French Historical Biographies

Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General

By Marc Leepson

Napoleon and Wellington

By Andrew Roberts

Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution

By Professor Hugh Brogan

The Battle of the Casbah

By Paul Aussaresses

Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography

By John A Hall

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

By Barbara W. Tuchman

But You Did Not Come Back

By Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Sandra Smith

On Derrida

By Stephen Hahn

The Twins: The SOE's Brothers of Vengeance

By Peter Jacobs

Twelve Days on the Somme

By Sidney Rogerson, Malcolm Brown

The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

By Dimbleby, Jonathan

Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

By Moore, Lucy

Napoleon III

By James F. McMillan

A Study on Authority: Set 3 (Radical Thinkers)

By Marcuse, Herbert

The Courtesans: The Demi-Monde in the 19th Century France

By Joanna Richardson

We Landed by Moonlight: Secret RAF Landings in France, 1940-44

By Hugh Verity

Rosie's War: An Englishwoman's Escape From Occupied France

By Noel Holland, Rosemary Say

Louis XIV

By Geoffrey Treasure (Formerly Harrow School, London, UK)

The Lost Tommies

By Ross Coulthart

A Nurse at the Front: The First World War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton

By Ruth Cowen

Napoleon on Napoleon: An Autobiography of the Emperor

By Napoleon I, Somerset De Chair

The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro

By Iain McCalman

Truth About Cora Pearl

By Polly Binder

The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

By Antony Beevor

Londonopolis: A Curious and Quirky History of London

By Martin Latham, Joe McLaren

The Sun King

By Nancy Mitford, Stella Tillyard

Saint Vincent De Paul

By Frances A.M. Forbes

Paris to the Moon: A Family in France

By Adam Gopnik

The Last Communard: Adrien Lejeune, the Unexpected Life of a Revolutionary

By Gavin Bowd

My Life in France: The life story of Julia Child - 'exuberant, affectionate and boundlessly charming' New York Times

By Julia Child, Olivia Potts