History Of France, 1000 years

By: Charlotte Yong

Narrated by: Paul Spera

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.

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Terrible

Definitely the worst book I have purchased on Audible. With cursory detail and no analysis whatsoever, this book aspires more to being a Cliff Notes for middle school students than to being educational for even an amateur historian. The dry and hurried narration does not improve this poor product and the publisher was insufficiently interested to even provide a table of contents.