French Biography

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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 180 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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    • 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 85 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: 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 560 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 6,463 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 32 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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    • 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 168 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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    • A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch
    • By: Erin French
    • Narrated by: Erin French
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,346 ratings
    • Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad’s diner....

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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 237 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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    • By: Alex French
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 646 ratings
    • In the summer of 1975, the sprawling valley town of Grand Junction, Colorado, is stunned by the grisly double murders of 24-year-old Linda Benson and her baby daughter Kelley....

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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 2,273 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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    • China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson
    • By: Paul French
    • Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • New York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis, Duchess of Windsor—her one year in China....

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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 376 ratings
    • With a sharp eye for comic detail and a wicked ear for the absurdities of life, Dawn French shows just how an RAF girl from the west country with dreams of becoming a ballerina/bridesmaid/thief rose to become one of the best-loved comedy actresses of our time....

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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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    • 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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    • The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution
    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was an 18th-century French inventor, famed playwright, and upstart near-aristocrat in the court of King Louis XVI. In 1776, he conceived an audacious plan to send aid to the American rebels. What's more, he convinced the king to bankroll the project....

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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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    • 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 186 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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