Author: Andrew HaggardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Real Louis the Fifteenth
Author: Andrew HaggardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Real Louis the Fifteenthe ...
Author: Andrew HaggardTo the end of the reign of Louis the Fifteenth
Author: Thomas Edward WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Life in the Georgian Court
Author: Catherine CurzonPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 147384553X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
This lively history of Europe’s royal families through the 18th and early 19th centuries reveals the decadence and danger of court life. As the glittering Hanoverian court gives birth to the British Georgian era, a golden age of royalty dawns in Europe. Houses rise and fall, births, marriages and scandals change the course of history. Meanwhile, in France, Revolution stalks the land. Life in the Georgian Court pulls back the curtain on the opulent court of the doomed Bourbons, the absolutist powerhouse of Romanov Russia, and the epoch-defining royal family whose kings gave their name to the era, the House of Hanover. Beneath the powdered wigs and robes of state were real people living lives of romance, tragedy, intrigue and eccentricity. Historian Catherine Curzon reveals the private lives of these very public figures, vividly recounting the arranged marriages that turned to love or hate and the scandals that rocked polite society. Here the former wife of a king spends three decades in lonely captivity, King George IV makes scandalous eyes at the toast of the London stage, and Marie Antoinette begins her final journey through Paris as her son sits alone in a forgotten prison cell. Life in the Georgian Court is a privileged peek into the glamorous, tragic and iconic courts of the Georgian world, where even a king could take nothing for granted.
The Sisters of Versailles
Author: Sally ChristiePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501102966
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Court intriguers are beginning to sense that young King Louis XV, after seven years of marriage, is tiring of his Polish wife. The race is on to find a mistress for the royal bed. The King's scheming ministers push Louise, the eldest of the aristocratic Nesle sisters, into the arms of the King. Over the following decade, of the five Nesle sisters-- Louise, Pauline, Diane, Hortense, and Marie-Anne-- four will become mistresses to King Louis XV. All will conspire, betray, suffer, and triumph in a desperate fight for both love and power.
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Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 1426
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1310
Book Description
The American Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
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The Story of France
Author: Thomas Edward WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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The Book Monthly
Author: James MilnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description