This is the fifth volume of Fremeaux's collection, about French History. Directed by Claude Gauvard, an esteemed historian and college Professor, in coedition with famed editor "Presses Universitaires de France" (PUF), this collection proposes historical lectures on French history by the best specialists of the different periods. In this 5 CDs boxed set Olivier Coquard tells us the history of France during the Enlightment Century, prior to the French Revolution until the end of Napoleon reign. In French.

"Babik Reinhardt’s reunion with Romane, together with the irresistible talent of new-arrival Florin Niculescu on violin, made the New Quintette du Hot Club de France a genuine reference in French jazz. Their record, polished in Didier Lockwood’s studio, was more than a tribute or a reference to the past: fifty years on, it brought right up to date the heritage that had given birth to their art. Long before the Gypsy Swing phenomenon, Babik Reinhardt, the son of Django, and Romane, one of the greatest disciples of the jazz guitar Maestro, created the New Quintette du Hot-Club de France; they also created a resolutely modern approach which stamped the pages of contemporary jazz with the heritage of the Master." Benjamin GOLDENSTEIN & Patrick FReMEAUX

“In the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, Francois Jouffa and Serge Roterman undertook several expeditions in Latin America, first in Mexico, with the aim of recording popular and religious musics. They had felt there was an urgent need as the Amerindians were already in a process of both miscegenation and acculturation. This disc therefore contains a precious document: the last plaints of the Lacandones, at that time the last pure Maya tribe of the Chiapas selva, on the borders of Mexico and Guatemala. The art of music thus captured shows a collective, functional and also esoteric and sacred character that the booklet of 24 pages brings forth. Forty years later, these recordings that are exceptionally well preserved, attest the existence of living tradition, an immaterial heritage orally transmitted for centuries and whose principal representatives have now disappeared. These musics by the Amerindians of Mexico constitute an immersion into a dreamlike world, out of time and of space, in which resonate the echoes of ancient legends.” Benjamin Goldenstein & Patrick Fremeaux

Transported into the heart of the countryside, up into alpine foothills of Isere in south-eastern France, to the edge of a large clearing, the listener experiences the morning concert of a variety of forest creatures in the springtime. Birds, insects and mammals celebrate the sunshine, mark their territory and salute their friends. The brilliant exuberance of the birds in choir envelops the listener in a magical world. Patrick FReMEAUX

Here's a conducted and commented tour of a natural space to allow the younger generation to discover the beauty of nature in it's sound dimension. This CD presents the life of the sea - dolphins, whales, sea lions, sea gulls, cormorants, storms, waves, a boat's horn, fishermen and an auction at a market. It's like being surrounded by the sea. The narration text between the animal sounds is in French.

(2-CD set) These two cds represent for the first time two distinct but intrinsically important Bangladeshi themes : traditional songs of love and life in the river country and the songs of the Freedom Fighters which played a vital role in influencing the birth of Bnagladesh out of the ashes of East Pakistan.

Classical Music

Released to coincide with the reopening of France's national Gustave Moreau Museum, this DVD release from Fr�meaux & Associ�s features Nelly Kaplan's film presentation of the masterpieces housed within the museum. The DVD also contains three short films in which she presents the graphical works of Victor Hugo and Rodolphe Bresdin together with the famous Walter-Guillaume Collection at the Orangerie Museum in Paris.

(2-CD set) Fremeaux presents, for the first time ever, under the direction of the well-known bio acoustician ornithologist Jean-Claude Roche, a sound guide allowing the listener to recognize 198 species of common west European birds from their voices. Songs and common calls are inclued for each species in a 2-CD set box with 198 tracks.

This CD features a new production for the children (recommended to 4 to 8 years old kids): Les Trois petits cochons (The Three Little Pigs) plus three other tales, interpreted by actress Clotilde Courau and sung by the choir of children of the CREA (a famed musical school). In French

Armed with their swords and muskets, the musketeers are the embodiment of bravery and loyalty, and D’Artagnan, like many young men, dreamed of traveling from his native Gascony to join the ranks of this elite. An unbeatable fighter, D’Artagnan also has a sense of honor very close to pride and he quickly finds himself at the heart of all dangers. With Athos, Porthos and Aramis, D’Artagnan must protect the king and save Queen Anne from the shenanigans of Cardinal Richelieu; all the stability of the kingdom rests on his shoulders. This mythical account of adventure, love and friendship is told for the first time in its integral version. The remarkable interpretation of Bernard Bollet brings to life the masterpiece of Alexandre Dumas, the most fascinating novel of cape and sword.

(3-CD box set) The works of Descartes are read by famed French actor, Jacques Bonaffe. Readings are in the French language.

This 4 CD audiobook delivers a selection of Novels choosen among the early Fantasy style in the 19th century's literature: Maupassant (Le Horla and La Chevelure), Edgar Allan Poe (Le Chat noir and Le Cœur revelateur), Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly (Le Bonheur dans le crime), Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (Vera and Vox Populi and Les Demoiselles de BienfilAtre). Audiobook in French read by Pierre Bellemare.

"This 3 CD set features the historical reading of Francois Mauriac’s « Le Desert de l’amour », by Jean Negroni, broadcasted in 1955. Mauriac’s book (© Editions Grasset & Fasquelle 1925) was awarded Grand Prix du Roman from the prestigious Academie Francaise in 1925. Audiobook in French." Claude Colombini

(3-CD box set) Confucius was a master, whose thinking was delivered through his teaching. The "Conversation" with Confucius, read in this set by famous actor Robin Renucci, allows the "Learning" by a human being naturaly perfectible. The Eastern wisdom of Confucius lays on the faith in the possibility of perfecting mankind, and his books were written for this purpose.