Portrait de la dernière reine d'Egypte soulignant ses qualités de stratège et de politique, ainsi que son influence sur les représentants du pouvoir romain, et dénonçant les parts de légende dans l'image véhiculée par Octave-Auguste. ...

Separates fact from fiction to reconstruct the life of the most influential woman of her era, revealing Cleopatra as a complex woman and shrewd monarch whose life and death reshaped the ancient world. ...

Six months after America declared her independence, Congress dispatched Benjamin Franklin to France to solicit aid and arms for the upcoming fight. This work tells a tale of international intrigue and from it emerges a portrait of a brilliant man, as well as a sense of the fragility and improvisatio...

Le temps est exécrable en ce 3 décembre de l'an 1776 sur les côtes bretonnes lorsque débarque, d'un frêle esquif, un vieillard goutteux et perclus de rhumatismes. Son arrivée se fait dans le plus grand secret - il s'agit pourtant d'un homme célèbre dans le monde entier, particulièrement respecté en ...

In a work of narrative history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer follows Benjamin Franklin to Paris for the crowning achievement of his illustrious career - an extraordinary eight year mission that ultimately bankrolled the revolution and secured American independence ...

Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons...