Les Confidences R Ciproques Ou Anecdotes De La Soci T De Madame La Comtesse De B
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Anecdotes Sur Madame La Comtesse Du Barri
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Author : Mathieu Francois Pidanzat de Mairobert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Anecdotes Sur Madame La Comtesse Du Barri written by Mathieu Francois Pidanzat de Mairobert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Les Confidences R Ciproques Ou Anecdotes De La Soci T
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Author : Anne Claude Philippe comte de Caylus
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1779
Les Confidences R Ciproques Ou Anecdotes De La Soci T written by Anne Claude Philippe comte de Caylus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1779 with categories.
The Creation Of Anne Boleyn
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Author : Susan Bordo
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-01-02
The Creation Of Anne Boleyn written by Susan Bordo and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-02 with History categories.
Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne's life and an illuminating look at her afterlife in the popular imagination. Why is Anne so compelling? Why has she inspired such extreme reactions? What did she really even look like?! And perhaps the most provocative questions concern Anne's death more than her life. How could Henry order the execution of a once beloved wife? Drawing on scholarship and popular culture Bordo probes the complexities of one of history's most infamous relationships. In her inimitable, straight-talking style Bordo dares to confront the established histories, stepping off the well-trodden paths of Tudoriana to expertly tease out the human being behind the myths.
Letters Of Madame De S Vign To Her Daughter And Her Friends
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Author : Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1811
Letters Of Madame De S Vign To Her Daughter And Her Friends written by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1811 with categories.
I Livia
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Author : Mary Mudd
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2005-06-30
I Livia written by Mary Mudd and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A historical tradition of Roman origin represents Livia Drusilla, the third and much beloved wife of Caesar Augustus, as a conniving, Borgia-like criminal. This view of Livia maintains, that to promote the political career of her son by her former husband, Livia killed or incapacitated Augustus' descendants through his previous wife. Author Robert Graves, in his famous novel, I, Claudius, based his fictitious rendering of Livia upon this malevolent representation of her. The conceit is patently wrong, and essentially all modern scholars of Roman history reject it. But thanks to Graves' immensely entertaining book, and the British Broadcasting Corporation adaptation of it for television, the image of Livia as a devious dynastic murderess prevails in the popular mind. I, Livia: The Counterfeit Criminal aspires to correct the misconception, and present an accurate assessment of this much-maligned woman. The study's comfortably readable style is intended for general audiences. The first three chapters present a biographical sketch, which focuses on Livia's public life. Livia was accepted as an extraordinarily visible, dynamic and influential political personage, by a society and culture that maintained that women must confine their activities childrearing and other domestic pursuits. The following two chapters demonstrate the absurdity of Livia's criminal reputation, and offer explanation for its development. Three subsequent chapters seek Livia's private side - her habits, tastes, and interpersonal relationships. Livia (who suffered from colds and chronic arthritis) was an amiable soul, with a self-deprecating sense of humor. She was a loving, supportive forbearant wife and mother, an intellectual with profound political insights, an enthusiastic traveller, a connoisseur of art. Although generally patient and demure, she could also be impulsive, assertive, opinionated and, especially in later life, petulant. The final chapter examines how Livia became, and remained, a symbol of Roman imperial power. The brief epilogue describes the physical appearances of Livia and the members of her family. Also included are relevant appendices, a comprehensive bibliography, and color images of surviving wall paintings from her homes.
Critique 17 1910
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
Critique 17 1910 written by Anonymous and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with categories.
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Queen Of France
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Author : Andre Castelot
language : en
Publisher: Ishi Press
Release Date : 2009-11
Queen Of France written by Andre Castelot and has been published by Ishi Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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."
Torture Garden
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Author : Octave Mirbeau
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-29
Torture Garden written by Octave Mirbeau and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-29 with Fiction categories.
The Torture Garden is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist, and playwright Octave Mirbeau. It was first published in 1899 during the Dreyfus affair. This book is an allegory on the hypocrisy of European civilization. It presents strong criticism of bloody French and British colonialism and a ferocious attack on what Mirbeau saw as the corrupt morality of bourgeois capitalist society and the state, which he believed were based on murder.
The Wicked Queen
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Author : Chantal Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1999
The Wicked Queen written by Chantal Thomas and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Chantal Thomas presents the history of the mythification of one of the most infamous queens in all history, whose execution still fascinates us today. In The Wicked Queen, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the mythification of one of the most infamous queens in all history, whose execution still fascinates us today. Almost as soon as Marie-Antoinette, archduchess of Austria, was brought to France as the bride of Louis XVI in 1771, she was smothered in images. In a monarchy increasingly under assault, the charm and horror of her feminine body and her political power as a foreign intruder turned Marie-Antoinette into an alien other. Marie-Antoinette's mythification, argues Thomas, must be interpreted as the misogynist demonization of women's power and authority in revolutionary France.In a series of pamphlets written from the 1770s until her death in 1793, Marie-Antoinette is portrayed as a spendthrift, a libertine, an orgiastic lesbian, and a poisoner and infant murderess. In her analyses of these pamphlets, seven of which appear here in translation for the first time, Thomas reconstructs how the mounting hallucinatory and libelous discourse culminated in the inevitable destruction of what had become the counterrevolutionary symbol par excellence. The Wicked Queen exposes the elaborate process by which the myth of Marie-Antoinette emerged as a crucial element in the successful staging of the French Revolution.
The Sage And The Atheist
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Author : Voltaire
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1921
The Sage And The Atheist written by Voltaire and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1921 with Atheism categories.