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Author : Imbert de Saint-Amand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : France
ISBN : HARVARD:HWQSFZ
Author : Olivier Bernier
Publisher : New Word City
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640191693
"History as it ought to be written." - The New Yorker Louis XV lived an enchanted life. He had extraordinary good looks, absolute power, spectacular palaces, and the total grandeur that only eighteenth-century France could provide. The French people adored him and called him "the beloved." During his reign, France flourished, and had it not been for his successor, the chaos of the Revolution might never have happened. History, however, has not only been unkind in its assessment of Louis XV but also mistaken, as this absorbing biography demonstrates. In it, Olivier Bernier explains the development of the negative judgment, showing how the beloved Louis became maligned after his death. The author refutes the unfavorable assessment using such credible sources as the king's state papers, which remain intact in France's national archives. Louis XV emerges in these pages as one of the best French kings, thoughtful and caring, loving and loved by his people.
Author : Pierre Gaxotte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : France
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041385027
Author : L. Bungener
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368819989
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author : Imbert de Saint-Amand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : France
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019997399
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1770
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023501268
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1774
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025230137
Author : James Pritchard
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773561199
Pritchard's chief concern is to explain why Bourbon France, the richest and most poewerful state in Europe in the middle of the eighteenth century, failed to exercise its power at sea. Through a close examination of naval organization -- the secretaries of state for the navy, central bureaus, officers of the sword and pen, seamen, arsenals, workers, probems of shipbuilding, ordnance production and material acquisition, and finances -- he shows the navy as both an institution embedded in society and an instrument of government. The tensions arising from the contradiction between an institution composed of individuals who sought to advance their own and group interests and an instrument that existed to fulfil government ends were aggravated by an administation of men rather than norms. Pritchard traces many of the shortcomings of naval administratrion to the intensely personal bonds and idiosyncratic behaviour of the individuals who ran it. Many of Pritchards's conclusions run counter to the generallly accepted accounts of problems in the French navy during this period and to the usual view of Choiseul as the saviour of French maritime power. The first complete study of this period of French naval administration, Pritchard's work parallels Baugh's on the British navy.
Author : Imbert de Saint-Amand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : France
ISBN : OCLC:1403841697
Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1981881719
*Includes famous art depicting King Louis XVI and important people, places, and events in his life. *Explains his reign and role in the American Revolution and French Revolution. *Analyzes his execution and legacy. "I die perfectly innocent of the so-called crimes of which I am accused. I pardon those who are the cause of my misfortunes." - Louis XVI A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' French series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of France's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Louis XVI is one of the most famous Kings of France, but for reasons he would have much rather avoided. Coming of age in the wake of the reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and his father, Louis XV, Louis XVI initially intended to be one of France's most enlightened Kings. Instead, he was destined to be the only French King ever executed. Indeed, it is his death and his role in fomenting the French Revolution (along with his infamous Queen, Marie Antoinette) that continue to play the central role in Louis XVI's legacy. The abrupt demise of Louis XVI and his reign capped a tumultuous but important historical period for both France and the rest of the world. It was Louis XVI's wish to reform France in the mold of the Enlightenment and his failure to push those reforms against a reluctant aristocracy that emboldened and spurred those who would rebel against him. At the same time, his support for the American cause during the American Revolution in the 1770s was integral in securing that nation's freedom and further adding to France's financial woes. Ironically, France's role in assuring the success of the American Revolution provided a hopeful example for those who would overthrow him less than 15 years later. The same cautious conservatism that marred his reign in the eyes of so many ultimately led to the chain of events that made him a victim of the guillotine. With French society in open revolt by the late 1780s, the King appeared indecisive at a number of crucial moments, including during a famous attempted escape that was thwarted at Vergennes, and he had to literally run for his life when a mob stormed the royal palace at Tuileries. Soonafter he was stripped of his dignity and his royal name, convicted of high treason in a sham trial as Citizen Louis Capet. Ironically, in death, some historians have asserted that his execution and the sympathy it engendered helped bring about the Restoration a generation later. French Legends: The Life and Legacy of King Louis XVI looks at the life and reign of one of history's most famous Kings, explaining his role in two of history's most famous revolutions and analyzing his legacy. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Louis XVI like you never have before, in no time at all.
Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : France
ISBN : HARVARD:HWBHZH
Author : Andrew Haggard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : France
ISBN : PRNC:32101007598962
Author : Juergen Teller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Photography of the nude
ISBN : 3865210627
In the gauche surroundings of a hotel room, Juergen Teller combines the braggadocio of his nude self-portraits with his ongoing paean to woman in an often x-rated filmic narrative. The faux-leather bound, gold leaf tipped slim volume, Louis XV contains a series of photographs that is an intimate tale of lust and excess with his latest muse, the actress Charlotte Rampling. Teller's work is essentially autobiographical--his art has always explored his personal milieu of friends and family and his position at the intersection of fashion and art. For some years he has also used the self-portrait as a ground for personal expression, theatrical role-play and exploring his relationship to his own history. At the same time, as essasyist Adrian Searle points out, "Teller frequently makes his appearance in his own photographs as though he has just blundered in like an unexpected and unwelcome guest, a gatecrasher. There is something either farcial or vainglorious about this, perhaps both. Something almost obscene, too, about the way he overwhelms certain of his images, disrupting them, hogging the lens, filling the frame, crashing about unconstrained, unleashed, as it were, dragging his life about with him. It is somehow embarrassing. You want to look the other way." Included with Louis XV is the 104-page exhibition catalogue, Ich Bin Vierzig, a paperback collection of selected images from the photographer's past works. It includes highlights from his Tracht and The Clients series.
Author : Imbert De Saint-Amand
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1356046983
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Author : Julian Swann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 052148362X
Politics in eighteenth-century France was dominated by the relationship between the crown and the magistrates of the Parlement of Paris. The Parlement provided a traditional check upon the King's authority, but after 1750 it entered a period of prolonged confrontation with the government of Louis XV. The religious, financial and administrative policies of the monarchy were subject to sustained opposition, and the magistrates employed arguments which challenged the foundations of royal authority. This struggle was brought to an abrupt conclusion in 1771, when Chancellor de Maupeou implemented a royal revolution, breaking the power of the Parlement. In order to explain why the crown and the Parlement drifted into conflict, this study re-examines the conduct of government under Louis XV, the role of the magistrates, and the structure of judicial politics in eighteenth-century France.