![The Private Memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, Lady's Maid to Madame De Pompadour. [Translated from the French.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/EV9iAAAAcAAJ?fife=w150-h200)
Author: Nicolle DU HAUSSAYPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Private Memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, Lady's Maid to Madame De Pompadour. [Translated from the French.]
![The Private Memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, Lady's Maid to Madame De Pompadour. [Translated from the French.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/EV9iAAAAcAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Nicolle DU HAUSSAYThe Lady's Monthly Museum
Author: In the Shadow of the Empress
Author: Nancy GoldstonePublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316449318
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa—one of the most renowned women rulers in history—and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France. Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of uncommon strength and vision, the only woman ever to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg Empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor-general of the Austrian Netherlands; spirited Maria Carolina, the resolute queen of Naples; and the youngest, Marie Antoinette, the glamorous, tragic queen of France, and perhaps the most famous princess in history. Unfolding against an irresistible backdrop of brilliant courts from Vienna to Versailles, embracing the exotic lure of Naples and Sicily, this epic history of Maria Theresa and her daughters is a tour de force of desire, adventure, ambition, treachery, sorrow, and glory. Each of these women’s lives was packed with passion and heart-stopping suspense. Maria Theresa inherited her father’s thrones at the age of twenty-three and was immediately attacked on all sides by foreign powers confident that a woman would to be too weak to defend herself. Maria Christina, a gifted artist who alone among her sisters succeeded in marrying for love, would face the same dangers that destroyed the monarchy in France. Resourceful Maria Carolina would usher in the golden age of Naples only to face the deadly whirlwind of Napoleon. And, finally, Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen whose stylish excesses and captivating notoriety have masked the truth about her husband and herself for two hundred and fifty years. Vividly written and deeply researched, In the Shadow of the Empress is the riveting story of four exceptional women who changed the course of history.
Literary News
Author: Literary News
Author: Frederick LeypoldtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Sale Catalogues
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description
Sale
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Catalog
Author: Walter M. Hill (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description