French Biography

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    • The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
    • By: R. R. Palmer, Isser Woloch - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France....

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    • Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50
    • By: Agnes Poirier
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • In this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and ultimately triumphant eras, Agnes Poirier unspools the stories of the poets, writers, painters, and philosophers whose lives collided to extraordinary effect between 1940 and 1950....

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    • The Last Queen of France
    • By: Evelyne Lever
    • Narrated by: Lorna Raver
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Married for political reasons at the age of fourteen, Marie Antoinette was naive, impetuous, and ill-equipped for the role in which history cast her....

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    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • In this gripping biography, acclaimed author Harlow Giles Unger paints an intimate portrait of the heroic young French soldier who, at 19, renounced a life of luxury in Paris and Versailles to fight and bleed for liberty - at Brandywine, Valley Forge, and Yorktown....

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    • By: Sarah Turnbull
    • Narrated by: Caroline Lee
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 188 ratings
    • After backpacking her way around Europe journalist Sarah Turnbull is ready to embark on one last adventure before heading home to Sydney....

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    • Julia Child's Second Act
    • By: Alex Prud'homme
    • Narrated by: Alex Prud'homme
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Julia Child is synonymous with French cooking, but her legacy runs much deeper. Now, her great-nephew recounts the myriad ways in which she profoundly shaped how we eat today....

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    • My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir
    • By: Justus Rosenberg
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • In 1937, as the Nazis gained control and anti-Semitism spread in the Free City of Danzig, a majority German city on the Baltic Sea, 16-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent to Paris to finish his education in safety. Three years later, France fell to the Germans....

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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 707 ratings
    • Josephine's life story was as turbulent as the age, an era of revolution and social upheaval....

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    • Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation
    • By: Francois Furstenberg
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions....

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    • By: George R. Elford
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 601 ratings
    • The personal account of a guerrilla fighter in the French Foreign Legion reveals the Nazi Battalion's inhumanities to Indochinese villagers....

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    • Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris
    • By: Ann Mah
    • Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • The memoir of a young diplomat's wife who must reinvent her dream of living in Paris - one dish at a time....

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    • How Empowering Women Changes the World
    • By: Melinda French Gates
    • Narrated by: Melinda French Gates
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5,888 ratings
    • How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings - and especially for women? Because, when you lift up women, you lift up humanity. For the last 20 years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live....

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    • By: Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,304 ratings
    • In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found "her true calling"....

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    • One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
    • By: Pamela Druckerman
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,524 ratings
    • The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children is here....

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    • Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time: A Memoir
    • By: Jane Bertch
    • Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • When Jane Bertch was seventeen, her mother took her on a graduation trip to Paris. Thrilled to use her high school French, Jane found her halting attempts greeted with withering condescension by every waiter and shopkeeper she encountered....

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    • Up Close and Personal with Britain’s Most Dangerous Criminals
    • By: Jonathan Levi, Emma French
    • Narrated by: Karl Jenkinson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For more than 150 years, it has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous, and psychopathic....

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    • By: Dawn French
    • Narrated by: Liza Tarbuck
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 385 ratings
    • A sharp eye for detail and a wicked ear for the absurdities of life, Dawn French shows just how an RAF girl from the West Country dreaming of becoming a ballerina/bridesmaid/thief rose to become one of the best-loved comedy actresses of our time.

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    • Julia Child Becomes the "French Chef"
    • By: Alex Prud'Homme, Sarah Green - illustrator
    • Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
    • Length: 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Julia Child was born hungry, but she was not born a chef. In fact, Julia didn’t discover her passion for cooking until she had a life-changing luncheon in France and became determined to share her newfound love of food with everyone....

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    • By: Nancy Wake
    • Narrated by: Christine Jeffery
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 263 ratings
    • Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling....

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