This collection offers new perspectives on the lives of eight famous women in nineteenth century France. Their stories are used as a starting point through whic

On January 6, 1537, Lorenzino de’ Medici murdered Alessandro de’ Medici, the duke of Florence. This episode is significant in literature and drama, in Flore

When Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814, and again in 1815, France embarked upon a period of uneasy cohabitation between the old and the new. The writer

The Nineteenth century and after (London)