Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781332802647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Excerpt from The Regent's Daughter The regent was not fortunate in his legitimate daughters. The career of the Duchesse de Berri is revolting and saddening in the extreme, even although we are told by one of the contemporary memoir-writers that a post-mortem examination revealed the fact that she was crack-brained. The convent life of the Abbess of Chelles was little short of scandalous; while the matrimonial bickerings of Mademoiselle de Valois and her husband, the Duke of Modena, were of European notoriety. A fourth daughter became the wife of the Prince of Asturias, and was Queen of Spain for the few months which intervened between the absurd abdication of Philippe V. And the death of her husband. Her leading characteristics were an extremely morose disposition, and personal habits slovenly in the extreme; and her Spanish subjects seized the first convenient pretext to send her back to France, and were very remiss in remitting her allowance. The youngest of all, Mademoiselle de Beaujolais, was the only one who combined good morals with an attractive personality, and she died of a broken heart almost before she was out of her teens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.