Frankreich

Juni 1940: Hitlers Wehrmacht hat Frankreich besiegt. Die Gestapo fahndet nach Heinrich Mann und Lion Feuchtwanger, nach Hannah Arendt, Franz Werfel und...

V13: So lautet der Codename für den Prozess um die Terroranschläge in Paris, bei denen am Freitag, den 13. November 2015 in der Konzerthalle Bataclan...

L'Histoire de France des origines à nos jours, racontée avec passion et humour ! Un champ de ruines, voilà ce que risquent de devenir vos connaissances en...

Die Faszination des Schlosses von Versailles ist ungebrochen - das zeigen nicht zuletzt die zahlreichen Publikationen zum Thema...

Stefan Zweig schildert das Leben Marie Antoinettes von ihrer Kindheit in Österreich bis zu ihrer letzten Nacht in Versailles in Frankreich...

Poisoner, despot, necromancer - the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds....

In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....

The Years is a personal narrative of the period of 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory....

This is the story of a thousand years, a must-listen narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury, and madness....

During the 17th century, the Netherlands, despite having only 1.5 million people in 1600, became a global maritime and trading power. By contrast, France at the time had 20 million people, Spain had eight million, and England had five million....

Napoleon - schon der Name ist bis heute Inbegriff von Ruhm und historischer Größe. Nur selten in der Weltgeschichte hat ein Mensch in so...

"Das Bild der Kathedrale Notre Dame in Flammen ergriff und schockierte mich zutiefst. Ein Vermächtnis von unschätzbarem Wert lag vor...

From the massively popular podcaster and New York Times best-selling author comes the story of the Marquis de Lafayette's lifelong quest to protect the principles of democracy, told through the lens of the three revolutions he participated in....

Das neue Hörbuch von Katja Eichinger über den Sehnsuchtsort Côte d'Azur. Ultramarinblaues Meer, weiße Strandpromenaden, Palmen, Mimosen und...

Some historians have called the Seven Years’ War the first true world war, and they make a good point. Ultimately, this globally coordinated war involved five continents and at least 29 states and tribal confederacies, with a casualty toll in the millions and the maps forever altered....

Mont-Saint-Michel an der Küste der Normandie ist die wohl berühmteste Teilzeitinsel Europas, deren Insel-Status von den Gezeiten abhängt...

The Cartiers is the revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty—four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s....

Die bedeutsame Geschichte Frankreichs war seit Jahrhunderten geprägt von politischen, kulturellen und sozialen Veränderungen. Im 1. Jahrhundert...

One hot Monday morning in 1976, Albert Spaggiari engineered the European crime of the century. A bank president in Nice, France found his vault welded shut—from the inside. Spaggiari and his gang of 20 men had dug a 25-foot tunnel from the city's sewer system into the bank....

The French Revolution was fueled by the Enlightenment ideals Maximilien Robespierre vocally supported. But history remembers Robespierre as instrumental in the Reign of Terror....

In six weeks in 1940, France was overrun by German troops and surrendered. One junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England....