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Author : Ortensia de La Porte (duchesse de Mazarin.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The duchess of Mazarin written by Ortensia de La Porte (duchesse de Mazarin.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cyril Hughes Hartmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Vagabond Duchess written by Cyril Hughes Hartmann and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Toivo David Rosvall
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Mazarine Legacy; the Life of Hortense Mancini written by Toivo David Rosvall and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1969 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth C Goldsmith
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1586488902
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Kings' Mistresses written by Elizabeth C Goldsmith and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mancini Sisters, Marie and Hortense, were born in Rome, brought to the court of Louis XIV of France, and strategically married off by their uncle, Cardinal Mazarin, to secure his political power base. Such was the life of many young women of the age: they had no independent status under the law and were entirely a part of their husband's property once married. Marie and Hortense, however, had other ambitions in mind altogether. Miserable in their marriages and determined to live independently, they abandoned their husbands in secret and began lives of extraordinary daring on the run and in the public eye. The beguiling sisters quickly won the affections of noblemen and kings alike. Their flight became popular fodder for salon conversation and tabloids, and was closely followed by seventeenth-century European society. The Countess of Grignan remarked that they were traveling "like two heroines out of a novel." Others gossiped that they "were roaming the countryside in pursuit of wandering lovers. "Their scandalous behavior -- disguising themselves as men, gambling, and publicly disputing with their husbands -- served as more than just entertainment. It sparked discussions across Europe concerning the legal rights of husbands over their wives. Elizabeth Goldsmith's vibrant biography of the Mancini sisters -- drawn from personal papers of the players involved and the tabloids of the time -- illuminates the lives of two pioneering free spirits who were feminists long before the word existed.
Author : Marie Mancini
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226502805
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Memoirs written by Marie Mancini and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of Hortense (1646–1699) and of Marie (1639–1715) Mancini, nieces of the powerful Cardinal Mazarin and members of the court of Louis XIV, represent the earliest examples in France of memoirs published by women under their own names during their lifetimes. Both unhappily married—Marie had also fled the aftermath of her failed affair with the king—the sisters chose to leave their husbands for life on the road, a life quite rare for women of their day. Through their writings, the Mancinis sought to rehabilitate their reputations and reclaim the right to define their public images themselves, rather than leave the stories of their lives to the intrigues of the court—and to their disgruntled ex-husbands. First translated in 1676 and 1678 and credited largely to male redactors, the two memoirs reemerge here in an accessible English translation that chronicles the beginnings of women’s rights to personal independence within the confines of an otherwise circumscribed early modern aristocratic society.
Author : Arthur Hassall
Publisher : Ozymandias Press
ISBN 13 : 1531267327
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Cardinal Mazarin written by Arthur Hassall and published by Ozymandias Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richelieu died on the 5th of December 1642; on the following day Louis XIII. announced that he had chosen Mazarin to be First Minister. Giulio Mazarini, or Jules Mazarin, as the French call him, was born on July 14, 1602, at Piscina, a small village in the Abruzzi. His father was a certain Sicilian, by name Pietro Mazarini, his mother was Hortensia Buffalini, who was renowned for her beauty. To the latter the young Giulio owed much of his future success, for it was due to her efforts that he first studied under the Jesuits at the Roman College, and later at the University of Alcalá in Spain. He had early shown signs of uncommon talents, and he was at the age of sixteen remarkable for his handsome face and natural brightness.
Author : C. H. Hartmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (499 download)
Download or read book The Vagabond Duchess written by C. H. Hartmann and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda Porter
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509877088
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Mistresses written by Linda Porter and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the great diarist, John Evelyn, Charles II was ‘addicted to women’, and throughout his long reign a great many succumbed to his charms. Clever, urbane and handsome, Charles presided over a hedonistic court, in which licence and licentiousness prevailed. Mistresses is the story of the women who shared Charles’s bed, each of whom wielded influence on both the politics and cultural life of the country. From the young king-in-exile’s first mistress and mother to his first child, Lucy Walter, to the promiscuous and ill-tempered courtier, Barbara Villiers. From Frances Teresa Stuart, ‘the prettiest girl in the world’ to history’s most famous orange-seller, ‘pretty, witty’ Nell Gwynn and to her fellow-actress, Moll Davis, who bore the last of the king’s fifteen illegitimate children. From Louise de Kéroualle, the French aristocrat – and spy for Louis XIV – to the sexually ambiguous Hortense Mancini. Here, too, is the forlorn and humiliated Queen Catherine, the Portuguese princess who was Charles’s childless queen. Drawing on a wide variety of original sources, including material in private archives, Linda Porter paints a vivid picture of these women and of Restoration England, an era that was both glamorous and sordid.
