Liberté, égalité, sororité! French women have always had so much more to say than ‘let them eat cake’! Whether kicking the English out of Orléans, marching on Versailles or running messages for the French resistance, their stories of courage, creativity and genius have long defined French history. Unveiling the lives of twenty-one women who changed the course of French history, Katherine Pangonis spins a new history of France from the fifth century to the present day. Trace the rise of Eleanor of Aquitaine from teenage bride to the most powerful woman in medieval Europe;...
Liberté, égalité, sororité! French women have always had so much more to say than ‘let them eat cake’! Whether kicking the English out of O...