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Book Synopsis The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henry IV, and Regent of the Kingdom Under Louis XIII by : Miss Pardoe (Julia)
Download or read book The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henry IV, and Regent of the Kingdom Under Louis XIII written by Miss Pardoe (Julia) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France by : Julia Pardoe
Download or read book The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France written by Julia Pardoe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1852, this is a three-volume biography of Marie de Medicis, Queen and subsequently Regent of France.
Book Synopsis The Life of Marie de Medicis (Vol. 1-3) by : Miss Pardoe
Download or read book The Life of Marie de Medicis (Vol. 1-3) written by Miss Pardoe and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 949 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of Marie de Medicis in three volumes is a biography of Maria de' Medici, Queen of France, Consort of Henri IV, and Regent of the Kingdom under Louis XIII. She was a member of the wealthy and powerful House of Medici. Following the assassination of her husband in 1610, which occurred the day after her coronation, she acted as regent for her son, King Louis XIII of France, until 1617, when he came of age. She was noted for her ceaseless political intrigues at the French court and extensive artistic patronage. This biography in enriched by numerous curious extracts from a previously unpublished Memoir of M. le Commandeur de Rambure, Captain of the regiment of French Guards who served under King Henry IV and King Louis XIII.
Book Synopsis The Life of Marie de Medicis by : Miss Pardoe (Julia)
Download or read book The Life of Marie de Medicis written by Miss Pardoe (Julia) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catherine de Medici by : Leonie Frieda
Download or read book Catherine de Medici written by Leonie Frieda and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the STARZ original series, The Serpent Queen, premiering September 11. “A beautifully written portrait of a ruthless, subtle and fearless woman fighting for survival and power in a world of gangsterish brutality, routine assassination and religious mania. . . . Frieda has brought a largely forgotten heroine-villainess and a whole sumptuously vicious era back to life. . . . This is The Godfather meets Elizabeth.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Poisoner, besotted mother, despot, necromancer, engineer of a massacre: the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen of France to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds. Based on comprehensive research including thousands of Catherine’s own letters, Frieda unfurls Catherine’s story from her troubled childhood in Florence to her tumultuous marriage to Henry II of France; her transformation of French culture to her reign as a queen who would use brutality to ensure her children’s royal birthright. Brilliantly executed, this enthralling biography goes beyond myth to paint a very human portrait of this remarkable figure.
Book Synopsis The Life of Queen Marie de Medicis by : Miss Pardoe
Download or read book The Life of Queen Marie de Medicis written by Miss Pardoe and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of Queen Marie de Medicis in three volumes is a biography of Maria de' Medici, Queen of France, Consort of Henri IV, and Regent of the Kingdom under Louis XIII. She was a member of the wealthy and powerful House of Medici. Following the assassination of her husband in 1610, which occurred the day after her coronation, she acted as regent for her son, King Louis XIII of France, until 1617, when he came of age. She was noted for her ceaseless political intrigues at the French court and extensive artistic patronage. This biography in enriched by numerous curious extracts from a previously unpublished Memoir of M. le Commandeur de Rambure, Captain of the regiment of French Guards who served under King Henry IV and King Louis XIII.
Book Synopsis Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France by : Miss Pardoe (Julia)
Download or read book Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France written by Miss Pardoe (Julia) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henry IV and Regent of the Kingdom Under Louis XIII by : Julia Pardoe
Download or read book The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henry IV and Regent of the Kingdom Under Louis XIII written by Julia Pardoe and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henry IV and Regent of the Kingdom Under Louis XIII by : Julia Pardoe
Download or read book The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henry IV and Regent of the Kingdom Under Louis XIII written by Julia Pardoe and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Rival Queens by : Nancy Goldstone
Download or read book The Rival Queens written by Nancy Goldstone and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century. Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal that threatened to destroy the realm. Catherine de' Medici was a ruthless pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the throne for thirty years. Her youngest daughter Marguerite, the glamorous "Queen Margot," was a passionate free spirit, the only adversary whom her mother could neither intimidate nor control. When Catherine forces the Catholic Marguerite to marry her Protestant cousin Henry of Navarre against her will, and then uses her opulent Parisian wedding as a means of luring his followers to their deaths, she creates not only savage conflict within France but also a potent rival within her own family. Rich in detail and vivid prose, Goldstone's narrative unfolds as a thrilling historical epic. Treacherous court politics, poisonings, international espionage, and adultery form the background to a story that includes such celebrated figures as Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Nostradamus. The Rival Queens is a dangerous tale of love, betrayal, ambition, and the true nature of courage, the echoes of which still resonate.
Download or read book Dancing Queen written by Melinda J. Gough and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de M?dicis prior to Henri IV's assassination in 1610 attracted thousands of spectators ranging from pickpockets to ambassadors from across Europe. Drawing on newly discovered primary sources as well as theories and methodologies derived from literary studies, political history, musicology, dance studies, and women's and gender studies, Dancing Queen traces how Marie's ballets authorized her incipient political authority through innovative verbal and visual imagery, avant-garde musical developments, and ceremonial arrangements of objects and bodies in space. Making use of women's "semi-official" status as political agents, Marie's ballets also manipulated the subtle social and cultural codes of international courtly society in order to more deftly navigate rivalries and alliances both at home and abroad. At times the queen's productions could challenge Henri IV's immediate interests, contesting the influence enjoyed by his mistresses or giving space to implied critiques of official foreign policy, for example. Such defenses of Marie's own position, though, took shape as part of a larger governmental program designed to promote the French consort queen's political authority not in its own right but as a means of maintaining power for the new Bourbon monarchy in the event of Henri IV's untimely death.
Book Synopsis The Identities of Catherine de' Medici by : Susan Broomhall
Download or read book The Identities of Catherine de' Medici written by Susan Broomhall and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative analysis of the representational strategies that constructed Catherine de’ Medici and sought to explain her behaviour and motivations.
Book Synopsis The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henry IV and Regent of the Kingdom Under Louis XIII by : Julia Pardoe
Download or read book The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henry IV and Regent of the Kingdom Under Louis XIII written by Julia Pardoe and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Marie de Medicis by : Julia Pardoe
Download or read book The Life of Marie de Medicis written by Julia Pardoe and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dairy Queens written by Meredith Martin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lively narrative that spans more than two centuries, Meredith Martin tells the story of a royal and aristocratic building type that has been largely forgotten today: the pleasure dairy of early modern France. These garden structures—most famously the faux-rustic, white marble dairy built for Marie-Antoinette’s Hameau at Versailles—have long been dismissed as the trifling follies of a reckless elite. Martin challenges such assumptions and reveals the pivotal role that pleasure dairies played in cultural and political life, especially with respect to polarizing debates about nobility, femininity, and domesticity. Together with other forms of pastoral architecture such as model farms and hermitages, pleasure dairies were crucial arenas for elite women to exercise and experiment with identity and power. Opening with Catherine de’ Medici’s lavish dairy at Fontainebleau (c. 1560), Martin’s book explores how French queens and noblewomen used pleasure dairies to naturalize their status, display their cultivated tastes, and proclaim their virtue as nurturing mothers and capable estate managers. Pleasure dairies also provided women with a site to promote good health, by spending time in salubrious gardens and consuming fresh milk. Illustrated with a dazzling array of images and photographs, Dairy Queens sheds new light on architecture, self, and society in the ancien régime.
Book Synopsis Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France by : Kathleen Wellman
Download or read book Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France written by Kathleen Wellman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses.
