Renaissance France
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Catherine de Medici
- Renaissance Queen of France
- By: Leonie Frieda
- Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
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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 - from a troubled childhood in Florence to her marriage to Henry, son of King Francis I of France; from her transformation of French culture to her fight to protect her throne and her sons' birthright. Based on thousands of private letters, it is a remarkable account of one of the most influential women to wear a crown.
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Narrator didn't get one name right
- By Georgina García- Menocal on 09-15-19
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Catherine de Medici
- Renaissance Queen of France
- Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-16-18
- Language: English
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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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Anne and Louis
- Passion and Politics in Early Renaissance France, Part II of the Anne of Brittany Series
- By: Rozsa Gaston
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is the love of King Louis XII of France's life. Too bad he's already married. While his annulment proceedings create Europe's most sensational scandal of 1498, Anne returns to Brittany to take back control of her duchy that her late husband, Charles VIII, King of France, had wrested from her. At age 21, Anne is sovereign ruler of Brittany as well as Europe's most wealthy widow. But can she maintain Brittany's independence from France if she accepts Louis's offer to make her Queen of France once more?
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Anne and Louis
- Passion and Politics in Early Renaissance France, Part II of the Anne of Brittany Series
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Series: Anne of Brittany, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 07-30-19
- Language: English
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Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is the love of King Louis XII of France's life. Too bad he's already married. While his annulment proceedings create Europe's most sensational scandal of 1498, Anne returns to Brittany to take back control of her duchy....
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The Rival Queens
- 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
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Catherine de' Medici was a ruthless pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the throne for 30 years. Her youngest daughter, Marguerite, the glamorous "Queen Margot," was a passionate free spirit, the only adversary whom her mother could neither intimidate nor control.
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Definitely not a dull bio!
- By Nella on 07-04-15
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The Rival Queens
- Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 06-23-15
- Language: English
- Catherine de' Medici was a ruthless pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the throne for 30 years....
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Sense of Touch
- Love and Duty at Anne of Brittany's Court
- By: Rozsa Gaston
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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◆ 2017 RONE Book Award finalist ◆ 2018 TopShelf Indie Book Awards finalist for Women's Issues Bound by love. Separated by duty. Their future hangs on a queen's promise. Fifteen-year-old Nicole serves Anne of Brittany, Queen of France as a lady-in-waiting at the royal court. Bestowed with a gift of healing touch and herbs, she reluctantly awaits an arranged marriage to a noble suitor. But when she meets Philippe, a young horse trainer breaking in one of the queen’s stallions, a spark ignites between them. When the horse’s ankle becomes infected, Nicole uses her healing skills to ...
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Sense of Touch
- Love and Duty at Anne of Brittany's Court
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 02-27-24
- Language: English
- ◆ 2017 RONE Book Award finalist ◆ 2018 TopShelf Indie Book Awards finalist for Women's Issues Bound by love. Separated by duty. Their future ...
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Marguerite and Gaston
- The Secret Love of Marguerite d'Angoulême and Gaston de Foix: a short story
- By: Rozsa Gaston
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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She turned down Henry Tudor. But would she be allowed to marry the man she loved? A 100-page short story based on the historical record of two famed Renaissance royals of the French court. In 1509 Marguerite d’Angoulême of the royal House of Valois is the King of France’s most valuable unmarried asset. Gaston de Foix is France’s most promising young knight, eager to prove himself on the King’s Italian campaigns. Fanned by chivalric ideals of courtly love, Marguerite and Gaston burn for each other with a secret flame. When Gaston learns that the King intends to marry Marguerite to ...
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Marguerite and Gaston
- The Secret Love of Marguerite d'Angoulême and Gaston de Foix: a short story
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 03-01-24
- Language: English
- She turned down Henry Tudor. But would she be allowed to marry the man she loved? A 100-page short story based on the historical record of two ...
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The Serpent Queen
- Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
- By: Leonie Frieda
- Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
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The best-selling revisionist biography of one of the great women of the 16th century. Orphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune. Married at 14 to the future Henri II of France, she was constantly humiliated by his influential mistress, Diane de Poitiers. When her husband died as a result of a duelling accident in Paris, Catherine was made queen regent during the short reign of her eldest son (married to Mary Queen of Scots, and like many of her children he died young).
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The Serpent Queen
- Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
- Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-04-18
- Language: English
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The best-selling revisionist biography of one of the great women of the 16th century. Orphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune....
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Versailles
- The History and Legacy of France's Most Famous Royal Palace
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
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In every nation, in every era of history, there are inevitably one or two places that become the symbol of the times. Mention Valley Forge to an American and it will immediately conjure up visions of a hard won fight for freedom. Likewise, the word Dunkirk said to a Briton will elicit a sense of both pride and horror at the lives lost and saved at that desperate point in World War II. For the French, and those who study their history, Versailles is a symbol of, as Charles Dickens once put it, "the best of times...the worst of times."
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Great story of the palace.
