Moi And Marie Antoinette

Author : Lynn Cullen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1582349584
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moi and Marie Antoinette written by Lynn Cullen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sebastien relates the life of Marie Antoinette as she goes from being a teenager devoted to him, her pug dog, to becoming the Queen of France and mother to two children.

Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400033284
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marie Antoinette written by Antonia Fraser and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2002-11-12 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France's iconic queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake," was alternately revered and reviled during her lifetime. For centuries since, she has been the object of debate, speculation, and the fascination so often accorded illustrious figures in history. Married in mere girlhood, this essentially lighthearted child was thrust onto the royal stage and commanded by circumstance to play a significant role in European history. Antonia Fraser's lavish and engaging portrait excites compassion and regard for all aspects of the queen, immersing the reader not only in the coming-of-age of a graceful woman, but in the culture of an unparalleled time and place.

Author : Juliet Grey
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 034552389X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow written by Juliet Grey and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating novel of rich spectacle and royal scandal, Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow spans fifteen years in the fateful reign of Marie Antoinette, France’s most legendary and notorious queen. Paris, 1774. At the tender age of eighteen, Marie Antoinette ascends to the French throne alongside her husband, Louis XVI. But behind the extravagance of the young queen’s elaborate silk gowns and dizzyingly high coiffures, she harbors deeper fears for her future and that of the Bourbon dynasty. From the early growing pains of marriage to the joy of conceiving a child, from her passion for Swedish military attaché Axel von Fersen to the devastating Affair of the Diamond Necklace, Marie Antoinette tries to rise above the gossip and rivalries that encircle her. But as revolution blossoms in America, a much larger threat looms beyond the gilded gates of Versailles—one that could sweep away the French monarchy forever.

Author : Frederick II
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691258910
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frederick the Great's Philosophical Writings written by Frederick II and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first modern English edition of diverse Enlightenment-era writings by Prussian monarch Frederick the Great Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific writer of philosophical discourses, poems, epics, satires, and more, while maintaining extensive correspondence with prominent intellectuals, Voltaire among them. This edition of selected writings, the first to make a wide range of Frederick’s most important ideas available to a modern English readership, moves beyond traditional attempts to see his work only in light of his political aims. In these pages, we can finally appreciate Frederick’s influential contributions to the European Enlightenment—and his unusual role as a monarch who was also a published author. In addition to Frederick’s major opus, the Anti-Machiavel, the works presented here include essays, prefaces, reviews, and dialogues. The subjects discussed run the gamut from ethics to religion to political theory. Accompanied by critical annotations, the texts show that we can understand Frederick’s views of kingship and the state only if we engage with a broad spectrum of his thought, including his attitudes toward morality and self-love. By contextualizing his arguments and impact on Enlightenment beliefs, this volume considers how we can reconcile Frederick’s innovative public musings with his absolutist rule. Avi Lifschitz provides a robust and detailed introduction that discusses Frederick’s life and work against the backdrop of eighteenth-century history and politics. With its unparalleled scope and cross-disciplinary appeal, Frederick the Great’s Philosophical Writings firmly establishes one monarch’s multifaceted relevance for generations of readers and scholars to come.

Author : Katie Daynes
Publisher : Usborne Books
ISBN 13 : 9780794510497
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marie Antoinette written by Katie Daynes and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Antoinette's enchanting Austrian childhood is no prepartion for palace politics in France. When her mother sends her to marry France's future king, she's plunged into a baffling world, far from home. With gossip running rife and revolution in the air, she'll need more than grace and dignity to survive.

Author : Karen Wheeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957106659
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marie Antoinette Diet written by Karen Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sally Christie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501103040
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enemies of Versailles written by Sally Christie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final installment of Sally Christie’s “tantalizing” (New York Daily News) Mistresses of Versailles trilogy, Jeanne Becu, a woman of astounding beauty but humble birth, works her way from the grimy back streets of Paris to the palace of Versailles, where the aging King Louis XV has become a jaded and bitter old philanderer. Jeanne bursts into his life and, as the Comtesse du Barry, quickly becomes his official mistress. “That beastly bourgeois Pompadour was one thing; a common prostitute is quite another kettle of fish.” After decades of suffering the King's endless stream of Royal Favorites, the princesses of the Court have reached a breaking point. Horrified that he would bring the lowborn Comtesse du Barry into the hallowed halls of Versailles, Louis XV’s daughters, led by the indomitable Madame Adelaide, vow eternal enmity and enlist the dauphine Marie Antoinette in their fight against the new mistress. But as tensions rise and the French Revolution draws closer, a prostitute in the palace soon becomes the least of the nobility’s concerns. Told in Christie’s witty and engaging style, the final book in The Mistresses of Versailles trilogy will delight and entrance fans as it once again brings to life the sumptuous and cruel world of eighteenth century Versailles, and France as it approaches irrevocable change.

Author : David Adjmi
Publisher : Samuel French, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780573702624
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marie Antoinette written by David Adjmi and published by Samuel French, Incorporated. This book was released on 2014 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theatrical and stylistic retelling of the life and final days of Marie Antoinette.

Author : Jim Chevallier
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781448667840
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book August Zang and the French Croissant written by Jim Chevallier and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2009 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yes an Austrian brought the croissant to France. But it wasn't Marie-Antoinette. Half a century after her time, an Austrian officer opened a bakery in Paris which became the place to go. The Boulangerie Viennoise introduced Viennese techniques which would one day lead to the baguette, and was known for its Viennese loaves and its kipfel - small rolls in the shape of a crescent. Or, as the French say, croissant. August Zang didn't stay long - having brought "viennoiserie" to France, he went back to Vienna to found the newspaper 'Die Presse', and with it, the modern Austrian daily press. This work discusses the history of the kipfel, why two common tales about the croissant are myths, how the Boulangerie was started and its influence on French baking, and August Zang's subsequent career. This second edition includes a closer look at the rue de Richelieu in the nineteenth century and at Viennese baked goods in general, an expanded analysis of Zang's innovations and influence, a glance at the changes in bakery decor and revised overviews of the baguette and the changes in the croissant, as well as additional mentions of Zang in the American press.

Author : Lynn Cullen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476702918
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Poe written by Lynn Cullen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.