Sur fond de guerres sanglantes, de Saint Barthélémy ainsi que de la lutte entre Catherine de Médicis et Henri de Navarre, la première épouse de ce dernier, Marguerite de Valois, appelée la reine Margot, entretient des...
As England descends into civil war, John Tradescant the Younger, gardener to King Charles I, finds his loyalties in question, his status an ever-growing danger to his family. Fearing royal defeat and determined to avoid serving the rebels, John...
When twenty-two-year-old Gerty Freely travels to Russia to work as a governess in early 1914, she has no idea of the vast political upheavals ahead, nor how completely her fate will be shaped by them. Yet as her intimacy with the charismatic...