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Book Synopsis Little Duchess, Anne of Brittany by : Emma L. Brock
Download or read book Little Duchess, Anne of Brittany written by Emma L. Brock and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of Anne, Duchess of Brittany, Twice Queen of France by : Louisa Stuart Costello
Download or read book Memoirs of Anne, Duchess of Brittany, Twice Queen of France written by Louisa Stuart Costello and published by London : W. & F.G. Cash. This book was released on 1855 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Twice Queen of France by : Mildred Allen Butler
Download or read book Twice Queen of France written by Mildred Allen Butler and published by Sylvia Engdahl. This book was released on 2011-03-20 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography for teens of a strong, independent woman of the 15th century. Anne of Brittany was only 12 when, in 1488, she became its Duchess, but already she was among the best-educated women of her era and she was determined to preserve the duchy’s independence. At 15 she averted takeover by France when she married its king, Charles VIII, and after he died she married his successor, Louis XII, becoming the only person ever twice crowned Queen of France. Foreword by Sylvia Louise Engdahl, the author’s daughter. Illustrated with 16th-century portraits. “The life of Anne of Brittany is traced in detail against a vivid background of court life during the Renaissance. . . . Useful to schools for its portrayal of the times, this has enough romance to appeal to girls.”—ALA Booklist
Book Synopsis Anne of Brittany by : Helen Josephine Sanborn
Download or read book Anne of Brittany written by Helen Josephine Sanborn and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cultural and Political Legacy of Anne de Bretagne by : Cynthia Jane Brown
Download or read book The Cultural and Political Legacy of Anne de Bretagne written by Cynthia Jane Brown and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A queen who helped define the cultural landscape of her era. As duchess of Brittany [1491-1514] and twice queen of France [1491-98; 1498-1514], Anne de Bretagne set a benchmark by which to measure the status of female authority in Europe at the dawn of the Renaissance. Although at times a traditional political pawn, when men who ruled her life were involved in reshaping European alliances, Anne was directly or indirectly involved with the principal political and religious European leaders of her time and helped define the cultural landscape of her era. Taking a variety of cross-disciplinary perspectives, these ten essays by art historians, literary specialists, historians, and political scientists contribute to the ongoing discussion ofAnne de Bretagne and seek to prompt further investigations into her cultural and political impact. At the same time, they offer insight of a broader nature into related areas of intellectual interest - patronage, the history of the book, the power and definition of queenship and the interpretation of politico-cultural documents and court spectacles - thereby confirming the extensive nature of Anne's legacy. CYNTHIA J. BROWN is Professor of French at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Book Synopsis Anne of Brittany; the Story of a Duchess and Twice-Crowned Queen by : Helen Josephine Sanborn
Download or read book Anne of Brittany; the Story of a Duchess and Twice-Crowned Queen written by Helen Josephine Sanborn and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER n THE FATHER OF THE DUCHESS ANNE, THE LAST DUKE OF BRITTANY In our quest for the Duchess Anne we want to know something of her father, Francis II, the last duke of Brittany. He was the son of Richard, count of Etampes, the grandson of John IV, the conqueror, who was the Englishman, John of Montfort. At the age of twenty-three Francis II came to the dukedom, not through his father, but through his uncle, Arthur of Brittany, who had no children. February 3, 1458, with his widowed mother, Marguerite of Orleans, Francis journeyed to Rennes for his coronation. Clad in deep mourning, as was the custom, he entered the city by the Porte Mordelaise, and, on his knees, humbly demanded the keys of the town. The bishop then opened the gate and led the way to the cathedral, where the ceremony was performed. The crown placed upon the head of Francis was a closed one, like that of a king, and not the open circle of the French dukes. At that time Rennes was much smaller than it is to-day, and had narrow, winding streets, with houses almost meeting at the top. We passed under the old arch which the dukes once entered, but the narrow, out-of-the-way street and the arch itself, which we stopped to photograph, is now a tenement for the poor and no longer suggests pomp, power, or splendor. As the duke began his reign two years before that of Louis XI, he saw three sovereigns on the throne of France, --Charles VII, Louis XI, and Charles VIII. About three weeks after he was crowned Francis presented himself before Charles VII, king of France. As the duke did not make obeisance nor take off his arms and girdle, the master of ceremonies said, "Lord of Brittany, you must pay homage to your king and sovereign lord and promise to him faith and loyalty...".
