Author: Imbert de Saint-AmandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Women of Versailles
Author: Imbert de Saint-AmandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Women of Versailles
Author: Imbert de Saint-AmandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Women of Versailles
Author: Imbert de Saint-AmandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Women of Versailles
Author: Kate BrownPublisher: Seren
ISBN: 1781723788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
'Dark and rich, The Women of Versailles is filled with political intrigue, sexual awakening, and the roots of revolution.' – Peggy Riley. In The Women of Versailles, the narrative slips between the decadent world of Versailles during the reign of Louis XV and the day, just before the French revolution in 1789, that Versailles is stormed by the women of Paris and Louis XVI is forced to move the court to the Tuileries. At the centre of this story is Adélaïde, who struggles with her budding sexuality and a desire for freedom of expression, both of which conflict with the expectations of the restrictive court. Adélaïde envies her brother, is bored with her sister and, when Madame de Pompadour, a bourgeoise, comes to court as her father's mistress, she is smitten, with dangerous results. Adélaïde pushes against the confines of the court, blind to the difference between a mistress and princess, with tragic results. Forty-four years later, under the looming shadow of the revolution, what has happened to the hopes of a young girl and the doomed regime in which she grew up?
Women of Versailles
Author: Arthur Léon baron Imbert de Saint-AmandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Women of Versailles
Author: Imbert de Saint-AmandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Servants of the Dynasty
Author: Anne WalthallPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520941519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. Written by leading historians, anthropologists, and archeologists, these lively essays take us from Mayan states to twentieth-century Benin in Nigeria, to the palace of Japanese Shoguns, the Chinese Imperial courts, eighteenth-century Versailles, Mughal India, and beyond. Together they investigate how women's roles differed, how their roles changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the structures of power and societies in which they lived. This work also furthers our understanding of how royal courts, created to project the authority of male rulers, maintained themselves through the reproductive and productive powers of women.
Women of Versailles
Author: Arthur Léon baron Imbert de Saint-AmandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Women of Versailles - The Court of Louis XIV
Author: Imbert Saint-AmandPublisher: Case Press
ISBN: 9781446070321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
WOMEN OF VERSAILLES
Author: IMBERT DE. SAINT-AMANDPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033153116
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description