French Revolution
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1848
- Year of Revolution
- By: Mike Rapport
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
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In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had kept peace on the continent since Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 - but which in many countries had also suppressed dreams of national freedom....
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1848 by Mike Rapport
- By Aria Amirbahman on 02-07-22
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1848
- Year of Revolution
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 12-21-21
- Language: English
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In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had kept peace on the continent since Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 - but which in many countries had also suppressed dreams of national freedom....
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Napoleon
- A Concise Biography
- By: David A. Bell
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Perfect introduction to Napoleon
- By DJP on 10-17-20
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Napoleon
- A Concise Biography
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 07-31-18
- Language: English
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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 Fall of Robespierre
- 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
- By: Colin Jones
- Narrated by: Sasha Higgins
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
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The day of 9 Thermidor is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At midnight, Maximilien Robespierre was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced....
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Really interesting but. . .
- By Alan M on 08-14-23
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The Fall of Robespierre
- 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
- Narrated by: Sasha Higgins
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-18-22
- Language: English
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The day of 9 Thermidor is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At midnight, Maximilien Robespierre was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced....
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Napoleon
- A Life
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 32 hrs and 56 mins
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The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times best-selling author of The Storm of War....
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What a dynamo!
- By Tad Davis on 01-16-15
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The Age of Reason
- By: Thomas Paine
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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This passionate and engaging recording of Paine’s classic is as certain to provoke modern listeners to thought as it did his original audience....
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Amazed by the energy, originality & bravery
- By Darwin8u on 10-06-12
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The Age of Reason
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-31-10
- Language: English
- This passionate and engaging recording of Paine’s classic is as certain to provoke modern listeners to thought as it did his original audience....
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Titans of History
- The Giants Who Made Our World
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
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In this inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories, Simon Sebag Montefiore - one of our preeminent historians and a prizewinning writer - presents the giant characters who have changed the course of world history....
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Party line history
- By Narada on 11-24-18
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Titans of History
- The Giants Who Made Our World
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-16-18
- Language: English
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In this inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories, Simon Sebag Montefiore - one of our preeminent historians and a prizewinning writer - presents the giant characters who have changed the course of world history....
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Thomas Paine
- Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
- By: Craig Nelson
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
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John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that “history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine"....
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This man should be a household name!
- By Darlene Davis on 11-21-11
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Thomas Paine
- Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-19-11
- Language: English
- John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that “history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine"....
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The Lost King of France
- How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
- By: Deborah Cadbury
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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Louis-Charles, Duc de Normandie, enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the dauphin, heir to the most powerful throne in Europe. Yet within five years he was to lose everything....
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Not For the Faint of Heart
- By Liane on 01-23-20
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The Lost King of France
- How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 12-03-19
- Language: English
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Louis-Charles, Duc de Normandie, enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the dauphin, heir to the most powerful throne in Europe. Yet within five years he was to lose everything....
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
- By: Edmund Burke
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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Written in the form of a letter to a Frenchman, Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France is an impassioned attack on the French Revolution and its hasty destruction of the Church, the old elites, and the Crown....
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 05-16-20
- Language: English
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Written in the form of a letter to a Frenchman, Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France is an impassioned attack on the French Revolution and its hasty destruction of the Church, the old elites, and the Crown....
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Catholicism
- A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis
- By: John T. McGreevy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
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Through powerful individual stories and sweeping birds-eye views, Catholicism provides a mesmerizing assessment of the Church's complex role in modern history: both shaper and follower of the politics of nation states, conservator of hierarchies and evangelizer of egalitarianism....
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Historian as Advocate
- By R. S. Corzine on 10-08-23
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Catholicism
- A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 09-27-22
- Language: English
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Through powerful individual stories and sweeping birds-eye views, Catholicism provides a mesmerizing assessment of the Church's complex role in modern history: both shaper and follower of the politics of nation states, conservator of hierarchies and evangelizer of egalitarianism....
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The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette
- A Novel
- By: Carolly Erickson
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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Carolly Erickson takes the reader deep into the psyche of France's doomed queen....
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quick and easy historical fiction
- By DarthVal on 10-12-15
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The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 09-02-05
- Language: English
- Carolly Erickson takes the reader deep into the psyche of France's doomed queen....
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
- By: Baroness Orczy
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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"Who is this man, this Scarlet Pimpernel?" Each day this question grew more pressing to the leaders of the French Revolution....
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Not great literature but a great classic
- By David on 07-10-11
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Series: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 06-14-07
- Language: English
- "Who is this man, this Scarlet Pimpernel?" Each day this question grew more pressing to the leaders of the French Revolution....
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Revolutionary Spring
- Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
- By: Christopher Clark
- Narrated by: Christopher Clark
- Length: 33 hrs and 26 mins
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From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward, with deep resonance and frightening parallels to today....
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Like the revolutions, it got off to a good start
- By Anonymous User on 06-23-23
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Revolutionary Spring
- Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
- Narrated by: Christopher Clark
- Length: 33 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-13-23
- Language: English
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From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward, with deep resonance and frightening parallels to today....
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The Second Empress
- A Novel of Napoleon's Court
- By: Michelle Moran
- Narrated by: Adam Alexi-Malle, Emma Bering, Tanya Franks
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on primary resources from the time, The Second Empress takes readers back to Napoleon’s empire, where royals and servants alike live at the whim of one man, and two women vie to change their destinies....
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A brilliant novel!
- By BVerité on 12-08-12
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The Second Empress
- A Novel of Napoleon's Court
- Narrated by: Adam Alexi-Malle, Emma Bering, Tanya Franks
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 08-14-12
- Language: English
- Based on primary resources from the time, The Second Empress takes readers back to Napoleon’s empire, where royals and servants alike live at the whim of one man, and two women vie to change their destinies....
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Marquis
- Lafayette Reconsidered
- By: Laura Auricchio
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution....
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Lafayette: A Hit Abroad! & A Miss at Home!
- By James on 03-05-15
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Marquis
- Lafayette Reconsidered
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 10-14-14
- Language: English
- A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution....
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A Tale of Two Cities
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
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Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities is a sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris with a complex plot portraying the results of terror and treason, love and supreme sacrifice....
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Best of Listens, Worst of Listens
- By Wendy on 12-02-12
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A Tale of Two Cities
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 03-23-11
- Language: English
- Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities is a sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris with a complex plot portraying the results of terror and treason, love and supreme sacrifice....
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The Last Cavalier
- Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 35 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of France from the Renaissance to the 19th century, as Dumas vibrantly retold it in his numerous enormously popular novels, has long been absent one vital, richly historical era....
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a word of warning
- By Mary on 12-24-10
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The Last Cavalier
- Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 35 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 10-29-09
- Language: English
- The story of France from the Renaissance to the 19th century, as Dumas vibrantly retold it in his numerous enormously popular novels, has long been absent one vital, richly historical era....
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The Rights of Man
- By: Thomas Paine
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man is unquestionably one of the great classics on the subject of democracy....
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Essential Reading for Thinking Americans
- By Aces Tweakmule on 01-19-21
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The Rights of Man
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-23-12
- Language: English
- Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man is unquestionably one of the great classics on the subject of democracy....
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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
- By: Timothy Tackett
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
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Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights....
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Terrible Accent
- By john on 06-15-21
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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-23-20
- Language: English
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Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights....
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The Shipwrecked Mind
- On Political Reaction
- By: Mark Lilla
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us....
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Broken File
- By Nelson Alexander on 04-02-17
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The Shipwrecked Mind
- On Political Reaction
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 03-14-17
- Language: English
- We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us....
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