- By Dogs, Cats, and Kids on 01-22-23
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Versailles
- The History and Legacy of France's Most Famous Royal Palace
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Release date: 02-27-17
- Language: English
- In every nation, in every era of history, there are inevitably one or two places that become the symbol of the times....
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Écoute Audio - La Renaissance en France. 5/2019
- Französisch lernen Audio - Die Renaissance in Frankreich
- By: div.
- Narrated by: div.
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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In "Écoute Audio 5/2019" geht es in die Vergangenheit. Frankreich feiert 500 Jahre Renaissance: 1519 wurde mit dem Bau des prächtigen Schlosses Chambord begonnen und 1519 starb Leonardo da Vinci. Gastronomisch beschäftigen wir uns mit der Frage, welches "ausländische" Gericht den Franzosen das liebste ist. Und wir nehmen das château fort unter die Lupe, ein "Schloss" das so ganz anders ist als Chambord.
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Écoute Audio - La Renaissance en France. 5/2019
- Französisch lernen Audio - Die Renaissance in Frankreich
- Narrated by: div.
- Series: Écoute Audio 2019, Book 5
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 04-12-19
- Language: German
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In "Écoute Audio 5/2019" geht es in die Vergangenheit. Frankreich feiert 500 Jahre Renaissance: 1519 wurde mit dem Bau des prächtigen Schlosses Chambord...
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A Short History of Europe
- From Pericles to Putin
- By: Simon Jenkins
- Narrated by: Simon Jenkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Europe is an astonishingly successful place. In this dazzling new history, best-selling author Simon Jenkins grippingly tells the story of its evolution from warring peoples to peace, wealth and freedom - a story that twists and turns from Greece and Rome, through the Dark Ages, the Reformation and the French Revolution, to the Second World War and up to the present day. Jenkins takes in leaders from Julius Caesar and Joan of Arc to Wellington and Angela Merkel as well as cultural figures from Aristotle to Shakespeare and Picasso.
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Excellent
- By O. Buraimoh on 06-01-23
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A Short History of Europe
- From Pericles to Putin
- Narrated by: Simon Jenkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 11-08-18
- Language: English
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Despite the importance of Europe's politics, economy and culture, there has not been - until now - a concise book to tell this story....
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City of Wisdom and Blood
- Fortunes of France: Book 2
- By: Robert Merle
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
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Montpellier in 1566 - only fools walk the streets at night unarmed while a profession of faith in the wrong company can lead to a knife in the back. Not even this proud city of philosophers is safe from the menaces that endanger the peace of France. The city militia are struggling to contend with the lawlessness and religious hatred that threaten to tear the whole country in two.
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Brilliant performance.
- By mike daly on 09-16-20
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City of Wisdom and Blood
- Fortunes of France: Book 2
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Series: Fortunes of France, Book 2
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 10-29-15
- Language: English
- Montpellier in 1566 - only fools walk the streets at night unarmed while a profession of faith in the wrong company can lead to a knife in the back....
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Magnificent Rebels
- The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
- By: Andrea Wulf
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
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In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into tyranny, what they wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the mind. The rulers of Europe had ordered their peoples how to think and act for too long. Based in the small German town of Jena, through poetry, drama, philosophy and science, they transformed the way we think about ourselves and the world around us. They were the first Romantics.
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Magnificent Rebels
- The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 09-01-22
- Language: English
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Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a revolutionary group of friends based in the small German town of Jena whose modern ideas transformed society and the way we lead our lives today....
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Blenheim
- Battle for Europe
- By: Charles Spencer
- Narrated by: Charles Spenser
- Length: 6 hrs
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By the summer of 1704, Louis XIV's vast armies dominated Europe. France defeated every alliance formed against her and Louis was poised to extend his frontier to the Rhine and install a French prince on the throne of Spain. Two men saved Europe from French military domination: the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy. Marlborough masterminded a brilliant campaign, working with Eugene to surprise the French invaders inside Germany.
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Brilliant Narrative History
- By Amazon Customer on 01-22-24
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Blenheim
- Battle for Europe
- Narrated by: Charles Spenser
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 08-09-06
- Language: English
- By the summer of 1704, Louis XIV's vast armies dominated Europe....
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The Prince Who Would Be King
- The Life and Death of Henry Stuart
- By: Sarah Fraser
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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In 1610 Henry Stuart was a celebrity throughout Europe, at a momentous period for European history and culture. Eldest son of James VI and the epitome of heroic Renaissance princely virtue, his life was set against a period about as rich as any. The King James Bible, religious tension throughout Europe, the Gunpowder plot, Jacobean theatre and the dark tragedies pouring from Shakespeare's quill, innovation in learning and science, exploration and trade and the bloody traumas of the Thirty Years' War were his backdrop.
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The Prince Who Would Be King
- The Life and Death of Henry Stuart
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 05-04-17
- Language: English
- Henry Stuart's life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirty Years' War and the huge changes taking place across Europe in 17th-century society....
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