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Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre by : Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre written by Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Private Life of Louis XIV ... Translated by Paul Thorin. [With a Portrait.]. by : Louis Marie Émile BERTRAND
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:
Book Synopsis The Secret Wife of Louis XIV by : Veronica Buckley
Download or read book The Secret Wife of Louis XIV written by Veronica Buckley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV, was born in a bleak French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor and murderer, her mother the warden’s seduced daughter. A timely pardon and a hopeful Caribbean colonial venture failed to mend the family’s fortunes, and Françoise was reduced to begging in the streets. Yet, armed with beauty, intellect, and shrewd judgment, she was to make her way to the center of power at Versailles, the most opulent and ambitious court in all Europe. At fifteen, she was married off to the forty-two-year-old satirical poet Paul Scarron, a former roué now grievously deformed by rheumatism—“a sort of human Z,” as he described himself. Despite his ailments, Scarron presided over the liveliest and most scandalous literary salon in Paris, and Françoise quickly became its most prized ornament. After Scarron’s death, she enjoyed a merry widowhood in the fashionable Marais district, in the company of the courtesan Ninon de Lenclos and the King’s splendid mistress, Athénaïs de Montespan, who made the young widow governess to her brood of illegitimate children. The appointment transformed Françoise’s life, but was fatal to the temperamental Athénaïs herself, with the King soon turning his attentions to the graceful governess. Françoise was raised to the nobility as Madame de Maintenon—and, unofficially, “Madame de Maintenant,” the lady of the moment. The acclaimed biographer Veronica Buckley traces the extraordinary story of Françoise’s progress from pauper child to salonnière to the compromised position of Louis’s secret wife and uncrowned Queen. An absolute ruler, Louis turned away his many other mistresses to live with Françoise only, trusting her as his closest confidante and remaining in love with her for forty years. Sparkling with the irresistible wit of contemporary chroniclers such as Madame de Sévigné, this exactingly researched biography is a pinnacle of the form. In vibrant colors, The Secret Wife of Louis XIV paints a portrait of Europe in an age of violent change, and the Sun King’s France in the process of becoming its modern self.
Book Synopsis King of the World by : Philip Mansel
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.
Book Synopsis The Private Life of Louis XIV. Tr. by Paul Morin by : Louis Bertrand
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:
Book Synopsis The Private Life of Louis XIV by : Louis Bertrand
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:
Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre by : Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre written by Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette by : Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette written by Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette by : Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette written by Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King Louis XIV written by Hourly History and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Louis XIV He was born on September 5th, 1638 in the French lap of luxury otherwise known as the "Chateau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye." This extravagant palace of French excess is located about 12 miles west of Paris. His birth name, "Louis-Dieudonne," is French for, literally, "Gift for God." This belief of divine right, initially inspired by his mother Queen Anne, would be a powerful theme throughout Louis XIV's life. Inside you will read about... ✓ The Conflict of Kings ✓ War and Marriage ✓ The Noose Tightens ✓ The Scorched Earth of Louis XIV ✓ The Balance of Power ✓ Louis's Last Stand ✓ The Death of the King And much more!Although he didn't create absolutism in France, King Louis XIV seemed to embody the "divine right of kings" better than anyone had before him. Louis XIV directly correlated his own private good with that of the public good. There was really no concept of private property under Louis. The French King viewed all of France as his personal estate, with all who lived and toiled in his domain doing so only under his express permission; even so, not everyone in France had the same sentiment. The ones who most notably resisted the notion of the King's absolutism were the French nobles and aristocrats that Louis depended upon to raise armies and defend the country. Despite his theory of absolutism, this dependence on French nobility to bear arms, gave them increasing autonomy and independence from the King. It was this independence that would one day come to a head, and send Louis, the so-called "Sun King" of divine inheritance, into a full-blown conflict with his own subjects - and the world at large.
Book Synopsis The Private Life of Marie Antoinette ... by : Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette)
Download or read book The Private Life of Marie Antoinette ... written by Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Private Life of Louis XIV. Translated by Paul Morin by : Louis Bertrand
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:
Book Synopsis Louis XIV by : Michel (Prince of Greece)
Download or read book Louis XIV written by Michel (Prince of Greece) and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre by : Francois Barriere
Download or read book Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre written by Francois Barriere and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 478 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 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. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Private Life of Louis XV by : Mouffle d'Angerville
Download or read book The Private Life of Louis XV written by Mouffle d'Angerville and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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