Download or read book About Catherine De Medici Sur Catherine De M dicis And Gambara Vol 3 Classic Reprint written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from About Catherine De Medici (Sur Catherine De Médicis) And Gambara, Vol. 3 If, however, we turn from this somewhat academic point, and do not dwell very much on the occult and magical sides of the matter, interesting as they are, we shall be brought at once face to face with the question, Is the handling of this book the right and proper one for an historical novel? Can we in virtue of it rank Balzac (this is the test which he would himself, beyond all question, have accepted) a long way above Dumas and near Scott? 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.
Download or read book About Catherine de Medici written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Library of the University of California Los Angeles Classic Reprint written by Honoré De Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catherine De' Medici When one considers the amazing number of volumes published with the view of fixing the point at which Hannibal crossed the Alps, and that no one can say to-day whether he went, according to Whitaker and Rivaz, by way of Lyon, Geneva, the Saint-Bernard, and the valley of Aosta; or, according to Letronne, Follard, Saint-Simon, and Fortia d'Urban, by the Isere, Grenoble, Saint-Bonnet, Mont Genevre, Fenestrelle, and the Suza pass; or, according to Larauza, by Mont Cenis and Suza; or, according to Strabo, Polybius, and De Luc, by way of the Rhone, Vienne, Yennes, and the Mont du Chat; or, according to the opinion of some judicious persons, by way of Genoa, La Bochetta, and La Scrivia, which opinion I share, and which Napoleon adopted, - to say nothing of the vinegar with which other scholars have sprinkled the Alpine cliffs, - one can but be astonished, monsieur le marquis, to see modern history so neglected that its most important points are obscure and that names which should be held in veneration are still burdened with most odious calumnies. 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.
Download or read book The Girlhood of Catherine De Medici written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catherine De Medicis Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Paul Van Dyke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catherine De Medicis, Vol. 1 These is around the popular conception of Catherine de Medicis a sort of aura of wickedness so visible that most readers open a book about her with the unspoken question, "Was she as bad as they say?" and expect the writer will soon betray himself either as an apologete or a prosecutor. The writer of this book hopes this expectation will be disappointed. He is far from any desire to defend the character of Catherine de Medicis and equally far from any interest in attacking it. He only desires to show her as she was, and he leaves the reader to decide about the wickedness. This does not mean that he considers it the duty of a historian to be unconcerned about right and wrong or to assume that they are entirely shifting and relative. Such an attempt at artificial demoralization is never entirely successful, and, in a writer of biography, it can result only in a picture affected by a bias of which the reader has no warning. But he has tried meticulously never to let his sympathies interfere with the full and balanced presentation of fact. He wants to draw a portrait, not to pronounce a judgment. There are few great personages of the last four hundred years so many of whose written and spoken words have survived as Catherine de Medicis; and in addition there is a very large number of opinions about her conduct or character recorded by people who knew her. It is on these that this book is based. 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.
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Download or read book Catherine de Medici written by Mary Hollingsworth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of Catherine de’ Medici—the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe—as seen through her often controversial role in religion and the arts. During an age of heightened religious conflict, Catherine de' Medici lived her life at the center of sixteenth-century European and French politics. Daughter of Lorenzo II, the Medici ruler of Florence—and then wedded to a French prince by papal decree at the age of fourteen—Catherine first became queen consort of France and then mother to three French kings (Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III) who reigned in an era of almost continuous civil and religious strife. A lavish promoter of the arts, Catherine patronized poets, painters, and sculptors; lavished ruinous sums on the building and embellishment of monuments and palaces; and masterminded spectacular entertainments and tournaments that prefigure the splendor and ritual of the court of Versailles. Catherine maintained eighty ladies-in-waiting at court; it was rumored she used these women as bait to seduce courtiers for her political ends. Her admiration for the seer Nostradamus fueled claims of her love for the occult and the dark arts. Posterity has condemned her as the epitome of the scheming royal matriarch, her reputation tainted forever by her role in instigating the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of Protestants in 1572. Catherine de’ Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen is Mary Hollingsworth's evocative, authoritative biography of the most extraordiary woman of the sixteenth-century.
Download or read book The Later Years of Catherine De Medici Classic Reprint written by Edith Helen Sichel and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Later Years of Catherine De' Medici The second half of my study of Catherine de' Medici hardly seems to need any preface, and yet I should like to take the opportunity of once again defining the scope of my work. I can make no claim to figure as an expert historian. My aim has been no more than to paint portraits - to draw the central figure of Catherine as I see her, with such other persons in the drama as were interwoven with her destiny, standing out against a multi-coloured background and throwing strong shadows upon it. I have detected no error in accepted dates; I have made no discovery of an actual fact. Yet the research into character may shed fresh light upon old events, may account for the unaccountable, and harmonize what is discordant. And the comments of contemporaries when read for themselves, apart from any larger historical purpose, acquire a new vitality. They sharpen our perception of detail, and give us that more personal aspect of the strange things that happen which often explains them. It is from this point of view alone that I venture to reproduce such famous catastrophes as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, or the murder of Henri, Due de Guise. Charity, which is understanding, is as needful for sound judgment of bygone generations as it is for our judgment of our neighbours. When men appear to us abnormally wicked, it is because we have not grasped closely enough the current standard of their morality. They only show black or white according as they rise or fall below the average line, and if they do not chance to possess some virtue upon which we pride ourselves, we may feel sure that they are rich in some other of which our age knows nothing. Certain definable influences there were which went to make the gulf between them and us. That religion affords a capacious cloak for the human passions and foibles which would have existed without it, although under some other shelter, is a truth established since Churches began. 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.
