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Born in Austria, and forever remembered in the storm of the French Revolution—Marie Antoinette. She is often spoken of merely as a “symbol of waste and extravagance.”Yet if we trace her life carefully, behind the dazzling gowns and the g...

The mist along the Loire River of France would creep slowly across the fields at dawn, before dissolving into the morning light.In the fifteenth century, one young girl gazed upon that same landscape. Joan of Arc. Later, people would cal...

Did the sun continue to shine even through the night? King Louis XIV of France — the man known as the Sun King — illuminated the skies of seventeenth-century Europe with dazzling brilliance.He ascended the throne at the age of ...

A boy born on the Mediterranean island of Corsica would one day build an empire and shake the world— Napoleon Bonaparte. Racing through the storms of revolution and triumphing on countless battlefields,his life was forever shadowed by tw...