Legacy of the Massive Social Uprisings Across Europe
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Daniel Houle
    • Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The year 1815 marked the beginning of a time of repression in Europe. Napoleon Bonaparte had been defeated at Waterloo and sent to the remote South Atlantic island of Saint Helena, the torrent of blood unleashed by the French Revolution had finally run dry....

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    • Lafayette Reconsidered
    • By: Laura Auricchio
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 234 ratings
    • A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution....

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    • By: Edmund Burke
    • Narrated by: Matt Addis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Written in the form of a letter to a Frenchman, Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France is an impassioned attack on the French Revolution and its hasty destruction of the Church, the old elites, and the Crown....

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    • On Political Reaction
    • By: Mark Lilla
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us....

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    • By: Thomas Paine
    • Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man is unquestionably one of the great classics on the subject of democracy....

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    • A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
    • By: William Doyle
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolors....

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    • The Giants Who Made Our World
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Steve West
    • Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • In this inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories, Simon Sebag Montefiore - one of our preeminent historians and a prizewinning writer - presents the giant characters who have changed the course of world history....

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    • By: Charles Dickens
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 295 ratings
    • Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities is a sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris with a complex plot portraying the results of terror and treason, love and supreme sacrifice....

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    • By: Thomas Paine
    • Narrated by: Robin Field
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 486 ratings
    • This passionate and engaging recording of Paine’s classic is as certain to provoke modern listeners to thought as it did his original audience....

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    • By: Timothy Tackett
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights....

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    • By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    • Narrated by: Neville Jason
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. In The Social Contract, Rousseau explores the concept of freedom and the political structures....

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    • Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon
    • By: Alexandre Dumas
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 35 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • The story of France from the Renaissance to the 19th century, as Dumas vibrantly retold it in his numerous enormously popular novels, has long been absent one vital, richly historical era....

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    • The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More: Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
    • By: Karen Prior
    • Narrated by: Christine Stevens
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain's upper classes, and taught a nation how to read....

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