Romance Of Monaco Its Rulers
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The Romance Of Monaco And Its Rulers
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Author : Ethel Colburn Mayne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
The Romance Of Monaco And Its Rulers written by Ethel Colburn Mayne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Monaco categories.
Romance Of Monaco Its Rulers
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Author : Ethel Colburn D. 1941 Mayne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-08-27
Romance Of Monaco Its Rulers written by Ethel Colburn D. 1941 Mayne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-27 with History categories.
The Romance Of Monaco And Its Rulers Classic Reprint
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Author : Ethel Colburn Mayne
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2016-08-31
The Romance Of Monaco And Its Rulers Classic Reprint written by Ethel Colburn Mayne and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-31 with History categories.
Excerpt from The Romance of Monaco and Its Rulers N the minds of many who visit Monaco, there is probably a hazy idea that it is very old, which is the appropriately hazy way Of saying that its history can be traced to very remote ages. No graver mood belongs to the place, as Europe now knows it; people go there for fun, and most of them - despite the dark tales that each has heard and each loves to recount - Teome back With a pleasant consciousness of having, in one way or another, had what they went for. Bilt the fun over, and its memory still alive, some of the pilgrims will, it is hoped, lay friendly hands upon this book. In it they will find their faith in Monaco's antiquity confirmed - perhaps only too fully, and doubtless, as I conjecture, a little sur prisingly. 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.
Romance Of Monaco And Its Rulers
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Author : J. Girou
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
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The Romance Of Monaco And Its Rulers With Twenty Seven Illustrations Including A Photogravure Plate
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Author : Ethel Colburn Mayne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
The Romance Of Monaco And Its Rulers With Twenty Seven Illustrations Including A Photogravure Plate written by Ethel Colburn Mayne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with categories.
The Publishers Weekly
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1911
The Publishers Weekly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with American literature categories.
Making Monte Carlo
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Author : Mark Braude
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-04-12
Making Monte Carlo written by Mark Braude 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 2016-04-12 with History categories.
“A brisk historical tour of the marketing and selling of the small principality of Monaco and its famous city…A well-researched, dramatic rags-to-riches urban tale” (Kirkus Reviews) of Monte Carlo’s rise from small principality to prosperous resort town of the 1920s. Monte Carlo has long been known as a dazzling playground for the rich and famous. The “vivid, entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) Making Monte Carlo traces a narrative history of the world’s first modern casino-resort, from the legalization of gambling in Monaco in 1855—passed as a desperate bid to stave off bankruptcy—through the resort’s improbable emergence as a glamorous gambling destination of to its decline in the wake of WWI and its subsequent reinvention in the 1920s until the inaugural Monaco Grand Prix in 1929, on the eve of the Wall Street crash that would largely spell the end of the freewheeling era. Along the way, we encounter a colorful cast of characters, including Francois Blanc (a professional gambler and cheat and eventual founder of Monte Carlo); Basil Zaharoff (notorious munitions dealer and probable secret owner of the casino for some years in the 1920s); Elsa Maxwell (hired as the casino’s publicist in the late 1920s); Réné Léon (a visionary Jewish businessman with murky origins); Serge Diaghilev, Jean Cocteau, Coco Chanel, Pablo Picasso, and other satellite members of the Ballet Russes dance company; as well as Gerald and Sara Murphy and other American expats, such as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. “An engrossing examination of how politics, personality, and publicity coalesced to transform a sleepy village into a luxurious playground populated with casinos and beautiful people” (Publishers Weekly), Making Monte Carlo is a classic rags-to-riches tale set in the most scenic of European settings.
The Grimaldis Of Monaco
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Author : Anne Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-09-01
The Grimaldis Of Monaco written by Anne Edwards and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Grimaldis of Monaco tells in full the remarkable history of the world’s oldest reigning dynasty. For nearly eight hundred years, from the elegant Genoese Rainier I to the current Prince Albert II, the Grimaldis—“an ambitious, hot-blooded, unscrupulous race, swift to revenge and furious in battle”—have ruled Monaco. Against all odds, they have proved themselves masterful survivors, still in possession of their lands and titles despite the upheavals of the French Revolution and the First and Second World Wars, when royal heads rolled and most small countries met their demise. With insufficient weaponry and military forces far too small to go into combat against their more powerful neighbors, France and Italy, the Grimaldis endured by their cunning and their shrewd choice of brides—rich women and high connections in the most influential courts of Europe, and often, strong sexual appetites. The French nobleman’s daughter who married Louis I later became the mistress of France Louis XIV. Her son, Antoine I was wed to an aristocratic wife who outdid her mother-in-law by having so many lovers her husband took to hanging them in effigy. The seafaring adventurer Prince Albert I was unfortunate enough to have two wives, one British, one American, who ran off with their lovers. His second wife, the American Alice Heine, a fabulously rich heiress from New Orleans and the widowed Duchesse de Richelieu, was the model for Proust’s Princess of Luxembourg. Heine used her own wealth to bring grandeur, culture, and sophistication to the palatial center of Monte Carlo; and with the introduction of gambling, an internationally celebrated resort was born, initially for the privileged few and later for raffish café society, The last section of the book is devoted to the most recent generations of the Grimaldis. Here, a new image of Rainier III emerges as both man and monarch, beginning with his blighted childhood as the son of divorced parents and of a mother scorned as illegitimate. And preceding the drama of his marriage to Grace Kelly, there is an account of his intense love affair with a French film start and reasons behind his sister’s lifelong malice and envy of him. The final note is necessarily tragic, detailing in full the deaths of both Princess Grace and Princess Caroline’s husband in sudden and shocking accidents
The Untold History Of The Kings And Queens Of Europe
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Author : Brenda Ralph Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2016-07-15
The Untold History Of The Kings And Queens Of Europe written by Brenda Ralph Lewis and has been published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
To many, Europe has been the pinnacle of world sophistication and culture. Yet beneath the power, the glamor, and the splendor there has also been scandal, mystery and skullduggery. Kings & Queens of Europe: A Dark History peels away the glory and the glitz to take a wry look at what has really gone on in the corridors, bedrooms and dungeons of European power from the fourteenth century up to the present day.
The New International Encyclopaedia
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Author : Frank Moore Colby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
The New International Encyclopaedia written by Frank Moore Colby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.