In Baroness Emma Orczy's 1905 novel "The Scarlet Pimpernel", the year is 1792 and the French Revolution is complete. People die by the guillotine every day, often unjustly. Stepping in to right these wrongs and rescue the innocent is the elusive "Scarlet Pimpernel", a mysterious agent named for the red flower that is his signature. Meanwhile, foppish Sir Percy Blakeney and his French actress wife Marguerite are having marital difficulties when Marguerite...

Examines the principal causes and events of the French Revolution between 1789-1791 and considers what the outcome might have been had different decisions been made at crucial times before and during this period.

A retelling of the tale, set in medieval Paris, of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.

In 1455 in France, Gabrielle is visited by Pierre d'Arc, a brother of Joan of Arc, and with him reminisces about their childhood together in Domremy and Joan's subsequent trial and burning at the stake at Rouen twenty-four years before.

Recounts the political, social, and economic turmoil that took place during the French Revolution.

The story of the son of a Corsican attorney who became the most powerful man in Europe, a man whose political legacy endured long after his death-Napoleon Bonaparte. Explores his life, legacy, and image.

Explores the life of the patron saint of France from her birth, early childhood, to hearing the voice of the angel Michael and leading French armies against the English.

Lady Hero Fanshawe has chafed at society dictates since the death of her fianceþ taught her that joy can be fleeting. When her brother disappears in Paris at the height of the Terror, she has no hesitation in disguising herself as a boy and risking her life to find him--or in joining forces with a chance-met ally, the enigmatic William Ducasse, Viscount St. Aubrey. And she has no regrets in indulging in a passionate affair with the dangerously handsome...