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Download or read book Catherine De Medicis Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Paul Van Dyke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catherine De Medicis, Vol. 2 But the King was unable to wage war quickly. The Huguenots were the first in the field and the royal army could not assemble rapidly. Six regiments Of regular troops of the line were quickly brought together, but the gen darmes, or regular cavalry, lived in their houses, took care of their own arms and horses and could not be mustered at a moment's notice. It was difficult for the King to raise. 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.
Download or read book Catherine De Medici and the French Reformation Classic Reprint written by Edith Sichel and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catherine De' Medici and the French Reformation The greater functions of history, the discovery of new documents, the revelation of new facts, demand great scholars. To the achievement of such ends a study like the present one - a study of persons, not an ordered narration of events - makes no kind of pretension. But history has its bye-paths and its lesser purposes, and one of the chief tasks of the minor historian is to read the books that no one has leisure for. It is customary to question the use of writing fresh works when so many have already been written. But we too frequently forget how many of these books are no books. There are unknown contemporary records, buried either in remote publications or between the dusty covers of inconceivably tedious tomes, which have to be gone through for the sake of the solitary paragraph, perhaps the solitary sentence, that may serve the occasion in view. And there are always the volumes, old and modern, which are compiled, not written, out of which a book might be evoked. To gather together some such old fragments, to prevent waste of truth, to rescue the few vivid facts and impressions embedded in ruinous remains - still more, if possible, to throw some light upon the characters of an age, and thus, indirectly, upon its events - these seem aims not altogether incompatible with usefulness, or with the modest means at an ordinary chronicler's disposal. And if the following pages, which disclaim any larger ambition, should succeed in lending vitality to a single personage, a single occurrence of the past, they will not have been written in vain. My thanks are due to Messrs. Longman and to the editor of the Edinburgh Review for permitting me to reproduce parts of an article on "The Women of the Renaissance," published in that periodical last April. 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.
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Download or read book Catherine De Medici written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words "Madame la Royne-mere" had been lately added. The gilding was fresh. This additionshowed the recent changes produced by the sudden and violent death of Henri II., whichoverturned many fortunes at court and began that of the Guises.The back-shop opened on the river. In this room usually sat the respectable proprietor himselfand Mademoiselle Lecamus. In those days the wife of a man who was not noble had no right to thetitle of dame, "madame"; but the wives of the burghers of Paris were allowed to use that of"mademoiselle," in virtue of privileges granted and confirmed to their husbands by the several kingsto whom they had done service. Between this back-shop and the main shop was the well of acorkscrew-staircase which gave access to the upper story, where were the great ware-room and thedwelling-rooms of the old couple, and the garrets lighted by skylights, where slept the children, theservant-woman, the apprentices, and the clerks.This crowding of families, servants, and apprentices, the little space which each took up in thebuilding where the apprentices all slept in one large chamber under the roof, explains the enormouspopulation of Paris then agglomerated on one-tenth of the surface of the present city; also the queerdetails of private life in the middle ages; also, the contrivances of love which, with all due deferenceto historians, are found only in the pages of the romance-writers, without whom they would be lostto the world. At this period very great seigneurs, such, for instance, as Admiral de Coligny, occupiedthree rooms, and their suites lived at some neighboring inn. There were not, in those days, morethan fifty private mansions in Paris, and those were fifty palaces belonging to sovereign princes, orto great vassals, whose way of living was superior to that of the greatest German rulers, such as theDuke of Bavaria and the Elector of Saxony.
Download or read book The Life of Marie de Medicis Vol 3 written by Julia Pardoe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Marie De Medicis, Vol. 3: Queen of France, Consort of Henri IV, and Regent of the Kingdom Under Louis XIII Favourite - Le Roi Luynes - Domestic Dissensions - The Fa vourite is Threatened with Disgrace - Cruelty of Louis XIII. 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.
Download or read book Catherine De Medicis Or the Rival Faiths Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catherine De Medicis, or the Rival Faiths IT was towards the close of the unhappy reign of Francis the Second of France, that Catherine de Medicis' long - smothered ambition began to emit fitful gleams of that baneful glory, which afterwards blasted the country it illuminated and deceived. She had long remained an ap parently indifferent spectator of the distracting scenes that were passing around her; and left Francis a willing tool in the hands of the pow erful Princes of Lorraine, who, after his mar riage with their ill-fated niece, Mary of Scotland, assumed an unlimited control over the king. 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.
