« Que cet enfant est laid et disgracieux, on dirait Riquet à la Houppe ! - Tout à fait : vous ne savez pas qui c'est ? »Ces mots étaient échangés par deux petites filles sortant d'une pension de demoiselles de la ville de Winchester. Cette pension était dirigée par deux dames françaises, qui avaient quitté leur pays, fuyant les persécutions religieuses qui avaient précédé la révocation de l'Édit de Nantes. Elles égayaient les leçons de leurs élèves par la lecture des contes de la Mère l'Oie.Fruit d'une sélection réalisée au sein des fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection XIX a pour ambition de faire découvrir des textes classiques et moins classiques dans les meilleures éditions du XIXe siècle.

Je vous ai promis depuis longtemps, mes chers enfants, de recueillir pour vous mes souvenirs d'un temps que votre père lui-même se rappelle à peine. Je me réjouis à la pensée que je pourrai ainsi resserrer les liens qui nous unissent à la famille anglaise qui m'est si chère, bien que je ne puisse pas espérer de la revoir en ce monde, et encore moins le lieu chéri où j'ai été élevée.Vous avez peut-être oublié que je suis née Anglaise et que j'ai vu le jour au château de Walwyn, dans le comté de Dorset.Fruit d'une sélection réalisée au sein des fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection XIX a pour ambition de faire découvrir des textes classiques et moins classiques dans les meilleures éditions du XIXe siècle.

In the tumultuous era of the English Civil War, a young woman's destiny intertwines with the fate of a nation. Lady Alice Lee, a staunch Royalist, finds herself trapped in the clutches of the Parliamentarian forces. As the war rages around her, she must navigate a treacherous path, torn between her loyalty to her family and her growing attraction to a dashing enemy officer. Amidst the clash of swords and the roar of cannons, Alice's courage and resilience are tested as she witnesses the horrors of war firsthand. Will she find love and redemption in the midst of chaos, or will her dreams be shattered by the unforgiving tides of history?

Forty-year-old Alwyn Egremont seduces Alice, an 18-year-old nursery governess, in his brother's employ. Scared he will lose his inheritance for doing so, Alwyn denies the affair and abandons her and their unborn daughter, Nuttie. When the supposedly dead Alwyn Egremont appears on Alice's doorstep some 17 years later, Nuttie's life is changed forever. Taken from her childhood home, she must adapt to a new life. But can Nuttie overcome her mother's blind devotion to a destructive Alwyn and her own resentment of her absent father? `Nuttie's Father' (1885) is a romantic novel that will delight any reader interested in Victorian literature. Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823 - 1901) was a prolific and popular English novelist, biographer, editor, historian, essayist, and journalist. She is most famous for her novels which include `Heartsease', `The Daisy Chain', `The Young Stepmother', and the commercially successful `The Heir of Redclyffe' (1853). Yonge was also a founder and editor for forty years of `The Monthly Packet' magazine, while her book, `History of Christian Names', is considered to be the first serious attempt at recording the subject. Profits from her books were often donated to charitable causes.

Written by the English author Charlotte Mary Yonge, `The Caged Lion' (1870) tells the story of King James I of Scotland - the caged lion of the title - who has been a prisoner in England since childhood. It's 1421, Scotland is in chaos, and Malcolm Stewart is desperate to protect his sister and tenants. He enters service as a royal kinsman to James I and sets out on a journey that will see him fight for his King, his country, and for love. `The Caged Lion' is an ideal read for those new to Yonge's authorship. Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823 - 1901) was a prolific and popular English novelist, biographer, editor, historian, essayist, and journalist. She is most famous for her novels which include `Heartsease', `The Daisy Chain', `The Young Stepmother', and the commercially successful `The Heir of Redclyffe' (1853). Yonge was also a founder and editor for forty years of `The Monthly Packet' magazine, while her book, `History of Christian Names', is considered to be the first serious attempt at recording the subject. Profits from her books were often donated to charitable causes.

