Hotel Du Barry

Author : Lesley Truffle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 145873255X

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Hotel Du Barry by Lesley Truffle Pdf

London's luxurious Hotel Du Barry has been left unscathed by WW1 and the party has just begun: tainted love, murderous desires and gin. It's THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL with a dash of Gatsby. When a laughing baby is found amongst the Hotel du Barry's billowing sheets, tucked up in an expensive pair of ladies' bloomers and neatly pegged to the laundry line, the hotel staff resolve to keep the child. The hotel's owner, Daniel du Barry, still mourning the loss of his lover in an automobile accident, adopts the little girl, names her after his favourite champagne and seeks consolation in fatherhood. Cat du Barry grows up beloved by both hotel staff and guests, equally at home in the ninth floor premium suite as she is in the labyrinth below stairs. Years later when Daniel du Barry dies in sinister circumstances, Cat determines to solve the mystery with the assistance of her extended hotel family. From hotel detective to roguish Irish gigolo, from compassionate housekeeper to foxy chamber maid, each will play their wicked part in this novel that will charm, amuse and delight.

Author : Allan Braham
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520067398

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The Architecture of the French Enlightenment by Allan Braham Pdf

Allan Braham's comprehensive treatment of this brilliant and complex period introduces the reader to the major buildings, architects, and architectural patrons of the day. At the same time, it explores the broader determinants of architectural production: the rapid economic expansion of Paris and the main provincial centers and the increasing demand for improved public amenities--theaters, schools, markets, and hospitals. This generously illustrated book provides a vivid commentary on society and manners in pre-Revolutionary France.

Author : Lesley Truffle
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460706107

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Hotel Du Barry by Lesley Truffle Pdf

Heartbreak, joy and nefarious doings at London's luxurious HOTEL DU BARRY. A book for lovers of fine gin, murderous impulses and writing of the ilk of Jonas Jonasson. When a laughing baby is found amongst the Hotel du Barry's billowing sheets, tucked up in an expensive pair of ladies' bloomers and neatly pegged to the laundry line, the hotel staff resolve to keep the child. The hotel's owner, Daniel du Barry, still mourning the loss of his lover in an automobile accident, adopts the little girl, names her after his favourite champagne and seeks consolation in fatherhood. Cat du Barry grows up beloved by both hotel staff and guests, equally at home in the ninth-floor premium suite as she is in the labyrinth below stairs. Years later when Daniel du Barry dies in sinister circumstances, Cat determines to solve the mystery with the assistance of her extended hotel family. From hotel detective to roguish Irish gigolo, from compassionate housekeeper to foxy chamber maid, each will play their wicked part in this novel that will charm, amuse and delight. PRAISE 'This is a wonderful romp of a novel, that brilliantly evokes the attraction and the dangers of the Jazz Age. There is plenty of fabulous fashion and empathetic characters -- it cries out to be made into a film starring Helen Mirren' NZ Women's Weekly 'A must read' - Sunshine Coast Daily

Author : Joanna L. Arat
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780738597560

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Hotel Du Pont by Joanna L. Arat Pdf

Over the course of 100 years, the prestigious Hotel du Pont has welcomed future and former presidents, first ladies, world leaders, Nobel Prize recipients, royalty, music maestros, sports legends, and stars of stage and screen--earning its reputation as the premier hotel in the state of Delaware. The Green Room, one of the most elegant hotel dining rooms in the country, features traditional French cuisine. The Gold Ballroom and other ornate European-inspired rooms provide luxurious venues for public and private events. A nationally recognized art collection showcasing original paintings by Andrew Wyeth adorns the Christina Room's walls. A state-of-the-art conference center and a 1,250-seat theater add to amenities that make the Hotel du Pont a first-choice destination for business and social events. Often labeled the front door of DuPont, the hotel is strategically located in the company's world headquarters.

