Episodes

Best-selling author Luke Barr talks all about the French craze that revolutionized what's on your plate.

Political expert and researcher Craig Willy discusses the history of Gaullism and its influence on modern French geopolitics.

Scholar Peter Russella talks about lights in the dark and how Hugo depicted them.

Time to head south to a sunnier climate and a far different history from the north!

We're starting a whole new journey, looking beyond 'France' to all the parts of it that made it, well, France!

Will Clark leads us through the sites of the French Revolution, highlighting some underserved areas in his exciting new tour.

Genealogist Nicole Gallant-Nunes talks about her work tracking the lost Acadians.

Fourteen bizarre and incredible facts about French history.

Scholar Marie Robin investigates military brothels in the French empire.

Explorer Jacques Cartier's voyages into the unknown mapped parts of the New World, but were also rooted in European geopolitics. Scholar Elvira Viktória Tamus explains Cartier's place in exploration, war and power.

When there's nothing left to eat, the French begin eating each other: a special episode on cannibalism by Amanda Coate.

Popular author and scholar C.J. Adrien talks about the origins of the chivalric code.

A story about the tumultuous marriage of two royal figures by scholar Lance Pederson.

A quickie on the plan going forward.

Authors Petie Kladstrup & Evelyne Resnick discuss how important Eugénie de Montijo's life and legacy.

Con artists or merchants of love? Dr. Andrea Mansker talks about professional matchmakers in 19th century Paris.

Anne Morddel talks about the American sailors captured on the high seas by French ships during the Napoleonic Wars and what happened to them.

Louis VIII ruled for a short 3 years but before that he was the most fiercesome prince in Europe.

Ane Cornelia Pade tells us all about an amusement park in Paris that opened just before the French Revolution.

Dr. Miranda Spieler discusses the condition of 6 enslaved people in Paris. Was France the land of the free? How different was it from the colonies?

Famous French mystic Simone Weil's tragic final years and ideas are explored by scholar Elias Forneris.

Philippe II's reign comes to an end. He leaves behind a France that is stronger than it has ever been.

Renowned expo expert Charles Pappas talks about the World Expos that made France what it is today.

A look at Philippe II Augustus remarkable rule of the Kingdom of France.