Download or read book History of Louis XIV Classic Reprint written by John S. C. Abbott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Louis XIV WE all live a double life: the external life. Which the world sees, and the internal life of hopes and fears, joys and griefs, temptations and sins, which the world sees not, and of which it knows but little. None lead this double life more emphatically than those who are seated upon thrones. Though this historic sketch contains allu sions to all the most important events in the reign of Louis XIV., it has been the main ob jcet of the writer to develop the inner life of the palace; to lead the reader into the interior of the Louvre, the Tuileries, Versailles, and Marly, and to exhibit the monarch as a man, in the details of domestic privacy. This can more easily be done in reference to Louis XIV. Than any other king. Very many of the prominent members of his house hold left their autobiographies, filled with the minutest incidents of every-day life. 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 Versailles and the Court Under Louis XIV Classic Reprint written by James Eugene Farmer and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Versailles and the Court Under Louis XIV O portray the court of Louis XIV it is necessary to describe the Versailles Of the seventeenth century, for though the Chateau Of Versailles still stands, that which made it once the wonder Of Europe is. 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 Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652 1693 Classic Reprint written by Cécile Vincens and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 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 Louis XIV written by Arthur Hassall and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Louis XIV: And the Zenith of the French Monarchy Growth of a European opposition to Louis - Formation of the League of Augsburg, July, 1686 - Louis' demands - His determination to secure the districts given him for twenty years by the Truce of Ratisbon - The Cologne Archbishop rick - The Palatinate Succession question - Seizure of Phil ippsburg - Criticism of Louis' action - Revolution of 1688 in England - The German opposition to France is strength ened - Devastation of the Palatinate - Its import and - ejects - The definite beginning of the war of Augsburg - England's in uence thrown against Louis - War between England and France in Ireland, at sea, and in the Spanish Netherlands The battles of Beachy Head and the Boyne - Ruin of James ii.'s cause in Ireland - French defeat at La Hogue - Campaigns in the Netherlands, in Italy, and on the Rhine - Death of Louvois - Defection of the Duke of Savoy - Peace of Ryswick - The Peace only a truce. 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 Louise De La Valliere and the Early Life of Louis XIV Classic Reprint written by Jules Lair and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Louise De La Valliere and the Early Life of Louis XIV It would be unbecoming to seem to dedicate twice so modest a volume, but may I record here that it was Monsieur Brunetiere who first drew public atten tion, with all the authority and indulgence of a master. 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 Great Days of Versailles written by G. F. Bradby and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Great Days of Versailles: Studies From Court Life in the Later Years of Louis XIV The following pages do not profess to be history; still less do they pretend to throw any new light upon a period which is already so exhaustively known through its memoirs and its letters. All that I have attempted to do is to reconstruct from familiar materials a picture of Court life at Versailles in the later years of Louis XIV - the manners, customs, and interests of a unique society which has no counterpart in modern Europe - and to give a brief account of the private life and character of some of the people who figured most prominently in the events of the time. My hope is that such a compilation may be of use to those who intend to study the French eighteenth-century memoirs, by making them familiar with some of the personal questions which counted for so much at the French Court; and, also, that it may not be without interest for that large class of people who have neither time nor opportunity to study the period in detail, and who are forced to be content with the summaries of others. 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 Martin s History of France Vol 1 written by Henri Martin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Martin's History of France, Vol. 1: The Age of Louis XIV The Age of Louis XI V., which is published first by the trans lator, may interest the American reader above all by contrast. Louis the Great was the great adversary with which that Protes tant liberty, from which America was born, had to contend. The author of the History Of France, who professes principles quite opposite to those Of the ancient regime and the Old French Mon archy, has set forth, with all the impartiality in his power, the lustre and greatness of this monarchy, and the brilliant society Of which it was for some time the nucleus; but, the more resplendent were men and things, the more decisive is the conclusion, since all this glory ended only in one vast ruin. The principles Of Louis XIV. And Bossuet, the principles Of political and religious absolutism, are irrevocably condemned. 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 Louis XIV And His Contemporaries Classic Reprint written by Benjamin Bensley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Louis XIV. And His Contemporaries J ames - Marlborough finally reduces Ireland - Attempts to assassinate III. - Conduct of Louis to James II - Sketch. 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 Women of Versailles written by Imbert De Saint-Amand and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Women of Versailles: The Court of Louis XIV Arely has a city presented a spectacle so striking as that afforded by Versailles during the struggle of the army against the Commune. Between the grand century and our epoch, between the majesty of old France and the intestine broils of new France, between the dismal horrors of which Paris was the scene and the radiant souvenirs of the city of the sun-king, there was a contrast as painful as it was startling. Those avenues where one might see the head of the government and the illustrious defeated man of Reichshofien, that place of arms encumbered with cannons, those red flags, sad trophies of the civil war, which were taken to the Assembly as tokens of mourning as well as of victory, that magnificent palace whence seemed to issue a suppliant voice adjuring our soldiers to save so fair a heritage of historic splendors and national grandeurs, all filled the soul with profound emotion. 