Author : Hugh Noel Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000054446517

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Madame Du Barry by Hugh Noel Williams Pdf

Madame Du Barry by Hugh Noel Williams, first published in 1909, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Author : Robert A. Schneider
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501746239

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Public Life in Toulouse, 1463–1789 by Robert A. Schneider Pdf

This book focuses on the public life of the ancien regime over the course of more than 300 years, from the late fifteenth century to the French Revolution. Not merely a narrative of that crowded history, it offers both a reconstruction and an analysis of a variety of religious and cultural movements, from the Renaissance and the Wars of Religion to the Counter-Reformation and the Enlightenment, within the social and political context of Toulouse, a regional capital and a city with a strong local tradition. Professor Schneider takes up a wide range of early modern topics: popular culture, religious riots, municipal government, lay piety, and spiritual kinship, and he also treats learned academies, poor relief, social conflict, civic festivals, Jansenism, and urbanism. He discovers that despite the formation of a new elite in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries—an elite composed of powerful royal magistrates attached to the Parlement of Toulouse and wealthy pastel merchants—the cultural and social ties binding this elite to the urban populace persisted, and the city's public life maintained its local character. Schneider shows that in the late seventeenth century, however, these "vertical" ties began to break down; elites began to turn away from local concerns, and Toulouse's public life was fundamentally transformed. He points to several factors influencing this transformation: the local effects of absolutism, the appeal of Parisian culture and academic life, and the increased social tensions between the prosperous and the poor. By the eighteenth century, Toulouse, once considered a municipal republic, had become a cosmopolitan city. Relating developments in Toulouse to changes occurring elsewhere in France, this book heightens our understanding of the complex cultural ramifications of the rise of the increasingly centralized, absolutist state.

Author : Hugh Noel Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : France
ISBN : UCAL:$B320960

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Memoirs of Madame Du Barry, of the Court of Louis XV by Hugh Noel Williams Pdf

Author : Anthony Vidler
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035620832

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Claude-Nicolas Ledoux by Anthony Vidler Pdf

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) is today regarded as chief representative of French revolutionary architecture. With his extraordinary inventiveness he projected the architectural ideals of his era. Ledoux’s influential buildings and projects are presented and interpreted both aesthetically and historically in this book. His best-known projects – the Royal Saltwords of Arc-et-Senans, the tollgates of Paris, the ideal city of Chaux – reveal the architect’s allegiance to the principles of antiquity and Renaissance but also illustrate the evolution of his own utopian language. With the French Revolution, Ledoux ceased building as his contemporaries perceived him as a royal architect. He focused on the development of his architectural theory and redefined the vision of the modern architect.

Author : John Franceschina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135580667

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Gore On Stage by John Franceschina Pdf

It is a generally accepted fact that in the first half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Gore became the most prolific, if not most popular writer of fashionable novels in England. It is less well known that Mrs. Gore's 200-volume output included eleven extremely popular, if not always critically successful, plays, performed at all three of the Theatres Royal in London: Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and the Haymarket. While several of the plays held the stage in England and the United States well into the second half of the nineteenth century, modern critical appraisals of the works have been hampered by the lack of available texts. Gore on Stage, for the first time provides performance texts of all of Mrs. Gore's work for the stage, including original cast lists, criticial responses, illustrations, and glossaries of foreign words and nineteenth-century jargon. Students of drama and nineteenth-century literature will delight in the intricacies of plot and theatrical effects in this collection of historical melodramas, comedies of manners, and farces; and they will marvel at the contemporary nature of the plays' themes, trading on a balance of power between male and female characters.