`The Pillars of the House Volume 1' - or ´Under Wode, Under Rode´ - is the first instalment of English writer Charlotte Mary Yonge's story about the Underwood children. Three years after the birth of her twins, Mrs Underwood dies, leaving her thirteen children orphaned. Felix, the oldest child at 16 years of age, and his eldest sister, Wilmet, are determined their family will stay together. Set in the industrial town of Bexley, this Victorian family saga tells the story of the children as they struggle to survive and find their way in the world against all odds. This is a story of hope, love, sacrifice, and family, and it is ideal for anyone looking for a great, heartwarming family saga. Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823 - 1901) was a prolific and popular English novelist, biographer, editor, historian, essayist, and journalist. She is most famous for her novels which include `Heartsease', `The Daisy Chain', `The Young Stepmother', and the commercially successful `The Heir of Redclyffe' (1853). Yonge was also a founder and editor for forty years of `The Monthly Packet' magazine, while her book, `History of Christian Names', is considered to be the first serious attempt at recording the subject. Profits from her books were often donated to charitable causes.

`The Pillars of the House Volume 2' - or ´Under Wode, Under Rode´ - is the second instalment of English writer Charlotte Mary Yonge's story about the Underwood children. Set in the industrial town of Bexley, this Victorian family saga continues the story of the orphaned children as they struggle to survive and find their way in the world against all odds. A story of hope, love, sacrifice, and family, `The Pillars of the House Volume 2' will surely delight anyone interested in great family sagas. Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823 - 1901) was a prolific and popular English novelist, biographer, editor, historian, essayist, and journalist. She is most famous for her novels which include `Heartsease', `The Daisy Chain', `The Young Stepmother', and the commercially successful `The Heir of Redclyffe' (1853). Yonge was also a founder and editor for forty years of `The Monthly Packet' magazine, while her book, `History of Christian Names', is considered to be the first serious attempt at recording the subject. Profits from her books were often donated to charitable causes.

The bed-ridden widow Julia Charnock Poynsett lives at home with her two youngest sons, but soon her three eldest children, who left home to get married, will return with their wives for the very first time. Raymond, an MP and heir to his mother's fortune, has married his second cousin, while Julius is the new rector of the parish. The third son, Miles, has sent his wife Anne back ahead of him while he completes his tour of duty. Living under the same roof as their crippled mother, the sons begin to learn a lot about their new wives. `The Three Brides' is a family drama full of romance, betrayal, and greed, perfect for fans of the Brontë sisters. Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823 - 1901) was a prolific and popular English novelist, biographer, editor, historian, essayist, and journalist. She is most famous for her novels which include `Heartsease', `The Daisy Chain', `The Young Stepmother', and the commercially successful `The Heir of Redclyffe' (1853). Yonge was also a founder and editor for forty years of `The Monthly Packet' magazine, while her book, `History of Christian Names', is considered to be the first serious attempt at recording the subject. Profits from her books were often donated to charitable causes.

Charlotte Mary Yonge's `The Young Step-Mother' - or ´A Chronicle of Mistakes´ - is a historical fiction novel that tells the story of the heroine, Albinia Ferrars, who leaves her happy home to marry Edmund Kendal, a widower fifteen years older than her. She takes on the role of encouraging wife and stepmother to his three children, however, she quickly finds that other tasks and obstacles come her way. Her husband has depression, his children are sickly, and those around the family are hostile to change. Albinia tackles all these problems without judgement and begins to believe things have improved, up until her stepchildren begin to fall in love, with disastrous results. A novel to be enjoyed by fans of Louisa May Alcott's `Little Women' or Jane Austen's novels, Yonge's fiction has a subtle theme of moral teaching. Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823 - 1901) was a prolific and popular English novelist, biographer, editor, historian, essayist, and journalist. She is most famous for her novels which include `Heartsease', `The Daisy Chain', `The Young Stepmother', and the commercially successful `The Heir of Redclyffe' (1853). Yonge was also a founder and editor for forty years of `The Monthly Packet' magazine, while her book, `History of Christian Names', is considered to be the first serious attempt at recording the subject. Profits from her books were often donated to charitable causes.

During the captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, plots, conspiracies, and intrigue engulfed the country. Catholics were apprehensive of Protestants; Scots mistrusted the English. No one felt completely safe. Into the midst of this turmoil was thrust a tiny baby girl, rescued from a storm-tossed sea, the solitary survivor of the wreck of the Bride of Dunbar. Was this unfortunate child - adopted and raised in the bosom of a loving family - connected to the displaced and unhappy Queen Mary? Would she eventually find herself at the mercy of the Elizabeth, Queen of England, or would she find happy bliss with her one true love?

