About Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 is generally seen as the event marking the outbreak of Word War One.
About Agnes Sorel, who lived in France in the first half of the 15th century and who was the favorite courtesan of King Charles VII of France and the first mistress of a king to be officially recognized.
About Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, known for much of her life as Madame de Maintenon, the second wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France.
Stéphane Bern helps us discover Charles de Gaulle, a man of action as well as a devoted husband and father. Seen as the right man at the right time by some and as an autocratic megalomaniac by others, General de Gaulle influenced 20th century history like no other French leader.
About Anne of Brittany, the grand duchess and ruler of Brittany in the late 15th and early 16th century, who was instrumental in the unification of France and Brittany.
