Vanessa Pontet

In this episode of Secrets d’Histoire, Stéphane Bern explores the life of a great queen of the Middle Ages: Eleanor of Aquitaine. A passionate and loving woman, ahead of her time. She goes on a crusade, she gets divorced... It is also thanks to her that the legend of King Arthur will be born.

The life of Anne of Brittany was an extraordinary adventure of love, betrayal, desperation and jealousy. Married at 14 to King Charles VIII, then seven years later to King Louis XII, she united her Duchy with its historic enemy: France. Throughout her life, Anne, a woman of great intelligence, devoted herself to the administration of her duchy and jealously guarded its autonomy, but in the end her daughter Claude, Anne's heir, was betrothed to Francis of Angoulême, the future Francis I and Brittany was finally absorbed into the kingdom of France.

A year of access to Prince Albert II’s day-to-day life and Monaco’s modern monarchy, mixing palace routines, public duties, and the principality’s image-making and power structures.

Politics divides people, but food brings them together. Working for the royal couple, H.S.H. Prince Albert II and H.S.H. Princess Charlene of Monaco, chef Christian Garcia prepares special meals for the Grimaldi family and organizes large receptions at the Palace. We follow the daily lives of the Chamberlain, the valets, the laundresses, the gardeners, the silversmiths, and all the staff of the Palace of Monaco, who preserve centuries-old traditions in the art of hospitality.

In this episode of Secrets d’Histoire, Stéphane Bern explores the life of a great queen of the Middle Ages: Eleanor of Aquitaine. A passionate and loving woman, ahead of her time. She goes on a crusade, she gets divorced... It is also thanks to her that the legend of King Arthur will be born.

The life of Anne of Brittany was an extraordinary adventure of love, betrayal, desperation and jealousy. Married at 14 to King Charles VIII, then seven years later to King Louis XII, she united her Duchy with its historic enemy: France. Throughout her life, Anne, a woman of great intelligence, devoted herself to the administration of her duchy and jealously guarded its autonomy, but in the end her daughter Claude, Anne's heir, was betrothed to Francis of Angoulême, the future Francis I and Brittany was finally absorbed into the kingdom of France.

A year of access to Prince Albert II’s day-to-day life and Monaco’s modern monarchy, mixing palace routines, public duties, and the principality’s image-making and power structures.

Politics divides people, but food brings them together. Working for the royal couple, H.S.H. Prince Albert II and H.S.H. Princess Charlene of Monaco, chef Christian Garcia prepares special meals for the Grimaldi family and organizes large receptions at the Palace. We follow the daily lives of the Chamberlain, the valets, the laundresses, the gardeners, the silversmiths, and all the staff of the Palace of Monaco, who preserve centuries-old traditions in the art of hospitality.