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15 Episodes 2014 - 2014
Episode 1
About Nicholas II, the last Tsar of the Russian empire, and the end of the ill-fated Romanov dynasty.
Episode 2
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.
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
About Madame De Pompadour, the favorite among the courtesans at the court of King Louis XV of France.
Episode 6
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.
Episode 7
About the life of the fabled opera singer Maria Callas, her triumphs and her suffering.
Episode 8
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.
Episode 9
Episode 10
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.
Episode 11
About Charlotte, grand duchess of Luxembourg, who ruled her country after a form of constitutional monarchy was introduced in the early 20th century.
Episode 12
Episode 13
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.
Episode 14
Episode 15
About queen Hortense, the wife of Louis Bonaparte, the French king of Holland, and mother of Napoleon III who became the French emperor.
Episode 16
About Julius Caesar, ruler of Rome at the height of it's power.