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Marie Antoinette
by Hilaire Belloc  Publisher Comments Every few years the public becomes enamored with the story of Marie Antoinette (1755-93), the Austrian royal sent at the age of fourteen to France to marry the young prince who reigned as Louis XVI, and her time has come again. Hilaire Belloc's...
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Madame de Pompadour: Sex, Culture and Power
by Margaret Crosland Publisher Comments Mistress of Louis XIV and Louis XV, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, known as Madame de Pompadour, was a woman of remarkable grace, beauty, and wit....
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Louis XIV
by Ian Dunlop Publisher Comments Setting in motion events that would ultimately bring his nation to military and fiscal ruin-and his dynasty to a bloody end-Louis XIV also established France as the preeminent and, to this day, unchallenged seat of high culture in Europe. As a leader he...
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Louis XIV
by J H Shennan Publisher Comments J. H. Shennan surveys the reign of Louis XIV in three broad, interrelated sections which consider the character and outlook of the King, his domestic and foreign policy, and the personality cult of the Sun King. Shennan focuses particularly on the King's...
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The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette
by Marie-france Boyer Publisher Comments "Evocative photography and a wealth of detail make the book a visual treat."--"Interior Design" <BR>Marie Antoinette, whose marriage at fifteen made her queen of France before she was twenty, died under the blade of the guillotine in 1793. She has...
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Memoirs (Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)
by Marie Mancini Publisher Comments The memoirs of Hortense (1646–1699) and of Marie (1639–1715) Mancini, nieces of the powerful Cardinal Mazarin and members of the court of Louis XIV, represent the earliest examples in France of memoirs published by women under their own names...
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The French Revolution (Revolutions in the Modern World)
by J F Bosher Publisher Comments Bosher finds that the revolutionary struggle took place not in an atmosphere of sharp class alignment, but instead with socially mixed and transient groupings. He delves deeply into the prerevolutionary period, examining the stresses in the social and...
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Man Behind the Iron Mask
by John Noone Publisher Comments "For more than three hundred years the legend of 'the man in the iron mask' has held a place on the stage of human enquiry and debate. From the time of his incarceration during the reign of Louis XIV right through to our modern day, the awful fate of the...
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French Revolution : a Very Short Introduction (01 Edition)
by William Doyle Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (119-123) and index....
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Marie-antoinette
by Adrien Goetz Publisher Comments Everyone is fascinated by Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, by her temperament and independence, her escapades and frivolities. A great lover, rebellious and defiant, she escaped into games and lived grandly, angering her subjects, who never...
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Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
by Susan Nagel Publisher Comments The first major biography of one of France’s most mysterious women—Marie Antoinette’s only child to survive the revolution. Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention to...
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Marie-antoinette (03 Edition)
by Dena Goodman Publisher Comments Marie-Antoinette is one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in all of French history. Married to the heir to the French throne at age fourteen, Marie-Antoinette was at the center of public attention during the final tumultuous years of the...
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Cult of Nation in France P
by David A Bell Publisher Comments In a work of lucid prose and striking originality, Bell offers the first comprehensive survey of patriotism and national sentiment in early modern France, and shows how the dialectical relationship between nationalism and religion left a complex legacy...
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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
by Ruth Scurr Publisher Comments “Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read.” —Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794...
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The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon
by Colin Jones Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 613-614) and index....
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To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette
by Carolly Erickson Publisher Comments One of America's foremost writers of literary nonfiction brings us one of history's most misunderstood figures, Marie Antoinette. "An extraordinary life . . . Ms. Erickson gives us a likable, empathetic woman and broadens our understanding of her".--The...
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The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame Du Coudray
by Nina Rattne Gelbart Publisher Comments A biography of an uppity midwife commissioned by Kings Louis XV and XVI to teach obstetrics throughout France. She became a celebrity, saving millions of peasant women from the horrors of botched births....
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Envoy To the Terror Gouverneur Morris
by Melanie Rand Miller Publisher Comments An American Founding Father??'s important contributions to the French...
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
by Antonia Fraser Publisher Comments Fraser, acclaimed historian and author of "Marie Antoinette," casts new light on the splendor and the scandals of the reign of Louis XIV in this dramatic, illuminating look at the women in his life....
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The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History (Bedford Series in History & Culture)
by Lynn Averywhis Hunt Publisher Comments This brief documentary history includes 38 documents that explore the issue of rights and citizenship in Revolutionary France and the movement that helped define modern notions of civil rights....
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