View our feature on Catherine Delors' Mistress of the Revolution.An impoverished noblewoman, Gabrielle de Montserrat is only fifteen when she meets her first love, a commoner named Pierre-André Coffinhal. But her brother forbids their union, forcing...
On Christmas Eve, 1800, a cart full of gunpowder explodes along the route of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's carriage in the midst of a busy Paris street. The bomb narrowly misses Bonaparte but kills or maims dozens of bystanders. Chief Inspector ...