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Author : Frank Hamel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Favorites, Royal
ISBN : UOM:39015028523846
Author : FRANK. HAMEL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033484342
Author : Frank Hamel
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0266396631
Excerpt from The Lady of Beauty: Agnes Sorel The love-story of Charles VII of France and Agnes Sorel deserves its place among the great passions of history. Around the beautiful heroine tradition and legend have been busy for centuries, weaving a romance containing elements of secrecy, of sacrifice, of patriotism, and, unfortunately, also of frailty and infidelity. The unknown and the mysterious often possess attractions not to be found in a straightforward tale, and if the tale concerns a charming woman who was loved by a king, and much that happened to her is left to conjecture, the interest increases by leaps and bounds. What she looked like, what she did, and what she said are fascinating points to determine, and every shred of available information assumes importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : HRH Michael of Kent
Publisher : Constable
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472119148
From HRH Princess Michael of Kent, bestselling author of The Queen of Four Kingdoms, comes the extraordinary second volume in the Anjou trilogy. Yolande, the Queen of Four Kingdoms is dead. Agnès Sorel, beautiful, innocent, twenty years old, had arrived a year earlier with the court of Yolande's son, René D'Anjou, and remained with his mother at her request, knowing how much the King of France, her dissolute son-in-law Charles VII, would need wise guidance. As a trusted confidant of Yolande, Agnès captivates everyone she meets, and in her role as a demoiselle to René's wife, Isabelle of Lorraine, Agnès finds herself firmly ensconced in the royal court. Soon though, whispers at court regarding Charles's burgeoning feelings for her begin to grow, and despite her best efforts to resist, Agnès is alarmed to discover that she too is in love. Plagued by guilt but unable to deny her feelings for the King, Agnès is forced to choose between her love for Charles, and her duty to herself . . . Praise for The Queen of Four Kingdoms: 'Meticulously researched and powerfully evoked.' Philippa Gregory 'Takes the reader to the heart of this glamorous, dangerous world, and holds them spellbound. I loved it.' Julian Fellowes 'Riveting . . . spellbinding.' Mail on Sunday 'A page-turning blend of epic battles, betrayal, seduction and heroism.' Hello
Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z254035806
Author : Tracy Adams,Christine Adams
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271086422
Kings throughout medieval and early modern Europe had extraconjugal sexual partners. Only in France, however, did the royal mistress become a quasi-institutionalized political position. This study explores the emergence and development of the position of French royal mistress through detailed portraits of nine of its most significant incumbents: Agnès Sorel, Anne de Pisseleu d’Heilly, Diane de Poitiers, Gabrielle d’Estrées, Françoise Louise de La Baume Le Blanc, Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Françoise d’Aubigné, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, and Jeanne Bécu. Beginning in the fifteenth century, key structures converged to create a space at court for the royal mistress. The first was an idea of gender already in place: that while women were legally inferior to men, they were men’s equals in competence. Because of their legal subordinacy, queens were considered to be the safest regents for their husbands, and, subsequently, the royal mistress was the surest counterpoint to the royal favorite. Second, the Renaissance was a period during which people began to experience space as theatrical. This shift to a theatrical world opened up new ways of imagining political guile, which came to be positively associated with the royal mistress. Still, the role had to be activated by an intelligent, charismatic woman associated with a king who sought women as advisors. The fascinating particulars of each case are covered in the chapters of this book. Thoroughly researched and compellingly narrated, this important study explains why the tradition of a politically powerful royal mistress materialized at the French court, but nowhere else in Europe. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the French monarchy, women and royalty, and gender studies.
Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : English fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433074863493
Author : Frank Hamel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Favorites, Royal
ISBN : NYPL:33433082414925
Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z254035909
Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 3962723749
Author : Jehanne d'. Orliac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Favorites, Royal
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019956882
Author : Alice Kemp-Welch
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547121770
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Of Six Mediæval Women; To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens" by Alice Kemp-Welch. 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 : James Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600061885
Author : James Grant
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385524095
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author : Noreen Nash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1482632691
The King's eyes went to a young woman across the room. Theextraordinary face startled him. He had never seen such perfection. He couldnot believe that she was real, she must be an apparition, a figment of hisimagination, born out of his starved existence, but she was real and he knew inthat moment that she must be his.So intense would be his love for her that he showered her with jewels,gave her castles and chateaux, and then he made her official mistress, the firstofficial Mistress of France, equal to his wife the Queen. But with it came a price,jealousy -- "Jealousy which is as cruel as the grave."This is a story of love, desire, envy, and jealousy, those qualities of thehuman heart which are timeless and universal.