Queen Of France

Author : John Hardman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300249033

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Marie-Antoinette by John Hardman Pdf

This “wonderfully gripping biography” digs beneath the famous legend to present a nuanced and revealing portrait of a serious-mined monarch (Allan Massie, Wall Street Journal). As the last Queen of France before the French Revolution, Marie-Antoinette was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, while today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. But who was she really? In this new account, John Hardman redresses the balance and sheds fresh light on her story. Hardman shows how Marie-Antoinette played a significant but misunderstood role in the crisis of the monarchy. Drawing on new sources, he describes how she refused to prioritize the aggressive foreign policy of her mother, bravely took over the helm from her faltering husband, and, when revolution broke out, worked closely with repentant radicals to give the constitutional monarchy a fighting chance. For the first time, Hardman demonstrates exactly what influence Marie-Antoinette had and when and how she exerted it. Named a 2020 Book of the Year by The Spectator

Author : Andre Castelot
Publisher : Ishi Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 4871878546

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Queen of France by Andre Castelot Pdf

This is the biography of one of the most tragic women in History. It is the story of a frivolous young girl who threw wild parties and spent a lot of her husband's money and for that reason, and that reason alone, she had her head chopped off in public. The back cover photo here shows Marie Antoinette being given her last rights by a clergyman as she was waiting before the guillotine for the executioners to cut off her head, and while a crowd of thousands watched. Her last words were one of apology to one of her executioners, when she accidentally stepped on his foot. All of the events of the Life of Marie Antoinette are brilliantly explained in this biography by Andre Castelot. The most haunting and harrowing pages of the biography are Castelot's darkly etched picture of the Queen in the culminating moments of her life. Perhaps it is not in the least a paradox that one of the most arrantly self-indulgent women should, in her adversity, provide one of the most memorable images of mother love."

Author : Evelyne Lever
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312283334

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Marie Antoinette by Evelyne Lever Pdf

A biography of the French queen explores the intrigue surrounding her life from her birth, through her unhappy marriage, her lavish life at Versailles, to the events leading up to her death by beheading during the French Revolution.

Author : Charles Duke Yonge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : France
ISBN : UVA:X001099020

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The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge Pdf

Author : Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781775411581

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Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette by Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan Pdf

Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette is an inside look into the life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, written by her First Lady in Waiting Madame Campan. Born in 1755 and married to Louis XVI of France at the age of 14, Antoinette was renowned for her fabled excesses. She was condemned for treason in 1793 at the zenith of the French Revolution, forfeiting her life to the razor-edge of a guillotine.

Author : Lisa Hilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 031614164X

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Athenais by Lisa Hilton Pdf

As lovely and charming as she was shrewd and calculating, Athenais de Montespan became the most powerful noblewoman of her day by brilliantly manipulating her forbidden role as mistress of King Louis XIV. With a lively narrative style that reads like fiction, Hilton reveals the woman behind the most dazzling days of the Sun King's reign. photos.

Author : Charles Duke Yonge
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547357391

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The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France" by Charles Duke Yonge. 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.

Author : Évelyne Lever
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : France
ISBN : 0749922761

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Marie Antoinette by Évelyne Lever Pdf

In Marie Antoinette leading French historian Evelyne Lever tells the compelling story of the last, and most infamous, Queen of France. She draws on little explored sources including Austrian and Swedish archives and the correspondence of foreign ambassadors to Paris to paint vivid portraits of the Queen, her inner circle and the lavish court life at Versailles, as well as the tragic events leading to her death. - Describes the queen's life in detail, from her birth in Vienna, through her turbulent, unhappy marriage, the intrigues of life at court, to the final bloody turmoil of the French Revolution and her beheading - Describes Marie Antoinette's relationship with the Swedish Count Axel Fersen, the grand passion of her life - Describes the seething social and political climate of prerevolutionary France and the degree to which the Queen remained wilfully out of touch with the nation's economic troubles - Based on little known diaries, letters, court documents and memoirs - Hailed by the critics as 'evocative', 'lively and informed' and 'erudite'

Author : Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Anecdotes
ISBN : HARVARD:HWIIHD

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The Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre by Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Pdf

Author : Nancy Plain
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0761410295

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Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the French Revolution by Nancy Plain Pdf

Examines the reign of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, including information about their personal lives and accomplishments and everyday life in Revolutionary France.

Author : Leonie Frieda
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780063235915

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Catherine de Medici by Leonie Frieda Pdf

The inspiration for the STARZ original series, The Serpent Queen, premiering September 11. “A beautifully written portrait of a ruthless, subtle and fearless woman fighting for survival and power in a world of gangsterish brutality, routine assassination and religious mania. . . . Frieda has brought a largely forgotten heroine-villainess and a whole sumptuously vicious era back to life. . . . This is The Godfather meets Elizabeth.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Poisoner, besotted mother, despot, necromancer, engineer of a massacre: the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen of France to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds. Based on comprehensive research including thousands of Catherine’s own letters, Frieda unfurls Catherine’s story from her troubled childhood in Florence to her tumultuous marriage to Henry II of France; her transformation of French culture to her reign as a queen who would use brutality to ensure her children’s royal birthright. Brilliantly executed, this enthralling biography goes beyond myth to paint a very human portrait of this remarkable figure.

Author : André Castelot
Publisher : New York : Harper
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : France
ISBN : UCAL:B4376414

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Queen of France by André Castelot Pdf

Author : Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : France
ISBN : UCAL:B3326768

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Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette by Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Pdf

Author : Caroline Weber
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429936477

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Queen of Fashion by Caroline Weber Pdf

In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked. Weber surveys Marie Antoinette's "Revolution in Dress," covering each phase of the queen's tumultuous life, beginning with the young girl, struggling to survive Versailles's rigid traditions of royal glamour (twelve-foot-wide hoopskirts, whalebone corsets that crushed her organs). As queen, Marie Antoinette used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power and wage war against her enemies. Gradually, however, she began to lose her hold on the French when she started to adopt "unqueenly" outfits (the provocative chemise) that, surprisingly, would be adopted by the revolutionaries who executed her. Weber's queen is sublime, human, and surprising: a sometimes courageous monarch unwilling to allow others to determine her destiny. The paradox of her tragic story, according to Weber, is that fashion—the vehicle she used to secure her triumphs—was also the means of her undoing. Weber's book is not only a stylish and original addition to Marie Antoinette scholarship, but also a moving, revelatory reinterpretation of one of history's most controversial figures.

Author : Évelyne Lever
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1322590909

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Marie Antoinette: the Last Queen of France by Évelyne Lever Pdf