This chapter of France's history is about Power Of The Crown : Richelieu's Administration, The War in Flanders and Italy, The Fronde, The Court of Anne of Austria, Court of Louis XIV, France under Louis XIV, War in the Low Countries, Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, The War of the Palatinate, The War of the Succession in Spain,Peace of Utrecht,The Regency, War of the Austrian Succession, The Seven Years' War, France under Louis XV, and the Reaction .Charlotte Mary Yonge was an English novelist and historian. Yonge's work was widely read and respected in the nineteenth century, and admired by many great writers like Lewis Carroll or George Eliot. She attached a lot of importance to the education of girls, and her work reflected the values and concerns of Anglo-Catholicism; she wrote many historical novels, for which she studied history in great detail. This audiobook, read by Paul Spera, is her retelling of the essential episodes that made France. Each historical event is replaced into context and presented in clear and easy-to-read snippets, so that younger and older readers can deepen their understanding of how modern France came to be and broaden their culture. This historical essays deals with France's earlier kings, the hundred years' war, the struggle with Burgundy, the Italian warsthe wars of religion, absolute monarchy, and the French Revolution.

This chapter of France's history is about the Earlier Kings Of France : The House of Paris, The Kingdom of Hugh Capet, the Earlier Kings of the House of Paris, the kings Louis VI and Louis VII, Philip II (1180-1223), The Albigenses (1203-1240), The Parliament of Paris, the Crusade of Louis IX, Philip the Fair, and The Papacy at Avignon. Charlotte Mary Yonge was an English novelist and historian. Yonge's work was widely read and respected, and admired by many great writers like Lewis Carroll or George Eliot. She attached a lot of importance to the education of girls, and her work reflected the values and concerns of Anglo-Catholicism; she wrote many historical novels, for which she studied history in great detail. This audiobook, read by Paul Spera, is her retelling of the essential episodes that made France. Each historical event is replaced into context and presented in clear and easy-to-read snippets, so that younger and older readers can deepen their understanding of how modern France came to be and broaden their culture. This historical essays deals with France's earlier kings, the hundred years' war, the struggle with Burgundy, the Italian wars, the wars of religion, absolute monarchy, and the French Revolution.

The French Revolution : Attempts at Reform, The States-General, The New Constitution, The Republic, The Reign of Terror, The Directory, The Consulate .Charlotte Mary Yonge was an English novelist and historian. Yonge's work was widely read and respected in the nineteenth century, and admired by many great writers like Lewis Carroll or George Eliot. She attached a lot of importance to the education of girls, and her work reflected the values and concerns of Anglo-Catholicism; she wrote many historical novels, for which she studied history in great detail. This audiobook, read by Paul Spera, is her retelling of the essential episodes that made France. Each historical event is replaced into context and presented in clear and easy-to-read snippets, so that younger and older readers can deepen their understanding of how modern France came to be and broaden their culture. This historical essays deals with France's earlier kings, the hundred years' war, the struggle with Burgundy, the Italian wars, the wars of religion, absolute monarchy, and the French Revolution.

This chapter of France's history is about The Wars Of Religion : The Bourbons and Guises, The Reformation, The Conspiracy of Amboise, the Regency of Catherine de' Medici, The Religious War, Catherine's Policy, the Massacre of St. Bartholomew (1572), The League, Henry IV, The Edict of Nantes, Henry's Plans, The States-General of 1614, The Siege of Rochelle .Charlotte Mary Yonge was an English novelist and historian. Yonge's work was widely read and respected in the nineteenth century, and admired by many great writers like Lewis Carroll or George Eliot. She attached a lot of importance to the education of girls, and her work reflected the values and concerns of Anglo-Catholicism; she wrote many historical novels, for which she studied history in great detail. This audiobook, read by Paul Spera, is her retelling of the essential episodes that made France. Each historical event is replaced into context and presented in clear and easy-to-read snippets, so that younger and older readers can deepen their understanding of how modern France came to be and broaden their culture. This historical essays deals with France's earlier kings, the hundred years' war, the struggle with Burgundy, the Italian wars, the wars of religion, absolute monarchy, and the French Revolution.

