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Women Courtesans And Queens
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Author : Raffaele Crispino
language : en
Publisher: Crispino Raffaele
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Women Courtesans And Queens written by Raffaele Crispino and has been published by Crispino Raffaele this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Art categories.
Ironic, satirical. Learn the History cheerfully. From Marie Antoinette to Greta Garbo. By Messalina to Lucrezia Borgia. All women who have had a life tormented, fascinating and sometimes tragic. Anita Garibaldi will speak of her love for Joseph, who will take her to follow him to Italy. Cleopatra analyze her life and the need to be wicked and cruel enough to push it to kill her sister. The Countess of Castiglione explain the reasons that led it to be a courtesan as the Marquise de Pompadour, will report its ability to remain still the favorite of the king although there were young women decided to take her place. Mona Lisa admire her composure and her way of being a woman in the presence of Leonardo while painting her portrait. Helen of Troy tells us that escape with Paris to Troy was the only wise thing she has done in her life and to have no remorse for the thousands of dead because of her. The reports, reportage interviews with these famous women of every age lead us to expand in every time with the belief that if you want to explain this one must always look to the past
Queens And Courtesans
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Author : National Archives (EDT)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Queens And Courtesans written by National Archives (EDT) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Great Britain categories.
Illustrated with original portraits, letters and documents from The National Archives, this absorbing book reveals the successes and failures of these most remarkable women.
Queen Of The Courtesans
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Author : Barbara White
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2014-06-02
Queen Of The Courtesans written by Barbara White and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Fanny Murray was an incomparable Georgian beauty and the most desired courtesan of the 1750s. The daughter of an impoverished musician from Bath, she took London society by storm, not only as the most prized 'purchaseable beauty' of her day, but also as a fashion icon and muse to poets, writers and artists. She counted princes, aristocrats and politicians among her friends and lovers, but relished the company of rogues, fraudsters and ne'er-do-wells. Barbara White presents evidence to suggest that Fanny Murray participated spiritedly in the sexual antics of the notorious 'Monks of Medmenham', the most infamous of the Hell-fire Clubs. After she retired from prostitution, Fanny Murray reinvented herself, entering a pragmatic marriage with the Scottish actor David Ross. Surprisingly, her virtues as a devoted and faithful wife became almost proverbial. Even so, Murray could not escape her disreputable past. In 1763, a scurrilous poem dedicated to her caused a national scandal that ended in the infamous trial of the radical politician John Wilkes for obscene libel. Barbara White's portrait of Fanny Murray takes readers from the brothels of Covent Garden to sex romps at Medmenham Abbey, from refined drawing rooms in London to marital respectability in Edinburgh. This is an illuminating contribution to the scholarly understanding and popular appreciation of a complex and intriguing period of British history. Fanny Murray's triumph – against almost insuperable odds – is a remarkable story, as rich in the telling as it is enthralling.
The Courtesan
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Author : Susan Carroll
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2005-07-26
The Courtesan written by Susan Carroll and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-26 with Fiction categories.
Skilled in passion, artful in deception, and driven by betrayal, she is the glittering center of the royal court–but the most desired woman of Renaissance France will draw the wrath of a dangerous adversary. Paris, 1575. The consort of some of Europe’s most influential men, Gabrielle Cheney is determined to secure her future by winning the heart of Henry, the Huguenot king of Navarre. As his mistress, Gabrielle hopes she might one day become the power behind the French throne. But her plans are jeopardized by Captain Nicolas Rémy, a devoted warrior whose love Gabrielle desires–and fears–above all. She will also incur the malevolence of the Dark Queen, Catherine de’ Medici, whose spies and witch-hunters are legion, and who will summon the black arts to maintain her authority. With the lives of those she loves in peril, Gabrielle must rebel against her queen to fulfill a glorious destiny she has sacrificed everything to gain. Alive with vivid period detail and characters as vibrant as they are memorable, The Courtesan is a sweeping historical tale of dangerous intrigues, deep treachery, and one woman’s unshakable resolve to honor her heart.
A History Of Women S Lives On The Isle Of Wight
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Author : Daisy Plant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
A History Of Women S Lives On The Isle Of Wight written by Daisy Plant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Women categories.
Ask somebody to give you the name of a woman from history and they’ll probably give you a queen’s. If not royalty, it’ll be a famous courtesan, a noblewoman, a rogue. Some women manage to be all four things at once.Take a look outside, however, and you’ll see a diverse range of women, all with their own set of experiences, preferences, feelings and thoughts - their own stories. And every one of these women will have just one thing in common; they are completely and utterly ordinary.Ordinary women don’t make it into history books - until now.A History of Women's Lives of the Isle of Wight focuses in on women who were living on the Island between 1850 and 1950. These ladies were not queens. They weren’t courtesans, or rogues, or royalty. They were just like the women you see every single day. They thought their own thoughts; they felt their own feelings; and they have been lost to time. Because a woman must be more than ordinary to be remembered.Except what is ordinary? Is it a single mother nursing her child through a deadly disease? Is it giving up on your own dreams to take on the role of mother when yours passes on? Is it becoming one of the greatest artists of the modern era, only to wind up with none of your paintings on display in any of the most prestigious museums?We’re not all queens. But in being ordinary, maybe we’re really extraordinary.
