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Phileas Fogg has bet that he can travel around the world in 80 days. Accompanied by the faithful Passepartout, Fogg embarks on an impressive race against time. Our heroes meet with a series of exciting adventures as they attempt…

Emerge yourself in the mysterious world of Maupassant with these four short stories. Shiver as you listen to the story about an old Marquis, share the tragic destiny of Matilde, listen to the confession of a woman on her deathbed…

Young Candide is driven from the castle where he once lived happily, surrounded by the optimistic Pangloss and his beloved Cunégonde. Unfamiliar with the cruelty of men, Candide faces war and the Inquisition, leading the…

A story of love and death which retells the tragic relationship between a gypsy, Carmen, and a soldier, Brigadier Don José, which turns Carmen into a smuggler, outlaw and murderer. This story was the inspiration for the famous…

Marie Curie is universally famous in science. Her passion for scientific research, her unrivalled energy and determination led to the incredible discovery of radium and its applications. Even now, her amazing life – from Warsaw…

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is about to be made captain and soon to be married. But his life falls apart because of other people’s jealousy and cruelty. Twenty years later, Edmond – who has become the wealthy Count of…

In an underwater excavation site under the lake of Saint-Malo in Brittany, there is the theft of an 18th-century treasure chest. Chief suspects are an archeologist and a diver. Three cousins, Sophie, Gaël and Loïc, accompanied…

Who is the mysterious ghost haunting the corridors of the Paris Opera? Christine has made a terrifying pact with him that she must not break. Will the singer’s friends save her? The story unfolds in the great Parisian theatre,…

The curtain rises and the audience is shocked to discover that the prima ballerina has suddenly disappeared. Will police commissioner Morand, accompanied by the music of Bach, be able to solve the mystery?

Étienne Lantier, a previously unemployed young man, is hired to work in a mine in the north of France. Highly regarded and listened to, he dreams of changing the workers’ miserable conditions. When the Mining Company decides to…

After nineteen years in prison for having stolen some bread, Jean Valjean, thanks to his meeting with the bishop of Digne, Monsignor Myriel, decides to dedicate the rest of his life to doing good. Some years later, he becomes the…

At the height of the French Revolution, the aristocrats’ greatest fear is the guillotine. But some manage to escape their terrible destiny with the help of a mysterious man, the Scarlet Pimpernel. Who is this extraordinarily…

Paris, 1482. The destinies of four characters intertwine in the shadow of the majestic cathedral of Notre-Dame: Esmeralda, the beautiful gypsy; Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer; Claude Frollo, the evil archdeacon and Pierre…

Perceval leaves his mother to live a peaceful life in the woods. However, one day he meets a group of knights who have arrived from Camelot, King Arthur’s castle. Perceval then decides to become one of the Knights of the Round…

Julien Sorel, a poor but very ambitious boy, becomes a tutor of the children of Mr. de Rênal. After falling in love with the wife Mr. de Rênal, Julien leaves the family. The he joins the seminary and falls in love with the…