About the book: 1996 / This book outlines the most important events in the history of France from the Templar trial and the execution of Joan of Arc to the end of the French Revolution and Napoleon. Her heroes are Catherine de Medici, Nostradamus, Queen Margot, Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin, Anne of Austria, Fouche, d'Artagnan, Cagliostro, Beaumarchais and others.