Author: Guy de MaupassantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Queen Hortense,the Wandering Life and Other Stories
Author: Guy de MaupassantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Monsieur Parent, Queen Hortense, Fascination and Other Stories
Author: Guy de Maupassant“The Wandering Life I Led”
Author: Susan ShifrinPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144381184X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book of essays brings together international scholars working on the literary, visual, musical, and theatrical representations and reception of Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin, an early modern woman whose literal—geographical—“border crossings” serve here as the starting point for an investigation of her and others’ elisions and transgressions of borders of all kinds. The authors lay out strategies for exploring the ways in which she crossed geographical, gendered, cultural, and—in scholarly terms—disciplinary boundaries, and in so doing, consider how an investigation of those border crossings can enhance our understanding of early modern cultural formation. The new work presented here by some of the most distinguished junior and senior scholars working today in the fields of history, art history, literary history, the history of theater, and the history of music promises to stimulate a broader scholarly discussion about early modern border-crossing and women’s places in the early modern period in general.
Monsieur Parent, Queen Hortense, and other stories
Author: Guy de MaupassantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, French
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Kings' Mistresses
Author: Elizabeth C GoldsmithPublisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1586488902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Mancini Sisters, Marie and Hortense, were born in Rome, brought to the court of Louis XIV of France, and strategically married off by their uncle, Cardinal Mazarin, to secure his political power base. Such was the life of many young women of the age: they had no independent status under the law and were entirely a part of their husband's property once married. Marie and Hortense, however, had other ambitions in mind altogether. Miserable in their marriages and determined to live independently, they abandoned their husbands in secret and began lives of extraordinary daring on the run and in the public eye. The beguiling sisters quickly won the affections of noblemen and kings alike. Their flight became popular fodder for salon conversation and tabloids, and was closely followed by seventeenth-century European society. The Countess of Grignan remarked that they were traveling "like two heroines out of a novel." Others gossiped that they "were roaming the countryside in pursuit of wandering lovers. "Their scandalous behavior -- disguising themselves as men, gambling, and publicly disputing with their husbands -- served as more than just entertainment. It sparked discussions across Europe concerning the legal rights of husbands over their wives. Elizabeth Goldsmith's vibrant biography of the Mancini sisters -- drawn from personal papers of the players involved and the tabloids of the time -- illuminates the lives of two pioneering free spirits who were feminists long before the word existed.
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Books Added
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Book Bulletin
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Book Bulletin of the Chicago Public Library
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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