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Book Synopsis Louis XIII, the Just by : A. Lloyd Moote
Download or read book Louis XIII, the Just written by A. Lloyd Moote and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-02-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating biography, A. Lloyd Moote provides the first authoritative account of one of the most enigmatic figures of seventeenth-century Europe. Contrary of popular portrayals of the monarch as a hapless kind, Moote argues that Louis XIII was a ruler who powerfully shaped his people's destiny.
Book Synopsis Louis XIII, the Just by : A. Lloyd Moote
Download or read book Louis XIII, the Just written by A. Lloyd Moote and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating biography, A. Lloyd Moote provides the first authoritative account of one of the most enigmatic figures of seventeenth-century Europe. Contrary of popular portrayals of the monarch as a hapless kind, Moote argues that Louis XIII was a ruler who powerfully shaped his people's destiny.
Book Synopsis Louis XIII, the Just by : A. Lloyd Moote
Download or read book Louis XIII, the Just written by A. Lloyd Moote and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-08-08 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating biography, A. Lloyd Moote provides the first authoritative account of one of the most enigmatic figures of seventeenth-century Europe. Contrary of popular portrayals of the monarch as a hapless kind, Moote argues that Louis XIII was a ruler who powerfully shaped his people's destiny.
Download or read book Louis XIII written by Michael Hone and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of two kings, one, Louis XIII, wore a gold crown, the second, Cardinal Richelieu, a red biretta. They were the original odd couple, and would die together, two old men who would put to death perhaps the most beautiful, vibrant boy of Renaissance France, Cinq-Mars, and bury another, Louis' first lover, the man who showed Louis the way to becoming, himself, a man. Louis was a mystery to the world, and certainly even more of a mystery to himself; Richelieu put France on the road to empire and absolutism. Louis XIII was known as Louis the Just, notwithstanding the fact that he beheaded lovers he had adored, and Louis the Chaste, despite his welcoming as many boys in his bed as Don Juan did girls (and an occasional lad). He was nonetheless chaste enough concerning women, so much so that his lover Luynes had to carry him bodily to the bed of his new bride, remaining at his side while encouraging him to ''honor'' her--three years after the wedding! It took him another 20 years to produce the prodigious Louis XIV. Thanks to Richelieu and Louis, in that order, France replaced Spain as the world's greatest power, and had Napoleon not sold off half of America to pay for wars that cost the lives of a million boys, this book would most probably be in French, arguably the world's most beautiful language (while English is arguably the most dynamic).
Download or read book Louis XIV written by John Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a well-written biography of King Louis XIV of France. The book opens with a summary of his parents, Louis XIII and Anne of Austria. Louis XIII was a mere teenager at his wedding; Anne just eleven. It was common place for nobles to marry this young during the 1600s, which seems inconceivable from a twenty-first century perspective.Louis XIII died when his son was seven, leaving Anne to rule France as regent. Louis XIV was crowned king of France at the age of thirteen. It seems incredible that one so young should be given so much power. This perhaps was the first contributing factor to turning him into a man who instigated many cruelties to his subjects.What Louis did to Frenchmen of the Protestant faith competes with what Hitler did to the Jews. He wanted France to be populated by Catholics only. Any Protestant who refused to convert would be assaulted by soldiers without mercy or even killed. This extended to young children, though many children were torn from the homes and forced to live with adult Catholics, who'd force them to adapt to their faith.Louis was power-obsessed. At one point he declared war on the Dutch with no apparent reason. Many of his actions shocked the rest of Europe in the latter half of the 1600s and the early 1700s.Louis was also fickle regarding women. He would flirt with his favourite mistresses without a thought for the queen. When a new young beauty caught his eye he'd focus his attentions on her, not caring how he mentally tortured his previous 'favourite'. Again and again his treatment of women proved heartless. As John Abbott - the author of this fine work - points out in the brief intro, Louis XIV's actions and cruelties to his subjects sewed the seeds of the French Revolution. Many of the poor starved so Louis could live in luxury and spend endless amounts of the treasury on creating new buildings.Despite all Louis XIV's faults, he was an interesting - and at times fascinating - character. I recommend this work to anyone interested in French or European history, or to those interested in historical figures who made a huge impact on the world, be it good or bad.
Book Synopsis The Court of Louis XIII by : Katherine Alexandra Patmore
Download or read book The Court of Louis XIII written by Katherine Alexandra Patmore and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Louis XIII [treize] et Richelieu by : Eugène Griselle
Download or read book Louis XIII [treize] et Richelieu written by Eugène Griselle and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louis XIV written by Aurora von Goeth and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise, straightforward biography of the seventeenth-century French monarch and his seventy-two-year reign. Innovator. Tyrant. Consummate showman. Passionate lover of women. After the death of King Louis XIII in 1643, the French crown went to his first-born son and heir, four-year old Louis XIV. In the extraordinary seventy-two years that followed, Louis le Grand—France’s self-styled “Sun King”—ruled France and its people, leaving his unique and permanent mark on history and shaping fashion, art, culture and architecture like none other before. This frank and concise book gives the reader a personal glimpse into the Sun King’s life and times as we follow his rise in power and influence: from a miraculous royal birth no one ever expected to the rise of king as absolute monarch, through the evolution of the glittering Château de Versailles, scandals and poison, four wars and many more mistresses . . . right up to his final days. Absolute monarch. Appointed by God. This is Louis XIV, the man. We will uncover his glorious and not-so-glorious obsessions. His debilitating health issues. His drive and passions. And we will dispel some myths, plus reveal the people in his intimate circle working behind the scenes on the Louis propaganda machine to ensure his legacy stayed in the history books forever. This easy-to-read narrative is accompanied by a plethora of little-known artworks, so if you’re a Louis XIV fan or student, or just eager to know more about France’s most famous king, we invite you to delve into court life of seventeenth-century French aristocracy, the period known as Le Grand Siècle—“The Grand Century.”
