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Author : Laurent Angliviel de La Beaumelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1757
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N11733480
Author : Mark Bryant
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780228004325
Explores the life and court career of Madame de Maintenon. A study in queenship, it reveals how the dynamics of power and gender operated within the realms of early modern high politics, church-state affairs and international relations while providing unique insights into the Sun King and his court.
Author : Françoise d' Aubigné (marquise de Maintenon.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555075378
Author : lady Charlotte Julia von Leyden Blennerhassett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : France
ISBN : UCAL:$B83745
Author : C. C. Dyson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : France
ISBN : UCAL:$B320926
Author : Madame de Maintenon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226502403
Born Françoise d'Aubigné, a criminal's daughter reduced to street begging as a child, Madame de Maintenon (1653-1719) made an improbable rise from impoverished beginnings to the summit of power as the second, secret wife of Louis XIV. An educational reformer, Maintenon founded and directed the celebrated academy for aristocratic women at Saint-Cyr. This volume presents the dialogues and addresses in which Maintenon explains her controversial philosophy of education for women. Denounced by her contemporaries as a political schemer and religious fanatic, Maintenon has long been criticized as an opponent of gender equality. The writings in this volume faithfully reflect Maintenon's respect for social hierarchy and her stoic call for women to accept the duties of their state in life. But the writings also echo Maintenon's more feminist concerns: the need to redefine the virtues in the light of women's experience, the importance of naming the constraints on women's freedom, and the urgent need to remedy the scandalous neglect of the education of women. In her writings as well as in her own model school at Saint-Cyr, Maintenon embodies the demand for educational reform as the key to the empowerment of women at the dawn of modernity.
Author : Walter Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600022434
Author : Mark Bryant
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780228004318
Explores the life and court career of Madame de Maintenon. A study in queenship, it reveals how the dynamics of power and gender operated within the realms of early modern high politics, church-state affairs and international relations while providing unique insights into the Sun King and his court.
Author : Veronica Buckley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408860236
Françoise d'Aubigné, born in a bleak provincial prison, her father a condemned murderer and traitor to the state, rose from the depths of poverty to life at the vortex of power at Versailles. Married at fifteen to a tragically disfigured and scandalously popular poet, in his salon Françoise encountered all the brilliant characters of the seventeenth century's glitterati. After her husband's death, she led the life of a merry widow in the colourful Marais quarter of Paris, before becoming governess to the King's growing brood of royal bâtards. This is the extraordinary story of one woman's daring journey from beggar-girl, West Indian colonist and salonnière to royal mistress and thence, in secret, to the compromised position of Louis' uncrowned Queen. Through the rags-to-riches tale of the marquise de Maintenon, Veronica Buckley reveals every layer of the vibrant and shocking world that was France in the age of Louis XIV.
Author : Charlotte Julia L. von Blennerhassett
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1021743364
First published in the early 1900s, this biography provides a detailed account of the relationship between King Louis XIV of France and his mistress, Madame de Maintenon. The author, Charlotte Julia Leyden von Blennerhassett, was a noted historian and scholar of French history, and her book offers a fascinating glimpse into the court life of Versailles during the 17th and 18th centuries. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Madeleine Marie Saint-René Taillandier,Mary Sophie Lady Loyd
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021226742
Ce livre est consacré à Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, épouse secrète de Louis XIV et une figure clé de la cour de Versailles. L'auteur explore sa vie, de son enfance difficile à sa rencontre avec le roi, en passant par sa carrière d'éducatrice et sa prise de position dans la querelle janséniste. Un portrait complexe et nuancé de l'une des femmes les plus influentes de l'époque de Louis XIV. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Laurent Angliviel de La Beaumelle,M. de La Beaumelle (Laurent Angliviel)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1757
Category : Favorites, Royal
ISBN : UCSD:31822043011816
Author : Emily Bowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041384459
Author : Laurent Angliviel de La Beaumelle,M. de La Beaumelle (Laurent Angliviel)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1757
Category : Favorites, Royal
ISBN : UCSD:31822043011865
Author : Veronica Buckley
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000124598370
Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV, was born in a bleak French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor and murderer, her mother the warden’s seduced daughter. A timely pardon and a hopeful Caribbean colonial venture failed to mend the family’s fortunes, and Françoise was reduced to begging in the streets. Yet, armed with beauty, intellect, and shrewd judgment, she was to make her way to the center of power at Versailles, the most opulent and ambitious court in all Europe. At fifteen, she was married off to the forty-two-year-old satirical poet Paul Scarron, a former roué now grievously deformed by rheumatism—“a sort of human Z,” as he described himself. Despite his ailments, Scarron presided over the liveliest and most scandalous literary salon in Paris, and Françoise quickly became its most prized ornament. After Scarron’s death, she enjoyed a merry widowhood in the fashionable Marais district, in the company of the courtesan Ninon de Lenclos and the King’s splendid mistress, Athénaïs de Montespan, who made the young widow governess to her brood of illegitimate children. The appointment transformed Françoise’s life, but was fatal to the temperamental Athénaïs herself, with the King soon turning his attentions to the graceful governess. Françoise was raised to the nobility as Madame de Maintenon—and, unofficially, “Madame de Maintenant,” the lady of the moment. The acclaimed biographer Veronica Buckley traces the extraordinary story of Françoise’s progress from pauper child to salonnière to the compromised position of Louis’s secret wife and uncrowned Queen. An absolute ruler, Louis turned away his many other mistresses to live with Françoise only, trusting her as his closest confidante and remaining in love with her for forty years. Sparkling with the irresistible wit of contemporary chroniclers such as Madame de Sévigné, this exactingly researched biography is a pinnacle of the form. In vibrant colors, The Secret Wife of Louis XIV paints a portrait of Europe in an age of violent change, and the Sun King’s France in the process of becoming its modern self.
