French Biography

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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 31 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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    • Living in a Small Village in Brittany
    • By: Mark Greenside
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Beville
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In a playful, headlong style, and with enormous affection for the Bretons, Greenside shares how he makes a life for himself in a country where he doesn't speak the language or understand the culture....

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    • A Year of the Good Life
    • By: Janine Marsh
    • Narrated by: Susan Duerden
    • Series: The Good Life France, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • A little over 10 years ago, Janine Marsh and her husband gave up their careers in London to chase the good life in the countryside of northern France. Janine is now the go-to expat in the area for those seeking to get to grips with a very different way of life....

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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 557 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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    • 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 192 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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    • 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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    • By: J. Christopher Herold
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Napoleon Bonaparte's rise from common origins to the pinnacle of power, as well as his defeat at Waterloo, still influences our daily lives....

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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 91 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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    • Eating and Drinking from Champagne to Provence
    • By: Edward Behr
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Edward Behr investigates French cuisine and what it means, in encounters from Champagne to Provence. He tells of French artisans and chefs who continue to work at the highest level....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 178 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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    • A Military Life
    • By: Edward G. Lengel
    • Narrated by: Jack Garrett
    • Length: 20 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • This comprehensive military biography of George Washington entertainingly examines Washington's capacity as a military leader....

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    • In Combat with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1945, and with the French in Indochina 1951-54
    • By: Paul Martelli, Vittorino dal Cengio - with
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • This is the riveting true story of Paul Martelli, a 15-year-old German-Italian who fought in Pomerania, on the Eastern Front, in 1945 as a member of the 33rd Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Charlemagne" and later as a soldier with French forces during three years in Vietnam....

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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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    • 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 6,454 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 31 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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    • One Family, Three Children, Five Bags and the Promise of Adventure Living in The French Alps (French at Heart, Book 1)
    • By: Catherine Berry
    • Narrated by: Catherine P M Berry
    • Series: French at Heart, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-23
    • Language: English
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    • Some months before, my husband, three children and I had casually unzipped and discarded our comfortable Australian lifestyle and slipped on life in the country of haute couture....

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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 2,272 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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    • Napoleon and Pius VII
    • By: Ambrogio A. Caiani
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Ambrogio Caiani provides a groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and state....

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    • A Midwesterner in Paris
    • By: Scott Dominic Carpenter
    • Narrated by: Scott Dominic Carpenter
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris, little does he suspect the dramas that await: Scheming neighbors, police denunciations, surly demonstrators, cooking disasters, medical mishaps - not to mention all those lectures about cheese....

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    • A Forger's Life
    • By: Sarah Kaminsky, Mike Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • At the age of 17, Adolfo Kaminsky had narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz and was living in Nazi-occupied Paris, using forged documents to hide in plain sight....

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