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Author : Philip Walsingham Sergeant
Publisher : London : T.W. Laurie
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Last Empress of the French written by Philip Walsingham Sergeant and published by London : T.W. Laurie. This book was released on 1907 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evelyne Lever
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312283339
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Marie Antoinette written by Evelyne Lever and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-09-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the French queen explores the intrigue surrounding her life from her birth, through her unhappy marriage, her lavish life at Versailles, to the events leading up to her death by beheading during the French Revolution.
Author : Philip Walsingham Sergeant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (185 download)
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Author : Philip W. Serjeant
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Last Empress of the French written by Philip W. Serjeant and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael John Sullivan
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Fatal Passion written by Michael John Sullivan and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1997 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the years from 1876 to 1939, "A Fatal Passion" tells the compelling story of Grand Duchess Victoria Melita, granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Emperor Alexander of Russia, and the tragic aftermath of the Russian Revolution. of photos.
Author : Marion Romberg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900446090X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Empresses and Queens in the Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century written by Marion Romberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight case studies focus on a specific group of European Empress consorts and Queen regnants from the 17th to the 20th century and their relationship to the media, using a unique, comparative, cross-media, and cross-period approach.
Author : Philip Walsingham Sergeant
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290916776
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (167 download)
Download or read book The Last Empress of the French, Being the Life of the Empress Eugnie, Wife of Napoleon Iii written by Philip Walsingham Sergeant and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Anchee Min
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408828995
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Last Empress written by Anchee Min and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Vivid and entertaining ... this is history as it plays upon the emotions. Empires crumble, hearts are broken' THE TIMES From the bestselling author of Red Azalea comes the much-anticipated sequel to Empress Orchid At the end of the nineteenth century China is rocked by foreign attacks and local rebellions. The only constant is the power wielded by one woman, Tzu Hsi, also known as Empress Orchid, who must face the perilous condition of her empire and devastating personal losses. In this sequel to the bestselling Empress Orchid, Anchee Min brings to life one of the most important figures in Chinese history, a very human leader who sacrifices all she has to protect both those she loves and her doomed empire.
Author : Philip Walsingham Sergeant
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781355856467
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (564 download)
Download or read book The Last Empress of the French, Being the Life of the Empress Eugenie, Wife of Napoleon III written by Philip Walsingham Sergeant and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.
Author : Philip Walsingham Sergeant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331017066
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Last Empress of the French, Being the Life of the Empress Eugénie, Wife of Napoleon III (Classic Reprint) written by Philip Walsingham Sergeant and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Last Empress of the French, Being the Life of the Empress Eugenie, Wife of Napoleon III The attempt is often made by the biographer of famous people to gather from the circumstances of their birth, or from the conditions of their families before it, something which may be treated as a premonition of the eminence which they were destined afterwards to attain. With regard to her who is known to history as the Empress Eugenie, it would certainly require much unprofitable ingenuity to show what there was to lead to her rise from the position of younger daughter of a poor Spanish nobleman and his half-Scottish wife to that of consort of the Emperor of the French. Some points in her character and certain facial traits have been connected, rather fancifully perhaps, with her sudden appearance in the world. But in the preceding story of her parents and in her own early life there is little indeed to draw the promise of a crown even from the legendary gipsy, who is declared in the present instance, as always, to have prophesied the girls elevation to royal rank. 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 : Hannah Pakula
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439154236
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (542 download)
Download or read book The Last Empress written by Hannah Pakula and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China, starting with a revolution that swept away more than 2,000 years of monarchy, followed by World War II, and ending in the eventual loss to the Communists and exile in Taiwan. An epic historical tapestry, this wonderfully wrought narrative brings to life what Americans should know about China -- the superpower we are inextricably linked with -- the way its people think and their code of behavior, both vastly different from our own. The story revolves around this fascinating woman and her family: her father, a peasant who raised himself into Shanghai society and sent his daughters to college in America in a day when Chinese women were kept purposefully uneducated; her mother, an unlikely Methodist from the Mandarin class; her husband, a military leader and dogmatic warlord; her sisters, one married to Sun Yat-sen, the George Washington of China, the other to a seventy-fifth lineal descendant of Confucius; and her older brother, a financial genius. This was the Soong family, which, along with their partners in marriage, was largely responsible for dragging China into the twentieth century. Brilliantly narrated, this fierce and bloody drama also includes U.S. Army General Joseph Stilwell; Claire Chennault, head of the Flying Tigers; Communist leaders Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai; murderous warlords; journalists Henry Luce, Theodore White, and Edgar Snow; and the unfortunate State Department officials who would be purged for predicting (correctly) the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War. As the representative of an Eastern ally in the West, Madame Chiang was befriended -- before being rejected -- by the Roosevelts, stayed in the White House for long periods during World War II, and charmed the U.S. Congress into giving China billions of dollars. Although she was dubbed the Dragon Lady in some quarters, she was an icon to her people and is certainly one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century.