This chapter of France's history is about The Hundred Years' War : the Wars of Edward III, the battles of Creçy and Poitiers, The Jacquerie, The Peace of Bretigny, the Renewal of the War, the House of Burgundy, the Insanity of Charles VI, the Burgundians and Armagnacs, the Invasion of Henry V, the Treaty of Troyes, The Maid of Orleans, the Recovery of France (1434-1450), the Conquest of Aquitaine (1450), The Standing Army (1452). Charlotte Mary Yonge was an English novelist and historian. Yonge's work was widely read and respected in the nineteenth century, and admired by many great writers like Lewis Carroll or George Eliot. She attached a lot of importance to the education of girls, and her work reflected the values and concerns of Anglo-Catholicism; she wrote many historical novels, for which she studied history in great detail. This audiobook, read by Paul Spera, is her retelling of the essential episodes that made France. Each historical event is replaced into context and presented in clear and easy-to-read snippets, so that younger and older readers can deepen their understanding of how modern France came to be and broaden their culture. This historical essays deals with France's earlier kings, the hundred years' war, the struggle with Burgundy, the Italian wars, the wars of religion, absolute monarchy, and the French Revolution.

This chapter of France's history is about The Italian Wars : Campaigns of Charles VIII (1493), the Campaign of Louis XII, The Holy League, the Campaigns of Francis I, Charles V, the Wars of Francis and Charles, Henry II .Charlotte Mary Yonge was an English novelist and historian. Yonge's work was widely read and respected in the nineteenth century, and admired by many great writers like Lewis Carroll or George Eliot. She attached a lot of importance to the education of girls, and her work reflected the values and concerns of Anglo-Catholicism; she wrote many historical novels, for which she studied history in great detail. This audiobook, read by Paul Spera, is her retelling of the essential episodes that made France. Each historical event is replaced into context and presented in clear and easy-to-read snippets, so that younger and older readers can deepen their understanding of how modern France came to be and broaden their culture. This historical essays deals with France's earlier kings, the hundred years' war, the struggle with Burgundy, the Italian wars, the wars of religion, absolute monarchy, and the French Revolution.

This chapter of France's history is about the Struggle With Burgundy : Power of Burgundy, Louis XI.'s Policy, Charles the Bold, The Fall of Charles the Bold (1477), Louis's Home Government, Provence and Brittany. Charlotte Mary Yonge was an English novelist and historian. Yonge's work was widely read and respected in the nineteenth century, and admired by many great writers like Lewis Carroll or George Eliot. She attached a lot of importance to the education of girls, and her work reflected the values and concerns of Anglo-Catholicism; she wrote many historical novels, for which she studied history in great detail. This audiobook, read by Paul Spera, is her retelling of the essential episodes that made France. Each historical event is replaced into context and presented in clear and easy-to-read snippets, so that younger and older readers can deepen their understanding of how modern France came to be and broaden their culture. This historical essays deals with France's earlier kings, the hundred years' war, the struggle with Burgundy, the Italian wars, the wars of religion, absolute monarchy, and the French Revolution.

This historical essays deals with France's earlier kings, the hundred years' war, the struggle with Burgundy, the Italian wars, the wars of religion, the absolute monarchy, and the French Revolution. 1000 years of history about a fascinating european country, France, from around 987 to 1797. Charlotte Mary Yonge was an English novelist and historian. Yonge's work was widely read and respected in the nineteenth century, and admired by many great writers like Lewis Carroll or George Eliot. She attached a lot of importance to the education of girls, and her work reflected the values and concerns of Anglo-Catholicism; she wrote many historical novels, for which she studied history in great detail. This audiobook, read by Paul Spera, is her retelling of the essential episodes that made France. Each historical event is replaced into context and presented in clear and easy-to-read snippets, so that younger and older readers can deepen their understanding of how modern France came to be and broaden their culture.

A brief history of France from the early 800AD to the 1870s, focusing on the successive heads of state and the different wars which shaped France into the country it was by the time of the book's publication (late 19th century). Summary by Adele Pooley

The Lances of Lynwood brings to life the high days of knighthood and chivalry in the 14th century during the Hundred Years War, in which the English House of Plantagenet contended with the French House of Valois. The courage and loyalty of a young Englishman, Eustace Lynwood, are tested when he joins the army of the Black Prince during sojourns in France and Spain. This book stirs the imagination, with its knights in shining armor, and exemplars of both faithful love and base treachery, as it portrays the glory of medieval warfare, but also the sufferings of sickness, wounds, and death. Many historical figures are presented, mainly drawn from Jean Froissart's Chronicles, and listeners may be led to delve deeper into the events of that interesting era. ( Carol Pelster)