Lorànt Deutsch podcasts and interviews

LEGEND

Paris street names hide Roman roads, royal surgery and medieval cures that still shape the city's past and present.

Nov 9, 2026 01:56:00 128 min read 6 views

Entrez dans l'Histoire

Charles V gave up an empire where the sun never set, then spent his last years surrounded by clocks and automata.

Nov 9, 2026 19:43 12 min read 6 views

Entrez dans l'Histoire

An emperor's sudden abdication, France's first railway line and a Medici astrologer who seemed to predict events.

Nov 8, 2026 04:38 4 min read 14 views

Entrez dans l'Histoire

How one writer beat the Goncourt's once-only rule by winning twice under a pseudonym, with a cousin posing as the author.

Nov 7, 2026 03:07 3 min read 11 views

Entrez dans l'Histoire

Plots, English alliances and a failed claim to the French crown: the fourteenth-century rise and fall of a rival prince.

Nov 4, 2026 20:16 11 min read 11 views

Entrez dans l'Histoire

A queen with no archaeological trace, yet a legend spanning a dragon, a djinn, riddles and a tomb in Nigeria.

Nov 2, 2026 20:29 12 min read 11 views