Author: Geoffrey De BellaiguePublisher:
ISBN: 9780521266376
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This volume is devoted exclusively to the Louis XVI service and the art and artists who created it.
The Louis XVI Service
Author: Geoffrey De BellaiguePublisher:
ISBN: 9780521266376
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This volume is devoted exclusively to the Louis XVI service and the art and artists who created it.
The Louis XVI Service
Author: Geoffrey De BellaiguePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Life of Louis XVI
Author: John HardmanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300220421
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
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.
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.
Author: John MilnerLouis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789–1792
Author: Ambrogio A. CaianiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139789732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
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.
French Porcelain for English Palaces
Author: Joanna GwiltPublisher: Royal Collection Trust
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book provides a guide to the history of SSvres porcelain as epitomised by seventy of the most important examples in the Royal Collection.
Homer Laughlin China
Author: Darlene NossamanPublisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780764314834
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France
Author: John Cornelius O'CallaghanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The French Revolution
Author: Paul Harold BeikPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349005266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Marie-Antoinette
Author: John HardmanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300249039
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
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