Modern France History

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    • By: John Julius Norwich
    • Narrated by: John Julius Norwich
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • John Julius Norwich - called a "true master of narrative history" by Simon Sebag Montefiore - returns with the book he has spent his distinguished career wanting to write, A History of France, a portrait of the past two centuries of the country he loves best....

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    • A Captivating Guide to French History
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • France has influenced the course of history in Europe and the world for centuries....

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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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    • Empires, Kings, and Revolutions
    • By: Dominic Haynes
    • Narrated by: Vivica Reimann
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Unearth the incredible story of France – from Celtic pre-history to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the modern day.

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    • The 1700s and the Napoleon Era (France from Gaul to the Modern Age, Book 3)
    • By: Will Forrest
    • Narrated by: Andrew Cooper
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-23
    • Language: English
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    • The History of France: The 1700s and the Napoleon Era isn't like those other dusty books that put you to sleep before you can finish the first chapter. This book's got something special—something that makes you want to keep listening and find out what happens next....

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    • France, from 1815–1940 and Afterward (France from Gaul to the Modern Age, Book 4)
    • By: Will Forrest
    • Narrated by: Andrew Cooper
    • Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-23
    • Language: English
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    • Hold on to your hats, folks! Get ready for a wild ride through French history with this incredible journey spanning from 1815 to the tumultuous times that followed....

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    • The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
    • By: Rachel Chrastil
    • Narrated by: Sarah Borges
    • Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Historian Rachel Chrastil presents a definitive new history of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I....

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    • From 1180 to the 1600s (France From Gaul to the Modern Age, Book 2)
    • By: Will Forrest
    • Narrated by: Andrew Cooper
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-23
    • Language: English
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    • France, 1180 to 1600. A tale of power, intrigue, and change. Kings and queens ruled with ambition. Wars raged across the land. Culture flourished. Society evolved....

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    • By: Edmund Burke
    • Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 239 ratings
    • Blending history with principle and graceful imagery with profound practical maxims, this book is one of the most influential political treatises in the history of the world....

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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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    • Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
    • By: David A. Bell
    • Narrated by: Trenton Bennett
    • Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David A. Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons, and sailing ships—in the age of Napoleon....

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    • By: Roger Price
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Ranging from the early Middle Ages to the present, this is the broadest and most up-to-date study of French history available in English. Among its themes are the relationships between state and society, the impact of war, competition for power, and the ways in which power has been used....

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    • Brief Histories
    • By: Cecil Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Tristan Bernays
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • When we think of France we often evoke images of fine food and wine, the elegant boulevards of Paris, the chic beaches of St Tropez....

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    • A Comprehensive Look at the History of France from Ancient Gaul to the Modern Era (France from Gaul to the Modern Age, Book 5)
    • By: Will Forrest
    • Narrated by: Andrew Cooper
    • Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Immerse yourself in the tales of powerful kings and queens, the birth of a nation, and the incredible transformations that have made France the country it is today....

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    • By: Graham Robb
    • Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
    • Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • An authoritative history of the French nation that can be listened to for novelistic pleasure, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Discovery of France and Parisians....

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    • Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City
    • By: Stephane Kirkland
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Paris Reborn is a must-read for anyone who ever wondered how Paris, the city universally admired as a standard of urban beauty, became what it is....

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    • When Paris Discovered Casual - and the Modern Home Began
    • By: Joan DeJean
    • Narrated by: Teri Wilde
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Today, it is difficult to imagine a living room without a sofa. When the first sofas on record were delivered in 17th-century France, the result was a radical reinvention of interior space....

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