Author : Mary Astell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368376845
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Some Reflections Upon Marriage; With Additions written by Mary Astell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : mrs. colquhoun grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book queen and the cardinal a memoir of anne of austria and of her relations with cardinal mazarin written by mrs. colquhoun grant and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexandre Dumas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Twenty Years After written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Molly Brown
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466859784
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Invitation To A Funeral written by Molly Brown and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: APHRA BEHN is an unusual woman by any standard, especially those of 1676 London. A popular playwright and former spy, she does not bow to convention, does not always have the fortitude to turn a charming, but alcoholic attorney from her bed, and currently, does not have the funds to pay the rent on her London home. But a long-shot bet--that the Earl of Rochester's doltish young mistress can improve her painfully poor acting enough to play the lead in Aphra's latest play--could have her in the clear again. Until she's indebted to pay for the funerals of two brothers whose kindness helped her years ago. And the debt goes further than that--both deaths smack of murder, and Aphra is determined to find a killer and uncover a deadly secret...one that could engage all of England in a bloody civil war. From the squalid streets of London to the grand chambers of Whitehall Palace, author Molly Brown vividly recreates Restoration England at its most uproarious, while crafting a brilliant novel of history, humor, and heart-pounding intrigue.
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Author : Victor COUSIN (Philosopher.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Secret History of the French Court Under Richelieu and Mazarin; Or, Life and Times of Madame de Chevreuse ... Translated by Mary L. Booth. [With a Portrait.] written by Victor COUSIN (Philosopher.) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hickman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107571774
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)
Download or read book A/AS Level History for AQA The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643–1715 Student Book written by David Hickman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the AQA 2015 A/AS Level History. Written for the AQA A/AS Level History specifications for first teaching from 2015, this print Student Book covers The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643-1715 Depth component. Completely matched to the new AQA specification, this full-colour Student Book provides valuable background information to contextualise the period of study. Supporting students in developing their critical thinking, research and written communication skills, it also encourages them to make links between different time periods, topics and historical themes.
Author : Susan Shifrin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144381184X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book “The Wandering Life I Led” written by Susan Shifrin and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of essays brings together international scholars working on the literary, visual, musical, and theatrical representations and reception of Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin, an early modern woman whose literal—geographical—“border crossings” serve here as the starting point for an investigation of her and others’ elisions and transgressions of borders of all kinds. The authors lay out strategies for exploring the ways in which she crossed geographical, gendered, cultural, and—in scholarly terms—disciplinary boundaries, and in so doing, consider how an investigation of those border crossings can enhance our understanding of early modern cultural formation. The new work presented here by some of the most distinguished junior and senior scholars working today in the fields of history, art history, literary history, the history of theater, and the history of music promises to stimulate a broader scholarly discussion about early modern border-crossing and women’s places in the early modern period in general.
Author : Karleen Koen
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402275919
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Before Versailles written by Karleen Koen and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A grand yet intimate look at the Sun King, a tale rich with detail and action."—Library Journal (Starred Review, one of the best historical novels of the year) Before Versailles transports you to a world of secret passions and plots, a world of duplicity and malice...a world that created one of the best–known monarchs to grace the French throne. At the most decisive time in the young king's life, Louis XIV can taste the danger. His court teems with greed and corruption, the wrong woman draws him into a wrenching love affair, and a mysterious boy in an iron mask haunts the woods. The untried ruler is coming into his own in 1661, and Louis XIV must face what he is willing to sacrifice for honor and for love. Meticulously researched and gorgeously brought to life by New York Times bestselling author Karleen Koen, Before Versailles offers up a sumptuous, authentic exploration of a time that forged a man into a king. Praise for Before Versailles: "In this magnificently written and researched novel, Karleen Koen brings to vibrant life the early years and loves of the future Sun King."—Jean M. Auel, author of The Clan of the Cave Bear and the Land of Painted Caves "A baroque cornucopia spilling over with intrigue, passion, jealousy, ambition, and rich historical detail, Before Versailles offers a glittering glimpse of the crucial months that shaped Louis XIV into Europe's most powerful monarch."—Eleanor Herman, author of Sex with Kings
Author : Paul Sonnino
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674043863
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Mazarin's Quest written by Paul Sonnino and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonnino examines the diplomatic negotiations that took place in Westphalia from 1643 to 1648, which brought an end to the agonizing civil and religious conflict of the Thirty Years' War.