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Book Synopsis A Twice Crowned Queen: Anne of Brittany by : countess Constance Mary Elizabeth Cochrane-Baillie Sackville De La Warr
Download or read book A Twice Crowned Queen: Anne of Brittany written by countess Constance Mary Elizabeth Cochrane-Baillie Sackville De La Warr and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs Of Anne, Duchess Of Brittany, Twice Queen Of France by : Louisa Stuart Costello
Download or read book Memoirs Of Anne, Duchess Of Brittany, Twice Queen Of France written by Louisa Stuart Costello and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a biography of Anne of Brittany, a prominent figure in French history who served as queen consort of France twice in the late fifteenth century. The book offers insights into the life and times of this remarkable woman, and provides a valuable contribution to the history of France in the late Middle Ages. The book will appeal to anyone interested in biography, history and women's studies. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Anne of Brittany by : Helen Josephine Sanborn
Download or read book Anne of Brittany written by Helen Josephine Sanborn and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Anne of Brittany: The Story of a Duchess and Twice-Crowned Queen Is it a fulfillment of her own prophecy that since she was a Breton and a foreign queen, she would not long be remembered by the French people? The reason then for this volume is plain: to fill a gap in our book shelves on a neglected subject, and to share with others the pleasure and interest of knowing intimately the life story of one of the world's great women. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Anne and Louis written by Rozsa Gaston and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the General Fiction category of the Publishers Weekly 2018 BookLife Prize, Anne and Louis is the story of the early years of Anne of Brittany's marriage to Louis XII, King of France. Book Two of the Anne of Brittany Series, of which Anne and Charles is Book One.
Book Synopsis Twice-crowned Queen by : Countess Constance De La Warr
Download or read book Twice-crowned Queen written by Countess Constance De La Warr and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anne of Brittany written by Helen Sanborn and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne of Brittany is a biography of the Duchess and Twice-Crowned Queen.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of Anne by : Louisa Stuart Costello
Download or read book Memoirs of Anne written by Louisa Stuart Costello and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grave Mercy written by Robin LaFevers and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.
Download or read book Queen Anne written by Anne Somerset and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain’s last Stuart monarch, and five years later united two of her realms, England and Scotland, as a sovereign state, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. She had a history of personal misfortune, overcoming ill health (she suffered from crippling arthritis; by the time she became Queen she was a virtual invalid) and living through seventeen miscarriages, stillbirths, and premature births in seventeen years. By the end of her comparatively short twelve-year reign, Britain had emerged as a great power; the succession of outstanding victories won by her general, John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, had humbled France and laid the foundations for Britain’s future naval and colonial supremacy. While the Queen’s military was performing dazzling exploits on the continent, her own attention—indeed her realm—rested on a more intimate conflict: the female friendship on which her happiness had for decades depended and which became for her a source of utter torment. At the core of Anne Somerset’s riveting new biography, published to great acclaim in England (“Definitive”—London Evening Standard; “Wonderfully pacy and absorbing”—Daily Mail), is a portrait of this deeply emotional, complex bond between two very different women: Queen Anne—reserved, stolid, shrewd; and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, wife of the Queen’s great general—beautiful, willful, outspoken, whose acerbic wit was equally matched by her fearsome temper. Against a fraught background—the revolution that deposed Anne’s father, James II, and brought her to power . . . religious differences (she was born Protestant—her parents’ conversion to Catholicism had grave implications—and she grew up so suspicious of the Roman church that she considered its doctrines “wicked and dangerous”) . . . violently partisan politics (Whigs versus Tories) . . . a war with France that lasted for almost her entire reign . . . the constant threat of foreign invasion and civil war—the much-admired historian, author of Elizabeth I (“Exhilarating”—The Spectator; “Ample, stylish, eloquent”—The Washington Post Book World), tells the extraordinary story of how Sarah goaded and provoked the Queen beyond endurance, and, after the withdrawal of Anne’s favor, how her replacement, Sarah’s cousin, the feline Abigail Masham, became the ubiquitous royal confidante and, so Sarah whispered to growing scandal, the object of the Queen's sexual infatuation. To write this remarkably rich and passionate biography, Somerset, winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, has made use of royal archives, parliamentary records, personal correspondence and previously unpublished material. Queen Anne is history on a large scale—a revelation of a centuries-overlooked monarch.
Book Synopsis A Twice Crowned Queen by : Countess Constance De La Warr
Download or read book A Twice Crowned Queen written by Countess Constance De La Warr and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France by : Kathleen Wellman
Download or read book Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France written by Kathleen Wellman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses.