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    • Year of Revolution
    • By: Mike Rapport
    • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
    • Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
    • By: William Doyle
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolors....

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    • A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis
    • By: John T. McGreevy
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Thomas Paine
    • Narrated by: Robin Field
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 492 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • 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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    • Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
    • By: Craig Nelson
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that “history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine"....

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    • Lafayette Reconsidered
    • By: Laura Auricchio
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 236 ratings
    • A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution....

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    • An Adventure History
    • By: Graham Robb
    • Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
    • Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes listeners on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history....

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    • A Concise Biography
    • By: David A. Bell
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • 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 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 89 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: Thomas Paine
    • Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man is unquestionably one of the great classics on the subject of democracy....

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    • A Novel of Napoleon's Court
    • By: Michelle Moran
    • Narrated by: Adam Alexi-Malle, Emma Bering, Tanya Franks
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 259 ratings
    • 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 Novel of the French Revolution
    • By: Allison Pataki, Owen Pataki
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • Three years after the storming of the Bastille, the streets of Paris are roiling with the spirit of revolution. The citizens of France are enlivened by the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity....

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    • By: Alexandre Dumas
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Series: The Marie Antoinette Romances, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In 1785, a sensational trial known as the Affair of the Diamond Necklace began in Paris that would divide the country and captivate Europe. The Queen’s Necklace, loosely based on the Affair, is Alexandre Dumas’ take on the royal scandal....

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    • The Giants Who Made Our World
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Steve West
    • Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • 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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    • On Political Reaction
    • By: Mark Lilla
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • 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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    • The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More: Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
    • By: Karen Prior
    • Narrated by: Christine Stevens
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain's upper classes, and taught a nation how to read....

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    • By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    • Narrated by: Neville Jason
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. In The Social Contract, Rousseau explores the concept of freedom and the political structures....

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    • By: Timothy Tackett
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • 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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