Book Description
Follows a woman whose function it once was to read books aloud to Marie Antoinette, as she recounts her memories of living at Versailles during the final days of the French revolution.
Author : Chantal Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 147670645X
Follows a woman whose function it once was to read books aloud to Marie Antoinette, as she recounts her memories of living at Versailles during the final days of the French revolution.
Author : Dena Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1136704965
Marie-Antoinette is one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in all of French history. This volume explores the many struggles by various individuals and groups to put right Marie's identity, and it simultaneously links these struggles to larger destabilizations in social, political and gender systems in France. Looking at how Marie was represented in politics, art, literature and journalism, the contributors to this volume reveal how crucial political and cultural contexts were enacted "on the body of the queen" and on the complex identity of Marie. Taken together, these essays suggest that it is precisely because she came to represent the contradictions in the social, political and gender systems of her era, that Marie remains such an important historical figure.
Author : Chantal Thomas
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590517032
Two young princesses navigate the court intrigues of 18th-century France and Spain in this stunning historical fiction novel based on a true story. “Vivid, engrossing . . . one of the most fascinating historical narratives I’ve ever read.” —Diana Gabaldon, author of Outlander Philippe d’Orléans, the regent of France, has a gangrenous heart—the result of a life of debauchery, alcohol, power, and flattery. One morning in 1721, he decides to marry eleven-year-old Louis XV to the daughter of Philippe V of Spain, who is only four. Orléans hopes this will tie his kingdom to Spain. But were Louis to die without begetting an heir—the likeliness of which is greatly increased by having a child bride—Orléans himself would finally be king. Orléans tosses his own daughter into the bargain, the twelve-year-old Mlle de Montpensier, who will marry the Prince of Asturias, the heir to the Spanish throne. The Spanish court enthusiastically agrees and arrangements are made. The two nations trade their princesses in a grand ceremony in 1722, making bonds that should end the historical conflict. Nothing turns out as expected.
Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 2002-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1400030161
The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. Philip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.
Author : Chantal Thomas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
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.
Author : Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618216208
A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War internment.
Author : Gita Trelease
Publisher : Macmillan Children's Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1760785105
Paris in 1789 is a labyrinth of twisted streets, filled with beggars, thieves, revolutionaries – and magicians . . . When smallpox kills her parents, seventeen-year-old Camille is left to provide for her frail sister and her volatile brother. In desperation, she survives by using the petty magic she learnt from her mother. But when her brother disappears Camille decides to pursue a richer, more dangerous mark: the glittering court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Using dark magic Camille transforms herself into the ‘Baroness de la Fontaine‘ and presents herself at the court of Versaille, where she soon finds herself swept up in a dizzying life of riches, finery and suitors. But Camille’s resentment of the rich is at odds with the allure of their glamour and excess, and she soon discovers that she’s not the only one leading a double life . . . Enchantée is a compelling historical fantasy and is Gita Trelease's debut novel.
Author : Jennifer Orkin Lewis
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1452166803
Discover twenty true stories of royal intrigue, power, and passion, brought to life through the gorgeous illustrations of Jennifer Orkin Lewis and the witty words of Shweta Jha. From Cleopatra to Empress Wu Zetian, Marie Antoinette to Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, these extraordinary female monarchs from all over the world have captured imaginations throughout the ages. With a deluxe foil-spangled two-piece case, this elegant and diverse celebration of women in charge makes the perfect Mother's Day or girlfriend go-to gift for the queen in our lives.
Author : Tom Stempel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
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Author : Fuat M. Andic
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439214695
Farewell Homeland begins in 1492, during the Sephardic Diaspora, and follows the Ben Naum family as they begin a generational, centuries-long trek in search of tolerance and freedom.