Set in British India in the mid-19th century, Lakmé is based on the 1880 novel by Pierre Loti.

Set in mid-19th century Japan, a few years before the Meiji Restoration, it follows the life of Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai employed as a bureaucrat.

Set in the reign of Jeroboam II ( 786-746 BC ), it was probably written in the post-exilic period, sometime between the late fifth to early fourth century BC.

Set in the 17th century, it's a historical romance concerning one of Paul Christopher's ancestors, the English-born Fanny Harding.

Files: Set in Kipling's 21st century airship utopia.

Set in the 24th century from the year 2371 through 2378, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, which becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant 75, 000 light-years from Earth while pursuing a renegade Maquis ship.

Set in the 22nd century, it describes the construction of a space elevator.

Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero le Chevalier Des Grieux and his lover Manon Lescaut.

Set in the mid through late 19th century, it depicts his friendship with noted painter Paul Cézanne, and his rise to fame through his prolific writing, with particular focus on his involvement in the Dreyfus affair.

Set in the 19th century, it explores the events which follow the accidental capture of a group of English children by pirates: the children are revealed as considerably more amoral than the pirates ( it was in this novel that Hughes first described the cocktail Hangman's Blood ).

In the late 20th century, Griffiths focused on the inconsistent portrayal of Horus and Set as brothers and as uncle and nephew.

* Set a century after the Russian Revolution, 2017 is a novel by Olga Slavnikova, and the winner of the 2006 Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize.

Set in the 12th century, Penman presents the young Justin de Quincy as a medieval sleuth.

Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century.

Set on an intervale surrounded by the Western Maine Mountains, Roxbury was noted in the 19th century for abundant forests and mineral deposits.

Set around an 18th century listed stone fountain, she divided the garden into four large, colourful herbaceous beds surrounded by L shaped borders stocked with roses and catmint with an acorn shaped yew marking each corner.

The actual beliefs and influence of the Cliveden Set is a matter of some dispute, though most historians of the period in the late 20th century came to consider the Cliveden Set allegations to be exaggerated.

Set in the late 18th century to the late 1980s, the story follows the 200-year-long life of the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, and his rise from humble beginnings as an impoverished aristocrat in the countryside of France to the city of Paris to become a vain and arrogant vampire.

Set in mid-nineteenth century New Zealand it is a semi-fictionalized account of the story of the Māori leader Te Kooti, told from the perspective of one of his pursuers, an officer in the colonial army.

Set in mid-nineteenth century New Zealand, the story is a semi-fictionalized account of Titokowaru's War, told from the perspective of Kimball Bent.

Set in the Wild West during the nineteenth century, the movie was a sex comedy that starred Divine as Rosie Velez, a promiscuous woman who works as a singer in saloons and competes for the love of Abel Wood ( Tab Hunter ) against another woman.

Set in the 17th century, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d ' Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard.

Set in the 19th century, strong believers of legends, myths and superstition search for fame, fortune and glory.

The novel narrates main character Janie Crawford's " ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny .” Set in central and southern Florida in the early 20th century, the novel was initially poorly received for its rejection of racial uplift literary prescriptions.

Set in Canada, it is narrated from the present day, referring back to events that span the twentieth century.

Set in the final years of the 19th century, Mrs Craddock is about a young and attractive woman of independent means who marries beneath her.

Set in Paris in 1828, it was voted Best French Film of the Century in a poll of 600 French critics and professionals in the late 1990s.

Set in New York, Venice, and Paris, the film features singing by actors not usually known for their singing.

Set mainly in Paris in 1979, the plot concerns a scheme by an alien, Scaroth, to steal the Mona Lisa to finance experiments in time travel in the hope of averting the accident that marooned him on Earth four hundred million years previously, which also began the existence of life on the planet as well.

Set in contemporary Paris, the movie is a variation of the classic Greek myth of Orpheus.

Set design for the world premiere of the ballet Daphnis et Chloë ( music by Maurice Ravel ), Paris 1912.

Set during World War II in occupied Paris, and inspired by the romantic novel The Lady of the Camellias ( by Alexandre Dumas, fils ), Marguerite is about the mistress of a high-ranking German officer who attracts the love of a pianist half her age.

Set during World War II in occupied Paris, and inspired by the romantic novel La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, Marguerite is about the mistress of a high-ranking German officer who attracts the love of a musician half her age.

Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot ; a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin ; and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac.

Set on the Orient Express in 1914, the player takes on the role of Robert Cath, an American doctor on the train's final journey from Paris to Constantinople ( modern Istanbul ) before World War I. Cath, already wanted by French police as he is suspected of the murder of an Irish police officer, is contacted urgently by his old friend Tyler Whitney, to join him on the Orient Express, gateway to the East, and a possible exit from all his troubles.

Set in France ( primarily Paris ) during the late 1920s and early 1930s, Tropic of Cancer centers around Miller's life as a struggling writer.

From November 1977 the Concorde was flying between standard Jet Set destinations, London or Paris to New York ; passenger lists on initial flights were gossip-column material.

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Set in 1920s Paris, and featuring a female Creeper, it was somewhat different from its predecessor.

Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire.

Set in the early 1920s, it follows a young Lithuanian sculptor named Tomas Stumbras who, in the war-torn early years of his country's independence, leaves his home on a Lithuanian farm and travels to Paris to launch his art career.

Set in Paris, the film follows Philipe Guérande ( Mathé ), a journalist and detective, and his friend Oscar-Cloud Mazamette ( Lévesque ) who become involved in trying to uncover and stop a bizarre underground Apache known as The Vampires ( who are not the mythological beings their name suggests ), primarily focusing on one of the gang's ring-leaders Irma Vep ( Musidora ).

Set in the year 2023, the book follows Alcide Nikopol return to Paris after spending 30 years frozen in space as a punishment for dodging the draft.