Author : Philip Walsingham Sergeant
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781356045198
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (451 download)
Download or read book The Last Empress of the French, Being the Life of the Empress Eugnie, Wife of Napoleon III written by Philip Walsingham Sergeant and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.
Author : Philip W. Sergeant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (461 download)
Download or read book The Last Empress of the French, Being the Life of the Empress Eugénie, Wife of Napoleon III written by Philip W. Sergeant and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hagith Sivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195379128
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Galla Placidia written by Hagith Sivan and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wedding in Gaul (414) -- Funerals in Barcelona (414-416) -- Making of an empress (417-425) -- Restoration and rehabilitation (425-431) -- Bride, a book, and a pope (437-438) -- Between Rome and Ravenna (438-450).
Author : Edward Shawcross
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541674219
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book The Last Emperor of Mexico written by Edward Shawcross and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true operatic tragedy of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico—and faced bloody consequences. In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise of American imperialism, persuaded a young Austrian archduke and a Belgian princess to leave Europe and become the emperor and empress of Mexico. They and their entourage arrived in a Mexico ruled by terror, where revolutionary fervor was barely suppressed by French troops. When the United States, now clear of its own Civil War, aided the rebels in pushing back Maximilian’s imperial soldiers, the French army withdrew, abandoning the young couple. The regime fell apart. Maximilian was executed by a firing squad and Carlota, secluded in a Belgian castle, descended into madness. Assiduously researched and vividly told, The Last Emperor of Mexico is a dramatic story of European hubris, imperialist aspirations clashing with revolutionary fervor, and the Old World breaking from the New.
Author : Sterling Seagrave
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dragon Lady written by Sterling Seagrave and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1992 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The last empress of China--Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi (1835-1908)--is remembered as one of history's monsters, an iron-willed concubine who, after usurping power in 1861, ruled from the Dragon Throne for half a century. Her reign, in the aftermath of the Opium Wars and through the Boxer Rebellion until the collapse of the 2,000-year-old empire, has traditionally been seen as one of murder, poison, and intrigue. But the wicked image is false." "In 1974, to the dismay of scholars, Sir Edmund Backhouse--the biographer most responsible for the widespread vision of Tzu Hsi as monster--was revealed to be a con man. And now the author of the celebrated best-seller The Soong Dynasty has undertaken the first complete reappraisal of the empress--exposing Backhouse's writings about her as a major hoax and forgery, and establishing that the most important Western correspondent in Peking during her reign--Dr. George Morrison of the London Times--kept a secret diary contradicting his own dispatches about Tzu Hsi." "Drawing on many unpublished or long-overlooked contemporary sources, Sterling Seagrave shows us Tzu Hsi as a complex woman whose desperate--though often misguided--efforts to hold her country together take on a different coloration in the context of unrelenting foreign attempts to colonize and tear it apart. Far from being all-powerful, she was actually a hostage of vengeful Manchu princes who were using her in a power struggle against both Chinese reformers and foreign interference." "Here at last is an authentic portrait of this fascinating historical figure, as well as insight into the Western craving to believe in a sinister, dragon-haunted Orient. Dragon Lady is at once a compelling biography and the equally compelling story of how a myth was contrived, how it endured, and how, ultimately, the truth has emerged."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Evelyne Lever
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374199388
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Marie Antoinette written by Evelyne Lever and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 2000 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the French queen explores the intrigue surrounding her life, as well as the events leading up to her death
