Honoré Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau (1749–1791) is one of the most prominent figures of the Great French Revolution, a brilliant orator and publicist, a bully...

A hooligan from a large provincial family who made his living as a black marketeer and “rejected” from the army by feigning a mental disorder; a unique actor...

At the age of 12 he put labels on jars of blacking in a dirty London factory, at 24 he published The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club and became the mo...

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) went down in history as a virtuoso organist and prolific composer: cantatas, Passions, concertos, sonatas, fugues, canons, ...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was a great German composer and performer, one of the three (along with Haydn and Mozart) “Viennese classics”, a key figure ...

Audrey Hepburn is called the last princess of Hollywood. Huge eyes, a chiseled figure, a radiant smile and natural elegance immortalized her image. For her f...

The Polish uprising of 1794 was defeated. Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Jan Kiliński and other leaders of the uprising are taken to St. Petersburg. The final division ...

Armand Emmanuel du Plessis, 5th Duke of Richelieu (1766–1822), received the name Emmanuel Osipovich in Russia and was depicted in bronze as Duke. The great-g...

A young and rich orphan, the Marquis de Lafayette is an excellent match; Adrienne de Noailles is a girl from a noble family with great connections at court. ...

In the spring of 1794, Poland, forced for the second time to give up part of its territories to Russia, Prussia and Austria, rebelled under the leadership of...

In many books and films about Alfonso Capone, aka Al Brown, aka Snorky, aka Al “Scarface”, there is more fiction than truth. The “King of the Gangsters” occu...

Hervé Bazin (Jean Pierre Marie Hervé-Bazin) is a classic of modern French literature, a recognized master of the family novel. The book presents two works of...