Author : Robert Bruce Douglas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Favorites, Royal
ISBN : HARVARD:32044087867313

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The Life and Times of Madame Du Barry by Robert Bruce Douglas Pdf

Author : Edmond de Goncourt,Jules de Goncourt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Favorites, Royal
ISBN : UOM:39015026114218

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Madame Du Barry by Edmond de Goncourt,Jules de Goncourt Pdf

Author : Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls with James Taylor
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781784779177

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Gascony & the Pyrenees by Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls with James Taylor Pdf

Written by expert travel-writers with more than 40 titles to their name, Bradt’s Gascony & the Pyrenees is the only current English-language guide to the entirety of this fascinating, relatively under-visited and consequently affordable region of southwest France. Offering advice on where to stay and eat with what to do and see, this new guide provides everything you need for an enjoyable, fulfilling visit. In Gascony, everyone can find their own adventure. Surfers can ride Atlantic waves at Hossegor and Mimizan. Sun-seekers can loll on the Landes’ beaches, then stretch their legs by climbing Europe’s tallest sand dune, the Dune du Pilat. Hikers can trek high into the Pyrenees to gawp at majestic cirques, while those less energetic can go on a donkey-backl. Families can bike along numerous backways, while cycling buffs cheer on the professionals during the Pyrenees stage of the Tour de France. Activity enthusiasts aside, the region will delight anyone who craves a slower-paced holiday in beautiful natural landscapes. Culture buffs can linger in the coastal art havens of Collioure, Port- Vendres and Céret, or discover Palaeolithic cave art at Niaux and Le Mas-d’Azil. Pilgrims can follow the path to Lourdes. Fans of the bizarre can visit Salvador Dali’s ‘centre of the universe’ (Perpignan train station) or La Pourcailhade, the pig festival of Tri-sur-Baïse. Urbanites can enjoy the splendours of Perpignan, Bayonne, Biarritz and Auch, or take it down a notch at medieval Catalan villages. For quirky retail therapy, shopaholics can browse the espadrilles for which Mauléon is famed or the berets synonymous with Oloron-Sainte-Marie. Gourmets will delight in the quality of local cuisine, from cèpe mushrooms and poulet au pot to a flock of duck-based dishes. Cocooned within quiet, natural settings, yoga practitioners can calm mind and body with various wellness therapies. And whatever floats your boat, everyone can relax in some of the hundreds of personally recommended places to stay – from charming inns and spas to restored medieval stables, and even the astronomers’ dormitories at the Pic du Midi. All conveyed through the intimate expert insights that characterise Bradt’s Gascony & the Pyrenees.

Author : Anita Brookner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307826220

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Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner Pdf

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • When romance writer Edith Hope’s life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, she flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses. "Brookner's most absorbing novel ... wryly realistic ... graceful and attractive." —Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive. In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?"

Author : Lesley Truffle
Publisher : Harper Collins Italia
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788858958063

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Hotel du Barry (versione italiana) by Lesley Truffle Pdf

Di solito i bambini abbandonati vengono lasciati sulla porta di ospedali ed orfanotrofi, oppure tra gli scaffali di tetri grandi magazzini o in sudice stazioni ferroviarie. La neonata conosciuta come "la bambina dell'Hotel du Barry", invece, è avvolta in un paio di mutandoni da donna e appesa al filo del bucato nel cortile della lavanderia del lussuoso albergo londinese, miracolosamente scampato ai bombardamenti della prima guerra mondiale. Conquistati dal sorriso della piccina, i membri del personale decidono all'unanimità di tenerla con loro e con mezzi non del tutto ortodossi convincono il proprietario, Daniel, ad adottarla. Cat cresce così amata e coccolata sia dallo staff che dagli ospiti dell'hotel, ugualmente a proprio agio nella sontuosa suite del nono piano e nel labirinto di corridoi dello scantinato. Molti anni dopo, quando Daniel du Barry muore in circostanze a dir poco sospette, Cat decide di risolvere il mistero, e chiede aiuto ai membri della sua insolita famiglia dal detective dell'albergo al gigolò irlandese, dalla compassionevole prima governante alla seducente cameriera perché l'aiutino a inchiodare l'assassino dell'uomo che le ha fatto da padre. Un mistery insolito e brillante sullo sfondo dei ruggenti anni Trenta, capace al tempo stesso di commuovere e divertire.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781400016877

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France 2007 by Anonim Pdf

Provides information on French history and culture, and shares advice on sightseeing, shopping, and entertainment