Author: Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans (duchesse d')Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Letters from Liselotte
Author: Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans (duchesse d')Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A Woman's Life in the Court of the Sun King
Author: Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans (duchesse d')Publisher:
ISBN: 9780801856358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
On 16 November 1671, Liselotte von der Pfalz, the nineteen-year-old daughter of the Elector of Palatine, was married to Philippe d'Orleans, "Monsieur, " the only brother of Louis XIV. The marriage was not to be a happy one. Liselotte (known in France as Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orleans, or "Madame") was full of intellectual energy and moral rigor. Homesick for her native Germany, she felt temperamentally ill-suited to life at the French court. The homosexual Monsieur, deeply immersed in the pleasures and intrigues of the court, shared few of his wife's interests. Yet, for the next fifty years, Liselotte remained in France, never far from the center of one of the most glorious courts of Europe. And throughout this period, she wrote letters - sometimes as many as forty a week - to her friends and relatives in Germany. It is from this extraordinary body of correspondence that A Woman's Life in the Court of the Sun King has been fashioned. As introduced and translated by Elborg Forster, the letters have become the remarkable personal narrative of Liselotte's transformation from an innocent, yet outspoken, girl into a formidable observer of great events and human folly.
Letters from Liselotte
Author: Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans (duchesse d')Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Married in 1672, at 19, to Louis XIV's bisexual brother, the Duke of Orleans, Liselotte began her voluminous and fascinating correspondence from the Court of Versailles which she continued until her death 50 years later, making her the greatest chronicler of her day.
Selected Letters
Author: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de SévignéPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014044405X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Describes the social and intellectual life of seventeenth-century France, including gossip about the court of King Louis XIV
The Letters of Madame
Author: Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans (duchesse d')Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals
Author: Paula Modersohn-BeckerPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810116443
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Recognized today as one of the great modernist painters, Paula Modersohn-Becker was also a gifted writer, and her large body of letters and journals represent the story of her life. This volume presents the journals and every extant letter, each carefully annotated.
My Dearest Minette
Author: Charles II (King of England)Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN: 9780720609912
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Charles II was a renowned ladies' man but, arguably his greatest love--though not in the Biblical sense--was his sister Minette. Separated from her in their youth by a royal inter-marriage, his letters reveal a tender and humane side not often seen in biographies of this cunning and calculating monarch.
Dear Friend
Author: Eric TorgersenPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810118195
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"In 1908, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote his "Requiem for a Friend" in memory of Paula Modersohn-Becker, the German painter who had had a profound effect on him, both personally and artistically, and who had died a year earlier. Modersohn-Becker, despite being one of the great modern painters, is today remembered primarily as she is portrayed in that poem. In Dear Friend, Eric Torgersen looks at the relationship of these two great artists whose vexed seven-year friendship was extraordinarily productive for both, and offers an introduction to the life and work of Modersohn-Becker, a gifted and determined woman whose work stands comparison with that of any painter of her day." "Included in the book are sixteen illustrations as well as new translations by Torgersen of Rilke's "Requiem for a Friend" and of the love poems Rilke wrote for Becker shortly after they met. Torgersen discusses Modersohn-Becker's vital paintings, including her unfinished portrait of Rilke. He quotes extensively from the letters and journals of both figures, translating many of Rilke's into English for the first time. Finally, Torgersen addresses the unanswered question of whether the two were ever lovers, and offers new insights into Rilke's writing of "Requiem for a Friend.""--Jacket.
The German Lesson
Author: Siegfried LenzPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811222268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the “The Joys of Duty.” Overfamiliar with these joys, Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, a constable, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist artist from painting and to seize all his “degenerate” work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. “I was trying to find out,” Lenz says, “where the joys of duty could lead a people.” Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins
Hitler's Furies
Author: Wendy LowerPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547863381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
About the participation of German women in World War II and in the Holocaust.