The constant smile of the eternally amiable Jacques Perdrot often complicates his life. Appointed ch…
In order to take part in a "tournoi des dames", Narcisse Leblond persuades his wife that he is going…
When a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the betrothed …
Pisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his own fa…
The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine Empir…
If an old man's niece does not claim her inheritance at the notary's office by the appointed time, h…