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Author : Louis Bertrand
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Private Life of Louis XIV. Translated by Paul Morin written by Louis Bertrand and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Bertrand
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Private Life of Louis XIV. Tr. by Paul Morin written by Louis Bertrand and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Louis Marie Émile BERTRAND
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (557 download)
Download or read book The Private Life of Louis XIV ... Translated by Paul Thorin. [With a Portrait.]. written by Louis Marie Émile BERTRAND and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1872 pages
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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Historical Association (Great Britain)
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Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature written by Historical Association (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Bertrand
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Total Pages : 189 pages
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Download or read book Louis XIV written by Louis Bertrand and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olivier Bernier
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1640191437
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV written by Olivier Bernier and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis XIV - the Sun King or Louis the Great, as he was also known - ruled France with an iron fist for over half a century, from 1651 to his death in 1715, outliving his son and even his grandson. His court at the Palace of Versailles became the most dazzling on the Continent, and through his intelligence and cunning, he made France the leading power of Europe. Now, in this masterful biography, historian Olivier Bernier brilliantly recreates Louis XIV's world to reveal the secrets of this monarch's unequaled sovereignty and to explore the singular mystique that surrounds him today. Not only was Louis heir to his father's throne, he felt he was divinely chosen to rule France. From the year he became king at the age of thirteen, he oversaw every aspect of government, from waging war and making political appointments to supervising the building of his many palaces. Along with political treachery that marked Louis XIV's long reign, Bernier also brings to light the personal scandals. We witness the poignant resignation of Louis XIV's queen to her husband's parade of mistresses and illegitimate children, the infamous intrigue when the king's brother was accused of poisoning his wife in a jealous rage, and the momentous building of Versailles, not an act of monstrous self-indulgence that bankrupted the nation but the visible expression of Louis XIV's new monarchy - his ingenious methods of centering all activity around court life, thus preventing his courtiers from fomenting rebellion. Under the Sun King, architecture, painting, music, and theater flourished, making France not only a great political force but a paradigm of fashion and culture as well. Louis XIV takes us from the grandeur of Versailles to the battlefields of the countryside, from the bedrooms of the king's mistresses to the chambers of his ministers, and presents an engrossing portrait of royal life and a commanding leader.
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 : Louis Bertrand
Publisher : New York, Carrier
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Private Life of Louis XIV written by Louis Bertrand and published by New York, Carrier. This book was released on 1929 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Bertrand
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Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV written by Louis Bertrand and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 850 pages
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Download or read book The New Statesman written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Bookseller & Stationer and Office Equipment Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 464 pages
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Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philippe Ariès
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674400047
Total Pages : 658 pages
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Download or read book A History of Private Life written by Philippe Ariès and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library has Vol. 1-5.
Author : Michel (Prince of Greece)
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
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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 : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine Ashenburg
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466867760
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Dirt on Clean written by Katherine Ashenburg and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirited chronicle of the West's ambivalent relationship with dirt The question of cleanliness is one every age and culture has answered with confidence. For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, scraping the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the aristocratic Frenchman in the seventeenth century, it meant changing your shirt once a day and perhaps going so far as to dip your hands in some water. Did Napoleon know something we didn't when he wrote Josephine "I will return in five days. Stop washing"? And why is the German term Warmduscher—a man who washes in warm or hot water—invariably a slight against his masculinity? Katherine Ashenburg takes on such fascinating questions as these in Dirt on Clean, her charming tour of attitudes to hygiene through time. What could be more routine than taking up soap and water and washing yourself? And yet cleanliness, or the lack of it, is intimately connected to ideas as large as spirituality and sexuality, and historical events that include plagues, the Civil War, and the discovery of germs. An engrossing fusion of erudition and anecdote, Dirt on Clean considers the bizarre prescriptions of history's doctors, the hygienic peccadilloes of great authors, and the historic twists and turns that have brought us to a place Ashenburg considers hedonistic yet oversanitized.
