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Author : Andrew Haggard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Real Louis the Fifteenth written by Andrew Haggard and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Haggard
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Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Real Louis the Fifteenthe ... written by Andrew Haggard and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Edward Watson
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Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book To the end of the reign of Louis the Fifteenth written by Thomas Edward Watson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Curzon
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147384553X
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Life in the Georgian Court written by Catherine Curzon and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively history of Europe’s royal families through the 18th and early 19th centuries reveals the decadence and danger of court life. As the glittering Hanoverian court gives birth to the British Georgian era, a golden age of royalty dawns in Europe. Houses rise and fall, births, marriages and scandals change the course of history. Meanwhile, in France, Revolution stalks the land. Life in the Georgian Court pulls back the curtain on the opulent court of the doomed Bourbons, the absolutist powerhouse of Romanov Russia, and the epoch-defining royal family whose kings gave their name to the era, the House of Hanover. Beneath the powdered wigs and robes of state were real people living lives of romance, tragedy, intrigue and eccentricity. Historian Catherine Curzon reveals the private lives of these very public figures, vividly recounting the arranged marriages that turned to love or hate and the scandals that rocked polite society. Here the former wife of a king spends three decades in lonely captivity, King George IV makes scandalous eyes at the toast of the London stage, and Marie Antoinette begins her final journey through Paris as her son sits alone in a forgotten prison cell. Life in the Georgian Court is a privileged peek into the glamorous, tragic and iconic courts of the Georgian world, where even a king could take nothing for granted.
Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385672519
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
Download or read book Love and Louis XIV written by Antonia Fraser and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The superb historian and biographer Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, casts new light on the splendor and the scandals of the reign of Louis XIV in this dramatic, illuminating look at the women in his life. The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes behind the well-known tales of Louis’s accomplishments and follies, exploring in riveting detail his intimate relationships with women. The king’s mother, Anne of Austria, had been in a childless marriage for twenty-two years before she gave birth to Louis XIV. A devout Catholic, she instilled in her son a strong sense of piety and fought successfully for his right to absolute power. In 1660, Louis married his first cousin, Marie-Thérèse, in a political arrangement. While unfailingly kind to the official Queen of Versailles, Louis sought others to satisfy his romantic and sexual desires. After a flirtation with his sister-in-law, his first important mistress was Louise de La Vallière, who bore him several children before being replaced by the tempestuous and brilliant Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. Later, when Athénaïs’s reputation was tarnished, the King continued to support her publicly as Athénaïs left court for a life of repentance. Meanwhile her children’s governess, the intelligent and seemingly puritanical Françoise de Maintenon, had already won the King’s affections; in a relationship in complete contrast to his physical obsession with Athénaïs, Louis XIV lived happily with Madame de Maintenon for the rest of his life, very probably marrying her in secret. When his grandson’s child bride, the enchanting Adelaide of Savoy, came to Versaille she lightened the King’s last years – until tragedy struck. With consummate skill, Antonia Fraser weaves insights into the nature of women’s religious lives – as well as such practical matters as contraception – into her magnificent, sweeping portrait of the king, his court, and his ladies.
Author : Sally Christie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501102966
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Sisters of Versailles written by Sally Christie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Court intriguers are beginning to sense that young King Louis XV, after seven years of marriage, is tiring of his Polish wife. The race is on to find a mistress for the royal bed. The King's scheming ministers push Louise, the eldest of the aristocratic Nesle sisters, into the arms of the King. Over the following decade, of the five Nesle sisters-- Louise, Pauline, Diane, Hortense, and Marie-Anne-- four will become mistresses to King Louis XV. All will conspire, betray, suffer, and triumph in a desperate fight for both love and power.
Author : Paul Sonnino
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Reign of Louis XIV written by Paul Sonnino and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 1310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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Total Pages : 1426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Book Prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
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Total Pages : 1242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The American Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Huston Finley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Nelson's Perpetual Loose-leaf Encyclopædia written by John Huston Finley and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Edward Watson
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Total Pages : 742 pages
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Download or read book The Story of France written by Thomas Edward Watson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Milne
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Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book Monthly written by James Milne and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 2244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 2244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Detroit Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin ... of Books Added to the Public Library of Detroit, Mich written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pierre Gaxotte
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Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Louis the Fifteenth and His Times written by Pierre Gaxotte and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
