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Book Synopsis Mémoires pour servir l'histoire du maréchal duc de Luxembourg by : François-Henri de Montmorency duc de Luxembourg
Download or read book Mémoires pour servir l'histoire du maréchal duc de Luxembourg written by François-Henri de Montmorency duc de Luxembourg and published by . This book was released on 1758 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nouvelle Collection Des Mémoires Pour Servir À L'histoire de France by : Joseph Fr. Michaud
Download or read book Nouvelle Collection Des Mémoires Pour Servir À L'histoire de France written by Joseph Fr. Michaud and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Affair of the Poisons by : Anne Somerset
Download or read book The Affair of the Poisons written by Anne Somerset and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Affair of the Poisons, as it became known, was an extraordinary episode that took place in France during the reign of Louis XIV. When poisoning and black magic became widespread, arrests followed. Suspects included those among the highest ranks of society. Many were tortured and numerous executions resulted. The 1676 torture and execution of the Marquise de Brinvilliers marked the start of the scandal which rocked the foundations of French society and sent shock waves through all of Europe. Convicted of conspiring with her adulterous lover to poison her father and brothers in order to secure the family fortune, the marquise was the first member of the noble class to fall. In the French court of the period, where sexual affairs were numerous, ladies were not shy of seeking help from the murkier elements of the Parisian underworld, and fortune-tellers supplemented their dubious trade by selling poison. It was not long before the authorities were led to believe that Louis XIV himself was at risk. With the police chief of Paris police alerted, every hint of danger was investigated. Rumors abounded and it was not long before the King ordered the setting up of a special commission to investigate the poisonings and bring offenders to justice. No one, the King decreed, no matter how grand, would be spared having to account for their conduct. The royal court was soon thrown into disarray. The Mistress of the Robes and a distinguished general were among the early suspects. But they paled into insignificance when the King's mistress was incriminated. If, as was said, she had engaged in vile Satanic rituals and had sought to poison a rival for the King's affections, what was Louis XIV to do? Anne Somerset has gone back to original sources, letters and earlier accounts of the affair. By the end of her account, she reaches firm conclusions on various crucial matters. The Affair of the Poisons is an enthralling account of a sometimes bizarre period in French history.
Book Synopsis Exile, Imprisonment, Or Death by : Julian Swann
Download or read book Exile, Imprisonment, Or Death written by Julian Swann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the accession of Louis XIII in 1610 following the assassination of his father, the Bourbon dynasty stood on unstable foundations. For all of Henri IV's undoubted achievements, he had left his son a realm that was still prey to the ambitions of an aristocracy that possessed independentmilitary force and was prepared to resort to violence and vendetta in order to defend its interests and honour. To establish his personal authority, Louis XIII was forced to resort to conspiracy and murder, and even then his authority was constantly challenged. Yet a little over a century later, asthe reign of Louis XIV drew to a close, such disobedience was impossible. Instead, a simple royal command expressing the sovereign's disgrace was sufficient to compel the most powerful men and women in the kingdom to submit to imprisonment or internal exile without a trial or an opportunity tojustify their conduct, abandoning their normal lives, leaving families, careers, offices, and possessions behind in obedience to their sovereign.To explain that transformation, this volume examines the development of this new "politics of disgrace", why it emerged, how it was conceptualised, the conventions that governed its use, and reactions to it, not only from the perspective of the monarch and his noble subjects, but also the greatcorporations of the realm and the wider public. Although that new model of disgrace proved remarkably successful, influencing the ideas and actions of the dominant social elites, it was nevertheless contested, and the critique of disgrace connects to the second aim of this work, which is to useshifting attitudes to the practice as a means of investigating the nature of Ancien Regime political culture and some of the dramatic and profound changes it experienced in the years separating Louis XIII's dramatic seizure of power from the French Revolution.
Book Synopsis Katalog der Privat-Bibliothek seiner Majestät des Königs von Hannover. [With] Nachtrags-Katalog by : L. Nolte
Download or read book Katalog der Privat-Bibliothek seiner Majestät des Königs von Hannover. [With] Nachtrags-Katalog written by L. Nolte and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV by : Guy Rowlands
Download or read book The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV written by Guy Rowlands and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-29 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'personal rule' of Louis XIV witnessed a massive increase in the size of the French army and an apparent improvement in the quality of its officers, its men and the War Ministry. However, this is the first book to treat the French army under Louis XIV as a living political, social and economic organism, an institution which reflected the dynastic interests and personal concerns of the king and his privileged subjects. The book explains the development of the army between the end of Cardinal Mazarin's ministry and the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession, emphasising the awareness of Louis XIV and his ministers of the need to pay careful attention to the condition of the king's officers, and to take account of their military, political, social and cultural aspirations.
Book Synopsis Memoires pour servir à l'histoire du marechal duc de Luxembourg depuis sa Naissance en 1628. jusqu' à sa Mort en 1695 ... écrits par lui-même by : François Henri de Montmorency de Luxembourg
Download or read book Memoires pour servir à l'histoire du marechal duc de Luxembourg depuis sa Naissance en 1628. jusqu' à sa Mort en 1695 ... écrits par lui-même written by François Henri de Montmorency de Luxembourg and published by . This book was released on 1758 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wars of Marlborough, 1702-1709 by : Frank Taylor
Download or read book The Wars of Marlborough, 1702-1709 written by Frank Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Encyclopaedia Britannica by : Hugh Chisholm
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopædia Britannica by : Franklin Henry Hooper
Download or read book The Encyclopædia Britannica written by Franklin Henry Hooper and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Obstinate Hebrews by : Ronald Schechter
Download or read book Obstinate Hebrews written by Ronald Schechter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-04-14 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlightenment writers, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon discussed and wrote about France's tiny Jewish population at great length. Why was there so much thinking about Jews when they were a minority of less than one percent and had little economic and virtually no political power? In this unusually wide-ranging study of representations of Jews in eighteenth-century France—both by Gentiles and Jews themselves—Ronald Schechteroffers fresh perspectives on the Enlightenment and French Revolution, on Jewish history, and on the nature of racism and intolerance. Informed by the latest historical scholarship and by the insights of cultural theory, Obstinate Hebrews is a fascinating tale of cultural appropriation cast in the light of modern society's preoccupation with the "other." Schechter argues that the French paid attention to the Jews because thinking about the Jews helped them reflect on general issues of the day. These included the role of tradition in religion, the perfectibility of human nature, national identity, and the nature of citizenship. In a conclusion comparing and contrasting the "Jewish question" in France with discourses about women, blacks, and Native Americans, Schechter provocatively widens his inquiry, calling for a more historically precise approach to these important questions of difference.
Book Synopsis Encyclopædia Britannica by : Walter Yust
Download or read book Encyclopædia Britannica written by Walter Yust and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris by : Holly Tucker
Download or read book City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris written by Holly Tucker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An artful reconstruction of seventeenth-century Paris with riveting storytelling." —The New Yorker In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to Paris after the brutal deaths of two magistrates. Reynie, pragmatic and fearless, discovers a network of witches, poisoners, and priests whose reach extends all the way to the king’s court at Versailles. Based on court transcripts and Reynie’s compulsive note-taking, Holly Tucker’s engrossing true-crime narrative makes the characters breathe on the page as she follows the police chief into the dark labyrinths of crime-ridden Paris, the halls of royal palaces, secret courtrooms, and torture chambers.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Lor to Mun by :
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Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Writers to His Majesty's Signet by : Signet Library (Great Britain)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Writers to His Majesty's Signet written by Signet Library (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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