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 Louis XIV And His Contemporaries written by Gustave Masson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Louis XIV And His Contemporaries: A Series Of Extracts From Memoirs Of The Seventeenth Century On the present occasion, however, we must not forget that the long reign of Louis XIV marks out the limits of these introductory observations, and it will be better to keep strictly to the period of seventy-five years which ended in 1715. 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 Century of Louis XIV written by Emile Bourgeois and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Century of Louis XIV: Its Artist, Its Ideas This commendable instinct moreover ought not to be ex elusive, it should apply itself to the epoch of Louis XIV. As well as to the periods of the Revolution, Napoleon, and the Restoration. 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 Age of Louis XIV Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Henri Martin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Age of Louis XIV, Vol. 2 In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. Riverside cambridge stereotyped and printed 131 H. O. Houghton and company. 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 Princes and Poisoners written by Frantz Funck-Brentano and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV Twelve months ago I had the honour of introducing M. Frantz Funck-Brentano to the English public by my translation of his Legendes et Archives de la Bastille and in my preface to that book I gave a rapid sketch of his career which need not be repeated. If history is to be continually reconstructed, or rather, perhaps, to undergo a process of destructive distillation, there is no one more competent than M. Funck-Brentano to perform the feat. We lose our illusions with our teeth; the fables that charmed our childhood dissolve in the modern historians test-tube, and the mysteries that fascinated our forebears become clear with a few drops of his critical acid. 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 Age of Louis XIV Vol 13 written by Martin Philippson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Age of Louis XIV, Vol. 13: A History of All Nations In the long continued peace of the land, the wounds left by the Wars of the Roses had been healed. SO long as the nation was impoverished and enfeebled, it had submitted with out murmuring to a strong monarchy; but now commerce, manufactures, and agriculture had recovered. The city of London had become very rich, and was already the creditor of the monarch and all his foremost courtiers. Shipping had developed marvelously, and the seafaring class was as independent and as zealously Calvinistic as its employers, the merchants in the cities. Land had, in no small measure, passed out of the hands of the nobles into those of the industrious, self - respecting middle classes. 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 Favourites of Louis XIV Classic Reprint written by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Favourites of Louis XIV Marie de' Medici and her children-her Regency and Fall - Character of Louis XIII - His Ill Health and the Cause of his Death - His Reserve with Women - His Marriage to Anne of Austria - The King attracted by Mlle. De La Fayette - The Queen's Love Affairs - The Dukes of Bellegarde and buckingham-the Person of Anne of Austria - Her Alleged Marriage with Mazarin - Some Great Ladies of the Time - The Princess de Conde - The Duchess de Chevreuse - Marie, Duchess de Montbazon - The Duke and Duchess de Longueville - The Place Royale, its Mansions, its Statue, and its Life - The Famous boutteville-beuvron Duel - Baron de Chantal and his Fate - Marion de Lorme, her Origin, Life, and Lovers - A Good Friday omelet-marion, cinq-mars, and his Conspiracy - Richelieu and the Punishment of Rebels - Marion and Richelieu - Her Alleged Mock Funeral and Longevity - The True Story of her Death - Ninon de Lenclos and her House - Her Origin, Beauty, and Intellect - Her Lovers and her Court - La Bruyere, Moliere, and Voltaire - The Grand Prior and N luon Her Sons - Her Sevigne Lovers - Her Last Years and Death - Richelieu and his Work - Death of the Cardinal and of Louis XIII - The Little Dauphin - Anne of Austria's Coup d'e'tat. 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 Louis XIV and Madame De Maintenon Classic Reprint written by Charlotte Lady Blennerhassett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Louis XIV and Madame De Maintenon The proud, excitable saint-simon had revenged himself for the indifference with which She seems to have overlooked his person and even his name, which she mentions but once in the course of many years.1 The reasons for the Duchess of Orl'ans' hatred were more complicated, and Madame de Maintenon was not ignorant as to their nature. 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 English Restoration and Louis XIV written by Osmund Airy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English Restoration and Louis XIV: From the Peace of Westphalia, to the Peace of Nimwegen The epoch of European history with which I have here attempted to deal is an epoch of Restorations; Restorations which assume widely differing forms, in correspondence with the varying circumstances of the countries in which they take place. In France, after a period of fierce internal strife, during which all antagonistic influences exhaust themselves in a vain struggle with the tenacious purpose of Mazarin, and sink into helplessness, the triumphant monarchy emerges as a despotism of an almost oriental type. That despotism is conferred upon a Prince of great capacity and of boundless ambition, with all the instruments of ambition ready to his hand. 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.