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This book focuses on one of the bloodiest events in French history – St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572, when thousands of French Protestants were massacred in Paris and across the country.
The biography The Life of Byron (1930) by André Maurois, is a detailed account of the life and works of the English Romantic poet George Gordon Byron (1788–1824).
In his novels Eugenie Grandet (1833) and The Museum of Antiquities (1837), Balzac explores universal themes of greed, human passions, sacrifice, and moral dilemmas, placing them in different social contexts of 19th-century French society.
Therese the Wise (1748) is an erotic novel by an anonymous author (probably the Marquis d'Argens), mixing the philosophy of the Lumières with explicit scenes. With an introduction by Michel Camus and a foreword by Philippe Roger.