The image of this king - a cruel and treacherous despot, a miser and a hypocrite - is firmly entrenched in our minds thanks to numerous historical novels, po...

The British Parliament is the oldest in the world. Since the 13th century, England has been a “laboratory” of parliamentary mechanisms and institutions, many...

The new book by the world famous French prose writer Pascal Lenet includes the novels “The Farewell Dinner”, “Anais” and “Casanova’s Last Love”. And although...

The personality of Elvis Presley (1935–1977) deserves attention not only and not so much because he was and remains the most popular artist in world pop cult...

Everything has been said about Moliere (1622–1673) and almost nothing is known. His manuscripts have not been preserved, the houses where he lived have been ...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is one of the most charismatic figures of the 20th century. Rabindranath Tagore gave him the name Mahatma - "Great Soul", by which...

Readers imagine the image of Louis XIII from the novel “The Three Musketeers” by Alexandre Dumas, where the king appears as a minor, semi-caricatured charact...

The first half of the 17th century - the era of Richelieu and Louis XIII, nicknamed the Just - was difficult in the history of France: conspiracies of nobles...

George Washington (1732–1799) went down in American history as “the father of the nation and the savior of the fatherland.” A hero of the French and Indian W...

Genevieve Dormann (b. 1933) is a famous contemporary French novelist, journalist, winner of numerous literary awards. “The Little Hand” is one of the best no...