Scarlet Women
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Author : Ian Graham
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2016-01-26
Scarlet Women written by Ian Graham and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-26 with History categories.
In 1965, an impoverished elderly woman was found dead in Nice, France. Her death marked the end of an era; she was the last of the great courtesans. Known as La Belle Otero, she was a volcanic Spanish beauty whose patrons included Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia. She accumulated an enormous fortune, but gambled it all away. Scarlet Women tells her story and many more, including: Marie Duplessis, who inspired characters by both Dumas and Verdi; Clara Ward, a rare American courtesan who hunted for a European aristocrat, but having married a Belgian prince, ran away with a gypsy violinist; Ninon de L'Enclos, who was offered 50,000 crowns by Cardinal Richelieu for one night. Money left in her will paid for Voltaire's education. Courtesans were an elite group of talented, professional mistresses. The most successful became wealthy and famous in their own right. While they led charmed lives, they occupied a curious position: they enjoyed freedom and political power unknown to most women, but they were ostracised by polite society. From the hetaerae of ancient Greece to the cortigiani onesti of 16th century Venice, the oiran of Edo-period Japan to the demimondaines of 19th century France, this captivating book--perfect for readers of A Treasury of Royal Scandals--uncovers the rich, colorful lives of these women who dared to pursue fortunes outside their societies' norms.
Queen And The Courtesan
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Author : Freda Lightfoot
language : en
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Release Date : 2012-05-01
Queen And The Courtesan written by Freda Lightfoot and has been published by Severn House Publishers Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with Fiction categories.
A brand-new historical novel from a well-loved storyteller - Henriette d'Entragues isn't satisfied with simply being the mistress of Henry IV of France; she wants a crown too. Despite his promises to marry her, the King is obliged by political necessity to ally himself with a rich Italian princess. But Henriette isn't one for giving up easily. All she has to do to achieve her ambition is to give Henry a son, and then do whatever it takes to set him on the throne . . .
Courtesans
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Author : Katie Hickman
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2004-11-02
Courtesans written by Katie Hickman and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
During the course of the nineteenth century, a small group of women rose from impoverished obscurity to positions of great power, independence, and wealth. In doing so they took control of their lives -- and those of other people -- and made the world do their will. Extremely accomplished, well-educated, and unusually literate, courtesans exerted an incredible influence as leaders of society. They were not received at court, but inhabited their own parallel world -- the demimonde -- complete with its own hierarchies, etiquette, and protocol. They were queens of fashion, linguists, musicians, accomplished at political intrigue, and, of course, possessors of great erotic gifts. Even to be seen in public with one of the great courtesans was a much-envied achievement.
The Courtesans
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Author : Joanna Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 2000
The Courtesans written by Joanna Richardson and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
In Second Empire Paris there were a dozen courtesans who were generally known as la garde: they were the queens of their profession, the women whom visiting princes thought it essential to see. They were the women who encrusted their bathroom taps with jewels, built palaces in the Champs-Elysées, fought duels in the Bois de Boulogne. They scandalised society and influenced the Press and politics. They also ensnared the husbands and lovers of the most beautiful women in Paris. Joanna Richardson presents her own version of la garde ¿ twelve of the most distinguished courtesans in Paris during their golden age. From the calculating Cora Pearl to the hideous la Païva, who rose from the Moscow ghetto to indecent wealth and fame, and the admirable Madame Sabatier made famous by Baudelaire, to La Castiglione sent by Cavour to seduce Napoleon III, la garde people these pages with all the colour, intrigue, scandal and vivacity with which they peopled the demi-monde of 19th century Paris.
Scarlet Women
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Author : Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine Ian Graham
language : en
Publisher: Thistle Publishing
Release Date : 2015-05-06
Scarlet Women written by Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine Ian Graham and has been published by Thistle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-06 with categories.
Scarlet Women tells the stories of the most notorious courtesans, concubines and royal mistresses. Its contents range from the ancient world to the present day, and from Europe and America to the Far East. The extraordinary women featured in the book include: Cora Pearl, who served herself naked on a platter at her legendary parties; Harriette Wilson, who blackmailed her clients; Clara Ward, an American woman who married a Belgian prince and then ran away with a gypsy violinist; Klondike Kate, queen of the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush; Veronica Franco, the leading sixteenth century Venetian courtesan; Mesdames de Pompadour and du Barry, two of Louis XV's many mistresses; Nell Gwyn, the saucy orange-seller who captivated King Charles II; Marie Walewska, Napoleon Bonaparte's reluctant mistress; Cixi, a concubine who rose from obscurity to rule China; La Belle Otero, the last of the great European courtesans."