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    • Renaissance Queen of France
    • By: Leonie Frieda
    • Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 502 ratings
    • Poisoner, despot, necromancer - the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds....

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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 52 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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    • The Making of a French Queen
    • By: John Hardman
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen....

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    • The Scandal that Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern
    • By: Maurice Samuels
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of one of her closest advisors in this dramatic history of power and revolution....

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    • Soldier of Destiny
    • By: Michael Broers
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Written with great energy and authority - and using the newly available personal archives of Napoleon himself - the first volume of a majestic two-part biography of the great French emperor and conqueror....

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    • A Life of the Empress
    • By: Carolly Erickson
    • Narrated by: Davina Porter
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Popular biographer Carolly Erickson creates intimate and richly detailed portraits of her historical subjects. In this book she offers a provocative new perspective on Josephine and her fabled marriage to Napoleon......

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    • The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte
    • By: Kate Williams
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • The tale of Napoleon and Josephine is one of the most famous love stories in the world....

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    • The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
    • By: Mary Hollingsworth
    • Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge, Sophie Hunter
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • History is rarely kind to women of power, but few have had their reputations quite so brutally shredded as Catherine de’ Medici, Italian-born queen of France and influential mother of three successive French kings.

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    • The Maker of Modern France
    • By: Leonie Frieda
    • Narrated by: Carole Boyd
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • Catherine de Medici's father-in-law, King Francis of France, was the perfect Renaissance knight, the movement's exemplar and its Gallic interpreter. An aesthete, a diplomat par excellence....

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    • The Journey
    • By: Antonia Fraser
    • Narrated by: Donada Peters
    • Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 564 ratings
    • France's iconic queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake", was alternately revered and reviled during her lifetime....

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    • Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom
    • By: Nancy Goldstone
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-23-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 802 ratings
    • Catherine de' Medici was a ruthless pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the throne for 30 years....

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    • A Life
    • By: Adam Zamoyski
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 27 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 526 ratings
    • The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment and what he was seeking to achieve....

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    • The Life of Henry II in Five Acts
    • By: Claudia Gold
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Henry so famed during his lifetime has slipped into the shadows of history. King of the North Wind offers a fresh evaluation of this great yet tragic ruler....

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    • Royalty Biography, Book 6
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Chance Hartman
    • Series: Royalty Biography
    • Length: 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Although he didn’t create absolutism in France, King Louis XIV seemed to embody the divine right of kings better than anyone had before him. Louis XIV directly correlated his own private good with that of the public good....

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    • The Power and the Glory
    • By: Josephine Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • This stylish and incisive narrative presents listeners with a fresh perspective on one of the most fascinating kings in European history. Louis XIV's story has all the ingredients of a Dumas classic....

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    • Marie Antoinette Series, Book 3
    • By: Juliet Grey
    • Narrated by: Juliet Grey
    • Series: Marie Antoinette, Book 3
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • A novel for fans of Philippa Gregory and Michelle Moran, Confessions of Marie Antoinette blends rich historical detail with searing drama, bringing to life the first years of the French Revolution and the final days of the legendary French queen....

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    • The Life of Marie Antoinette
    • By: Carolly Erickson
    • Narrated by: Davina Porter
    • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • To this day Marie Antoinette remains one of history’s most misunderstood heroines...

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    • A Novel of Marie Antoinette (Marie Antoinette Series, Book 2)
    • By: Juliet Grey
    • Narrated by: Juliet Grey
    • Series: Marie Antoinette, Book 2
    • Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A captivating novel of rich spectacle and royal scandal, Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow spans fifteen years in the fateful reign of Marie Antoinette, France's most legendary and notorious queen....

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    • By: Carolly Erickson
    • Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 702 ratings
    • Josephine's life story was as turbulent as the age, an era of revolution and social upheaval....

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