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Author : Geoffrey De Bellaigue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521266376
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (663 download)
Download or read book The Louis XVI Service written by Geoffrey De Bellaigue and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is devoted exclusively to the Louis XVI service and the art and artists who created it.
Author : Geoffrey De Bellaigue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Louis XVI Service written by Geoffrey De Bellaigue and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Hardman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300220421
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Life of Louis XVI written by John Hardman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers Louis XVI of France, who was guillotined in 1793 during the Revolution and Reign of Terror, is commonly portrayed in fiction and film either as a weak and stupid despot in thrall to his beautiful, shallow wife, Marie Antoinette, or as a cruel and treasonous tyrant. Historian John Hardman disputes both these versions in a fascinating new biography of the ill-fated monarch. Based in part on new scholarship that has emerged over the past two decades, Hardman's illuminating study describes a highly educated ruler who, though indecisive, possessed sharp political insight and a talent for foreign policy; who often saw the dangers ahead but could not or would not prevent them; and whose great misfortune was to be caught in the violent center of a major turning point in history. Hardman's dramatic reassessment of the reign of Louis XVI sheds a bold new light on the man, his actions, his world, and his policies, including the king's support for America's War of Independence, the intricate workings of his court, the disastrous Diamond Necklace Affair, and Louis's famous dash to Varennes.
Author : John Milner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Funeral Oration of ... Louis XVI. Pronounced at the Funeral Service Performed by the French Clergy of the King's House, Winchester, at St. Peter's Chapel, in the Said City, April 12, M,DCC,XCIII. written by John Milner and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ambrogio A. Caiani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139789732
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789–1792 written by Ambrogio A. Caiani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience, and failure, of Louis XVI's short-lived constitutional monarchy of 1789–92 deeply influenced the politics and course of the French Revolution. The dramatic breakdown of the political settlement of 1789 steered the French state into the decidedly stormy waters of political terror and warfare on an almost global scale. This book explores how the symbolic and political practices which underpinned traditional Bourbon kingship ultimately succumbed to the radical challenge posed by the Revolution's new 'proto-republican' culture. While most previous studies have focused on Louis XVI's real and imagined foreign counterrevolutionary plots, Ambrogio A. Caiani examines the king's hitherto neglected domestic activities in Paris. Drawing on previously unexplored archival source material, Caiani provides an alternative reading of Louis XVI in this period, arguing that the monarch's symbolic behaviour and the organisation of his daily activities and personal household were essential factors in the people's increasing alienation from the newly established constitutional monarchy.
Author : Joanna Gwilt
Publisher : Royal Collection Trust
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book French Porcelain for English Palaces written by Joanna Gwilt and published by Royal Collection Trust. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a guide to the history of SSvres porcelain as epitomised by seventy of the most important examples in the Royal Collection.
Author : Darlene Nossaman
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764314834
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (148 download)
Download or read book Homer Laughlin China written by Darlene Nossaman and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy and comprehensive guide quickly identifies the shapes, decorations, and patterns of dinnerware made by the Homer Laughlin China Company of East Liverpool, Ohio, from 1874 to the present. Their ever-popular Fiesta, Harlequin, and Historical American Subjects are just three of more than 160 different entries covered here in the A to Z listing.
Author : John Cornelius O'Callaghan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France, written by John Cornelius O'Callaghan and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Harold Beik
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349005266
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The French Revolution written by Paul Harold Beik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy Rowlands
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521641241
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)
Download or read book The Dynastic State and the Army Under Louis XIV written by Guy Rowlands and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'personal rule' of Louis XIV witnessed a massive increase in the size of the French army and an apparent improvement in the quality of its officers, its men and the War Ministry. However, this is the first book to treat the French army under Louis XIV as a living political, social and economic organism, an institution which reflected the dynastic interests and personal concerns of the king and his privileged subjects. The book explains the development of the army between the end of Cardinal Mazarin's ministry and the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession, emphasising the awareness of Louis XIV and his ministers of the need to pay careful attention to the condition of the king's officers, and to take account of their military, political, social and cultural aspirations.
