Yigal Liverant is a doctoral student in the Department of History at Tel Aviv University, but he is better known to the wider public as the translator of the acclaimed Fandorin book series. On the site he writes about French history and the figures who shaped it, from Catherine de' Medici to the French Revolution.
Hot off the pressFrench culture · November 13, 2026
Louis XIII is known to us from The Three Musketeers as a weak-willed king, but was he really? Yigal Liverant brings us 35 facts that will change how you see him.
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