Madeleine Daughter Of The King

Author : Danny B. Butler
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781475912562

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Madeleine, Daughter of the King by Danny B. Butler Pdf

Madeleine, a beautiful peasant girl, cannot resist the charms of Jean, a handsome champion of the upper class. She surrenders to her heart's desires, and their love sweetens into something amazing. But when her father is murdered, her dreams of marriage collapse before the impenetrable wall of class prejudice. With her grim new prospects restricted to life as a beggar or a whore, Madeleine grasps at the only escape she can: a new life in the New World. She signs a contract to emigrate to Québec where she'll marry a stranger and bear many children to help populate the New France colony. Madeleine's experience quickly turns bitter as she struggles to overcome the frigid Canadian winters, the constant threat of Iroquois attack, wild animals, and the soul-eroding abuse of her husband. Isolation and crushing homesickness set in. Worse, just as she comes to feel she cannot go on, the real nightmare begins: she discovers that the very man who murdered her father is living on her farm. Her struggle for survival of body and soul are set against the expansive panorama of colonial Québec, a place of awesome beauty and lethal danger. As Madeleine's extraordinary love story unfolds, real historical characters and authentic cultural details weave seamlessly into a rich tapestry of courageous pursuit of love and dreams. Can her spirit resist defeat under extreme tribulation and deprivation of emotional support?

Author : Danny B. Butler
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1475912579

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Madeleine, Daughter of the King by Danny B. Butler Pdf

Madeleine, a beautiful peasant girl, cannot resist the charms of Jean, a handsome champion of the upper class. She surrenders to her hearts desires, and their love sweetens into something amazing. But when her father is murdered, her dreams of marriage collapse before the impenetrable wall of class prejudice. With her grim new prospects restricted to life as a beggar or a whore, Madeleine grasps at the only escape she can: a new life in the New World. She signs a contract to emigrate to Qubecwhere shell marry a stranger and bear many children to help populate the New France colony. Madeleines experience quickly turns bitter as she struggles to overcome the frigid Canadian winters, the constant threat of Iroquois attack, wild animals, and the soul-eroding abuse of her husband. Isolation and crushing homesickness set in. Worse, just as she comes to feel she cannot go on, the real nightmare begins: she discovers that the very man who murdered her father is living on her farm. Her struggle for survival of body and soul are set against the expansive panorama of colonial Qubec, a place of awesome beauty and lethal danger. As Madeleines extraordinary love story unfolds, real historical characters and authentic cultural details weave seamlessly into a rich tapestry of courageous pursuit of love and dreams. Can her spirit resist defeat under extreme tribulation and deprivation of emotional support?

Author : Joy Reisinger,Elmer Courteau
Publisher : Sparta, WI : J. Reisinger
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : WISC:89062407051

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The King's Daughters by Joy Reisinger,Elmer Courteau Pdf

Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1907-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Book of Bruce; ancestors and descendants of King Robert of Scotland. Being an historical and genealogical survey of the kingly and noble Scottish house of Bruce and a full account of its principal collateral families. With special reference to the Bruces of Clackmannan, Cultmalindie, Caithness, and the Shetland Islands, and their American descendants by Lyman Horace Weeks Pdf

Author : Catherine Pettersson
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509238026

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A Daughter of the King by Catherine Pettersson Pdf

Paris, 1663. King Louis XIV sanctions a program to send destitute women to Quebec to settle his new colony. They are called, "Daughters of the King." Jeanne Denot is one of them. Of noble birth, she assumes a false identity and boards a ship to Canada, narrowly escaping death at the hands of those closest to her. But when Jeanne encounters a mysterious stranger onboard, the course of her life is altered forever. After braving turbulent seas and hardship in the New World, she decides to risk everything to reclaim what is rightfully hers.

Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Archives
ISBN : PRNC:32101076189917

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Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts Relating, to English Affairs, Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice by Great Britain. Public Record Office Pdf

Author : Rawdon Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Archives
ISBN : BSB:BSB11001949

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Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts Relating to English Affairs Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice and in Other Libraries of Northern Italy by Rawdon Brown Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Archives
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006351352

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Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, Relating to English Affairs, Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice: 1527-1533 by Great Britain. Public Record Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Archives
ISBN : MSU:31293009942263

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Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, Relating to English Affairs Existing in the Archives and Collection of Venice, and in Other Libraries of Northern Italy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000349313

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Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts Relating to English Affairs Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice, and in Other Libraries of Northern Italy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maria Hayward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351569170

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Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII by Maria Hayward Pdf

Henry VIII used his wardrobe, and that of his family and household, as a way of expressing his wealth and magnificence. This book encompasses the first detailed study of male and female dress worn at the court of Henry VIII (1509-47) and covers the dress of the king and his immediate family, the royal household and the broader court circle. Henry VIII's wardrobe is set in context by a study of Henry VII's clothes, court and household. ~ ~ As none of Henry VIII's clothes survive, evidence is drawn primarily from the great wardrobe accounts, wardrobe warrants, and inventories, and is interpreted using evidence from narrative sources, paintings, drawings and a small selection of contemporary garments, mainly from European collections. ~ ~ Key areas for consideration include the king's personal wardrobe, how Henry VIII's queens used their clothes to define their status, the textiles provided for the pattern of royal coronations, marriages and funerals and the role of the great wardrobe, wardrobe of the robes and laundry. In addition there is information on the cut and construction of garments, materials and colours, dr given as gifts, the function of livery and the hierarchy of dress within the royal household, and the network of craftsmen working for the court. The text is accompanied by full transcripts of James Worsley's wardrobe books of 1516 and 1521 which provide a brief glimpse of the king's clothes.

Author : Kate McCann
Publisher : Random House
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446437605

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Madeleine by Kate McCann Pdf

Kate McCann's personal account of the disappearance and continuing search for her daughter, revised and updated. 'The decision to publish this book has been very difficult, and taken with heavy hearts ... My reason for writing it is simple: to give an account of the truth ... Writing this memoir has entailed recording some very personal, intimate and emotional aspects of our lives. Sharing these with strangers does not come easily to me, but if I hadn't done so I would not have felt the book gave as full a picture as it is possible for me to give. As with every action we have taken over the last five years, it ultimately boils down to whether what we are doing could help us to find Madeleine. When the answer to that question is yes, or even possibly, our family can cope with anything ... Nothing is more important to us than finding our little girl.' -- Kate McCann 'A must-read' Sunday Express 'Kate's book blazes with the sheer visceral force of her love for her daughter' Daily Mail 'Deeply moving' Guardian

Author : Sue Peabody
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190233907

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Madeleine's Children by Sue Peabody Pdf

Madeleine's Children uncovers a multigenerational saga of an enslaved family in India and two islands, Réunion and Mauritius, in the eastern empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A tale of legal intrigue, it reveals the lives and secret relationships between slaves and free people that have remained obscure for two centuries. As a child, Madeleine was pawned by her impoverished family and became the slave of a French woman in Bengal. She accompanied her mistress to France as a teenager, but she did not challenge her enslavement there on the basis of France's Free Soil principle, a consideration that did not come to light until future lawyers investigated her story. In France, a new master and mistress purchased her, despite laws prohibiting the sale of slaves within the kingdom. The couple transported Madeleine across the ocean to their plantation in the Indian Ocean colonies, where she eventually gave birth to three children: Maurice, Constance, and Furcy. One died a slave and two eventually became free, but under very different circumstances. On 21 November 1817, Furcy exited the gates of his master's mansion and declared himself a free man. The lawsuit waged by Furcy to challenge his wrongful enslavement ultimately brought him before the Royal Court of Paris, despite the extreme measures that his putative master, Joseph Lory, deployed to retain him as his slave. A meticulous work of archival detection, Madeleine's Children investigates the cunning, clandestine, and brutal strategies that masters devised to keep slaves under their control-and paints a vivid picture of the unique and evolving meanings of slavery and freedom in the Indian Ocean world.

Author : Madeline Miller
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316556330

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Circe by Madeline Miller Pdf

This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. #1 New York Times Bestseller -- named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor, Refinery 29, Buzzfeed, Paste, Audible, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Thrillist, NYPL, Self, Real Simple, Goodreads, Boston Globe, Electric Literature, BookPage, the Guardian, Book Riot, Seattle Times, and Business Insider.

Author : Edgcumbe Staley
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547227045

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King René d'Anjou and His Seven Queens by Edgcumbe Staley Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "King René d'Anjou and His Seven Queens" by Edgcumbe Staley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.