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Author : Benjamin Bensley
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Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV and His Contemporaries written by Benjamin Bensley and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gustave Masson
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Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV and his contemporaries written by Gustave Masson and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gustave Masson
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Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book Louis XIV and his contemporaries as described in extracts from the best memoirs of the seventeenth century written by Gustave Masson and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gustave Masson
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ISBN 13 : 9783348063371
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV. and His Contemporaries written by Gustave Masson and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Bensley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365445562
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV. And His Contemporaries (Classic Reprint) written by Benjamin Bensley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Louis XIV. And His Contemporaries J ames - Marlborough finally reduces Ireland - Attempts to assassinate III. - Conduct of Louis to James II - Sketch. 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.
Author : Gustave Masson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259767008
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV and His Contemporaries written by Gustave Masson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Louis XIV And His Contemporaries: A Series Of Extracts From Memoirs Of The Seventeenth Century The richness of French literature in memoirs is proverbial, and there are indeed few nations in the world which can show such a long list of autobiographical treasures as that which swells the voluminous collections published by Messrs. Petitot and Monmerque, Buchon, or Michaud and Poujoulat. Look 5 at the brilliant gallery of portraits beginning with saint-gre gory of Tours and closing with the memoirs of Saint - Simon: what an exhaustless fund of information given from every point of view, and bearing every political nuance! As each important epoch in the annals of France passes before us, it ro leaves in our libraries materials of the most valuable kind for the better ascertaining of historic truth. Thus the statements given by the Armagnac Juvenal des Ursins can be compared with those derived from the Bourguignon Monstrelet under the ministry of Cardinal Mazarin, 'la grande M ademoz'selle's 15 fraudeur bias finds its corrective in Madame de Motteville during the empire, Bourrienne is rectified by the Duchess d'abrantes. 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.
Author : Philip Mansel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022669092X
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book King of the World written by Philip Mansel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis XIV was a man in pursuit of glory. Not content to be the ruler of a world power, he wanted the power to rule the world. And, for a time, he came tantalizingly close. Philip Mansel’s King of the World is the most comprehensive and up-to-date biography in English of this hypnotic, flawed figure who continues to captivate our attention. This lively work takes Louis outside Versailles and shows the true extent of his global ambitions, with stops in London, Madrid, Constantinople, Bangkok, and beyond. We witness the importance of his alliance with the Spanish crown and his success in securing Spain for his descendants, his enmity with England, and his relations with the rest of Europe, as well as Asia, Africa, and the Americas. We also see the king’s effect on the two great global diasporas of Huguenots and Jacobites, and their influence on him as he failed in his brutal attempts to stop Protestants from leaving France. Along the way, we are enveloped in the splendor of Louis’s court and the fascinating cast of characters who prostrated and plotted within it. King of the World is exceptionally researched, drawing on international archives and incorporating sources who knew the king intimately, including the newly released correspondence of Louis’s second wife, Madame de Maintenon. Mansel’s narrative flair is a perfect match for this grand figure, and he brings the Sun King’s world to vivid life. This is a global biography of a global king, whose power was extensive but also limited by laws and circumstances, and whose interests and ambitions stretched far beyond his homeland. Through it all, we watch Louis XIV progressively turn from a dazzling, attractive young king to a belligerent reactionary who sets France on the path to 1789. It is a convincing and compelling portrait of a man who, three hundred years after his death, still epitomizes the idea of le grand monarque.
Author : Gustave Masson
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Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book French classics: Louis XIV and his contemporaries written by Gustave Masson and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
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Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV written by John Stevens Cabot Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Georgia Cowart
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226116387
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Triumph of Pleasure written by Georgia Cowart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia J. Cowart tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority.
Author : Benjamin Bensley
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Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (966 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV. And His Contemporaries. By Benjamin Bensley, Author of "Henry the Eighth and His Contemporaries," and Other Works written by Benjamin Bensley and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Meredith Martin
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606067303
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Sun King at Sea written by Meredith Martin and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV. Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended were fundamental to the politics and propaganda of France’s King Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715). Yet most studies of French art in this period focus on Paris and Versailles, overlooking the presence or portrayal of galley slaves on the kingdom’s coasts. By examining a wide range of artistic productions—ship design, artillery sculpture, medals, paintings, and prints—Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss uncover a vital aspect of royal representation and unsettle a standard picture of art and power in early modern France. With an abundant selection of startling images, many never before published, The Sun King at Sea emphasizes the role of esclaves turcs (enslaved Turks)—rowers who were captured or purchased from Islamic lands—in building and decorating ships and other art objects that circulated on land and by sea to glorify the Crown. Challenging the notion that human bondage vanished from continental France, this cross-disciplinary volume invites a reassessment of servitude as a visible condition, mode of representation, and symbol of sovereignty during Louis XIV’s reign.
Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300059434
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (594 download)
Download or read book The Fabrication of Louis XIV written by Peter Burke and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis XIV was a man like any other, but the money and attention lavished on his public image by the French government transformed him into a godlike figure. In this engrossing book, an internationally respected historian gives an account of contemporary representations of Louis XIV and shows how the making of the royal image illuminates the relationship between art and power. Images of Louis XIV included hundreds of oil paintings and engravings, three-hundred-odd medals struck to commemorate the major events of the reign, sculptures, and bronzes, as well as plays, ballets (in which the king himself sometimes appeared on stage), operas, odes, sermons, official newspapers and histories, fireworks, fountains, and tapestries. Drawing on an analysis of these representations as well as on surviving documentary sources, Peter Burke shows the conscious attempt to "invent" the image of the king and reveals how the supervision of the royal image was entrusted to a commitee, the so-called small academy. This book is not only a fascinating chronological study of the mechanics of the image-making of a king over the course of a seventy-year reign but is also an investigation into the genre of cultural construction. Burke discusses the element of propaganda implicit in image-making, the manipulation of seventeenth-century media of communication (oral, visual, and textual) and their codes (literary and artistic), and the intended audience and its response. He concludes by comparing and contrasting Louis's public image with that of other rulers ranging from Augustus to contemporary American presidents.
Author : Aurora von Goeth
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526726424
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV written by Aurora von Goeth and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise, straightforward biography of the seventeenth-century French monarch and his seventy-two-year reign. Innovator. Tyrant. Consummate showman. Passionate lover of women. After the death of King Louis XIII in 1643, the French crown went to his first-born son and heir, four-year old Louis XIV. In the extraordinary seventy-two years that followed, Louis le Grand—France’s self-styled “Sun King”—ruled France and its people, leaving his unique and permanent mark on history and shaping fashion, art, culture and architecture like none other before. This frank and concise book gives the reader a personal glimpse into the Sun King’s life and times as we follow his rise in power and influence: from a miraculous royal birth no one ever expected to the rise of king as absolute monarch, through the evolution of the glittering Château de Versailles, scandals and poison, four wars and many more mistresses . . . right up to his final days. Absolute monarch. Appointed by God. This is Louis XIV, the man. We will uncover his glorious and not-so-glorious obsessions. His debilitating health issues. His drive and passions. And we will dispel some myths, plus reveal the people in his intimate circle working behind the scenes on the Louis propaganda machine to ensure his legacy stayed in the history books forever. This easy-to-read narrative is accompanied by a plethora of little-known artworks, so if you’re a Louis XIV fan or student, or just eager to know more about France’s most famous king, we invite you to delve into court life of seventeenth-century French aristocracy, the period known as Le Grand Siècle—“The Grand Century.”
Author : Michel (Prince of Greece)
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Louis XIV written by Michel (Prince of Greece) and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis XIV, whose great prestige earned him the title of "the Sun King," is the most famous of all the French kings. He ruled France in one of its most glorious periods, and remains to this day the supreme symbol of absolute monarchy. Now, in a brilliant new biography, Prince Michael of Greece has revealed a darker side to the Sun King. Drawing on detailed evidence from contemporary records, letters and memoirs, he explored the possibility that, underneath it all, this epitome of kingship was a shy, weak, unstable man of unexpected and intriguing complexity. Prince Michael assesses the continued and enduring influence of Cardinal Mazarin and Louis' mother, Anne of Austria, on the little boy who came to the throne at the age of five but who learned early on to hide his profound insecurity behind the ever more elaborate trappings of monarchy. Here, then, is a vivid portrait of a not particularly intelligent king, secretly poring over textbooks, preferring to command sieges rather than battles because they were more convenient, whose voracious sexual appetite right into his seventies flouted the very conventions he himself tried to impose on a reluctant court at Versailles. Without simply debunking Louis, Prince Michael of Greece succeeds in presenting an iconoclastic biography which shatters many of the accepted myths about the man and his century. The result is a glimpse of the human frailties and inadequacies that lay behind the arrogance, protocol and pageantry of France's greatest king. - Jacket flap.
Author : Peter Fuhring
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606064509
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A Kingdom of Images written by Peter Fuhring and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once considered the golden age of French printmaking, Louis XIV’s reign saw Paris become a powerhouse of print production. During this time, the king aimed to make fine and decorative arts into signs of French taste and skill and, by extension, into markers of his imperialist glory. Prints were ideal for achieving these goals; reproducible and transportable, they fueled the sophisticated propaganda machine circulating images of Louis as both a man of war and a man of culture. This richly illustrated catalogue features more than one hundred prints from the Getty Research Institute and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, whose print collection Louis XIV established in 1667. An esteemed international group of contributors investigates the ways that cultural policies affected printmaking; explains what constitutes a print; describes how one became a printmaker; studies how prints were collected; and considers their reception in the ensuing centuries. A Kingdom of Images is published to coincide with an exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute from June 18 through September 6, 2015, and at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris from November 2, 2015, through January 31, 2016.