Book Synopsis Cinq-Mars; Or, A Conspiracy Under Louis XIII by : Alfred de Vigny
Download or read book Cinq-Mars; Or, A Conspiracy Under Louis XIII written by Alfred de Vigny and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Origins of French Absolutism, 1598-1661 by : Alan James
Download or read book The Origins of French Absolutism, 1598-1661 written by Alan James and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This controversial study takes the provocative line that the French monarchy was a complete success. James turns the idea of royal ‘absolutism’ on its head by redefining the French monarchy’s success from 1598 - 1661. The Origins of French Absolutism, 1598-1661 maintains that building blocks were not being laid by the so-called architects of absolutism, but that by satisfying long-established, traditional ambitions, cardinal ministers Richelieu and Mazarin undoubtedly made the confident, ambitious reign of the late century possible.
Book Synopsis France in the Age of Louis XIII and Richelieu by : Victor Lucien Tapié
Download or read book France in the Age of Louis XIII and Richelieu written by Victor Lucien Tapié and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis France in the Age of Louis XIII and Richelieu by : Victor L. Tapié
Download or read book France in the Age of Louis XIII and Richelieu written by Victor L. Tapié and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1984-07-12 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Louis the Fourteenth by : Miss Pardoe (Julia)
Download or read book Louis the Fourteenth written by Miss Pardoe (Julia) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Making of the French Episcopate, 1589-1661 by : Dr Joseph Bergin
Download or read book The Making of the French Episcopate, 1589-1661 written by Dr Joseph Bergin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major work, written by one of the leading historians of France's ancien regime, is the first in-depth study of the French upper clergy during the key period of the Catholic Reformation following the Council of Trent. In describing the creation, character, and role of these early French bishops, it also sheds light on social mobility, education, the career patterns and prospects of particular groups, the workings of patronage and clientage networks, and the wider dimensions of royal policy and patronage at this time. Joseph Bergin begins by analysing the structures of the French church and the process by which individuals were nominated and confirmed as bishops. He then presents a collective profile of these bishops in terms of their social and geographical origins, educational attainments, and pre-episcopal careers. Bergin examines royal patronage in relation to episcopal office, tracing the successive pressures with which the crown had to deal in the wider social and political world. In particular he shows how the crown painfully and gradually recovered control of church patronage after the low point of the religious wars, reducing the grip of the nobility on large numbers of dioceses. He also examines how reforming pressures were brought to bear on the crown to appoint bishops who met the standards of the counter-reformation church and how the crown became increasingly in tune with these reformist pressures. He concludes by explaining particular features of the French episcopate within a wider European context. The book, the result of years of research in French and Italian archives, includes an extensive biographical dictionary that will make it an invaluable reference for allFrench historians of the period.
Book Synopsis The Cardinal's Man by : M. G. Sinclair
Download or read book The Cardinal's Man written by M. G. Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France, 1600s: The Thirty Years War has spread across Europe, alliances are stretched to breaking point, and enemies advance on every side. And while Louis XIII sits on the throne, the real power lies with the notorious Cardinal Richelieu. Now, with Richelieu's health failing and France in grave danger, salvation may yet be found in the most unlikely form. Sebastian Morra, born into poverty and with terrible deformities, is a dwarf on a mission. Through a mixture of brains and luck, he has travelled far from his village to become a jester at the royal court. And with a talent for making enemies, he is soon drawn into the twilight world of Cardinal Richelieu, where he discovers he might just be the only man with the talents to save France from her deadliest foes.
Book Synopsis Éminence by : Jean-Vincent Blanchard
Download or read book Éminence written by Jean-Vincent Blanchard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chief Minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. One of the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he has captured the imagination of generations, both through the story of his life and through Alexandre Dumas's portrayal of him as a ruthless political mastermind in the classic The Three Musketeers. Jean-Vincent Blanchard's rich and insightful new biography brings Richelieu fully to life in all his complexity. His careful understanding of politics as spectacle speaks to contemporary readers; much of what he accomplished was promoted strategically through his great passion for theater and literature. ƒminence offers a rich portrait of a fascinating man and his era, and gives us a keener understanding of the dark art of politics. "Blanchard's captivating biography vividly captures the rise to power of a seminal figure who was instrumental in creating France as we know it."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Lovers of intrigue and derring-do will enjoy Jean-Vincent Blanchard's Eminence ... [His] lively style will appeal to general readers, while history buffs will appreciate his careful footnotes and plethora of primary sources."-The Baltimore Sun
Book Synopsis Richelieu and the French Monarchy by : Cicely Veronica Wedgwood
Download or read book Richelieu and the French Monarchy written by Cicely Veronica Wedgwood and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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