Author : John Hardman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300249039
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Marie-Antoinette written by John Hardman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “wonderfully gripping biography” digs beneath the famous legend to present a nuanced and revealing portrait of a serious-mined monarch (Allan Massie, Wall Street Journal). As the last Queen of France before the French Revolution, Marie-Antoinette was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, while today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. But who was she really? In this new account, John Hardman redresses the balance and sheds fresh light on her story. Hardman shows how Marie-Antoinette played a significant but misunderstood role in the crisis of the monarchy. Drawing on new sources, he describes how she refused to prioritize the aggressive foreign policy of her mother, bravely took over the helm from her faltering husband, and, when revolution broke out, worked closely with repentant radicals to give the constitutional monarchy a fighting chance. For the first time, Hardman demonstrates exactly what influence Marie-Antoinette had and when and how she exerted it. Named a 2020 Book of the Year by The Spectator
Author : François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Telemachus written by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marie-Thérèse Charlotte Angoulême (duchesse d')
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Ruin of a Princess written by Marie-Thérèse Charlotte Angoulême (duchesse d') and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy Tackett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674044207
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book When the King Took Flight written by Timothy Tackett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a few miles from the Belgian border and forced to return to Paris. Two years later they would both die at the guillotine. It is this extraordinary story, and the events leading up to and away from it, that Tackett recounts in gripping novelistic style. The king's flight opens a window to the whole of French society during the Revolution. Each dramatic chapter spotlights a different segment of the population, from the king and queen as they plotted and executed their flight, to the people of Varennes who apprehended the royal family, to the radicals of Paris who urged an end to monarchy, to the leaders of the National Assembly struggling to control a spiraling crisis, to the ordinary citizens stunned by their king's desertion. Tackett shows how Louis's flight reshaped popular attitudes toward kingship, intensified fears of invasion and conspiracy, and helped pave the way for the Reign of Terror. Tackett brings to life an array of unique characters as they struggle to confront the monumental transformations set in motion in 1789. In so doing, he offers an important new interpretation of the Revolution. By emphasizing the unpredictable and contingent character of this story, he underscores the power of a single event to change irrevocably the course of the French Revolution, and consequently the history of the world.
Author : David P. Jordan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520036840
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (368 download)
Download or read book The King's Trial written by David P. Jordan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helene Delalex
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606064835
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Marie-Antoinette written by Helene Delalex and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie-Antoinette (1755–1793) continues to fascinate historians, writers, and filmmakers more than two centuries after her death. She became a symbol of the excesses of France’s aristocracy in the eighteenth century that helped pave the way to dissolution of the country’s monarchy. The great material privileges she enjoyed and her glamorous role as an arbiter of fashion and a patron of the arts in the French court, set against her tragic death on the scaffold, still spark the popular imagination. In this gorgeously illustrated volume, the authors find a fresh and nuanced approach to Marie-Antoinette’s much-told story through the objects and locations that made up the fabric of her world. They trace the major events of her life, from her upbringing in Vienna as the archduchess of Austria, to her ascension to the French throne, to her execution at the hands of the revolutionary tribunal. The exquisite objects that populated Marie-Antoinette’s rarefied surroundings—beautiful gowns, gilt-mounted furniture, chinoiserie porcelains, and opulent tableware—are depicted. But so too are possessions representing her personal pursuits and private world, including her sewing kit, her harp, her children’s toys, and even the simple cotton chemise she wore as a condemned prisoner. The narrative is sprinkled with excerpts from her correspondence, which offer a glimpse into her personality and daily life. Visually rich and engaging, Marie-Antoinette offers a fascinating look at the multifaceted life of France’s last, ill-fated queen.
Author : Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396223
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Visitors to Versailles written by Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to visit one of the most magnificent courts of Europe? Based on a wealth of contemporary documents and surviving works of art, this lavish book explores the experiences of those who swarmed the palace and grounds of Versailles when it was the seat of the French monarchy. Engaging essays describe methods of transportation, the elaborate codes of dress and etiquette, precious diplomatic gifts, royal audiences, and tours of the palace and gardens. Also presented are the many types of visitors and guests who eagerly made their way to this center of power and culture, including day-trippers and Grand Tourists, European diplomats, overseas ambassadors, incognito travelers, and Americans. Through paintings and portraits, furniture, costumes and uniforms, arms and armor, guidebooks, and other works of art, Visitors to Versailles illuminates what travelers encountered at court and what impressions, gifts, and souvenirs they took home with them. In bringing to life their experiences, this sumptuously illustrated volume reminds us why Versailles has enchanted generations of visitors from the ancien régime to the present day.
