Download or read book Lettres d Exil In dites written by Hector Fleischmann and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lettres d'Exil Inédites: Amérique Angleterre Italie; 1825 1844 Ce travail de toutes les heures, de tous les jours, fit entrer Meneval fort avant dans l'intimité du frère aîné du Premier Consul. Joseph devait lui en garder le plus tendre et le plus affectueux souvenir, dont témoignentéloquemment ses lettres d'exil. Peu t - ètre, a cette date; n'est-il point superflu de fixer quelques traits de la psvchologie de celui qui était appelé à deux couronnes royales. 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 Lettres D exil Inedites Amerique Angleterre Italie 1825 1844 written by Joseph Bonaparte (King of Spain) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Man Who Had Been King written by Patricia Tyson Stroud and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2005-05-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain, claimed that he had never wanted the overpowering roles thrust upon him by his illustrious younger brother Napoleon. Left to his own devices, he would probably have been a lawyer in his native Corsica, a country gentleman with leisure to read the great literature he treasured and oversee the maintenance of his property. When Napoleon's downfall forced Joseph into exile, he was able to become that country gentleman at last, but in a place he could scarcely have imagined. It comes as a surprise to most people that Joseph spent seventeen years in the United States following Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. In The Man Who Had Been King, Patricia Tyson Stroud has written a rich account—drawing on unpublished Bonaparte family letters—of this American exile, much of it passed in regal splendor high above the banks of the Delaware River in New Jersey. Upon his escape from France in 1815, Joseph arrived in the new land with a fortune in hand and shortly embarked upon building and fitting out the magnificent New Jersey estate he called Point Breeze. The palatial house was filled with paintings and sculpture by such luminaries as David, Canova, Rubens, and Titian. The surrounding park extended to 1,800 acres of luxuriously landscaped gardens, with twelve miles of carriage roads, an artificial lake, and a network of subterranean tunnels that aroused much local speculation. Stroud recounts how Joseph became friend and host to many of the nation's wealthiest and most cultivated citizens, and how his art collection played a crucial role in transmitting high European taste to America. He never ceased longing for his homeland, however. Despite his republican airs, he never stopped styling himself as "the Count de Survilliers," a noble title he fabricated on his first flight from France in 1814, when Napoleon was exiled to Elba, nor did he ever learn more than rudimentary English. Although he would repeatedly plead with his wife to join him, he was not a faithful husband, and Stroud narrates his affairs with an American and a Frenchwoman, both of whom bore him children. Yet he continued to feel the separation from his two legitimate daughters keenly and never stopped plotting to ensure the dynastic survival of the Bonapartes. In the end, the man who had been king returned to Europe, where he was eventually interred next to the tomb of his brother in Les Invalides. But the legacy of Joseph Bonaparte in America remains, and it is this that Patricia Tyson Stroud has masterfully uncovered in a book that is sure to appeal to lovers of art and gardens and European and American history.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin 1908 23 written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gentle Bonaparte written by Owen Connelly and published by New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier-Macmillan. This book was released on 1968 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The French Revolution and Napoleon Collection at Florida State University written by Donald D. Horward and published by [Tallahassee] : Friends of the Florida State University Library. This book was released on 1973 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Napoleon s Love Child written by Dennis Walton Dodds and published by London : W. Kimber. This book was released on 1974 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book French Emigration to Great Britain in Response to the French Revolution written by Juliette Reboul and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines diverse encounters between the British community and the thousands of French individuals who sought haven in the British Isles as they left revolutionary and Imperial France. This painstaking research into the emigrant archival and memorial presence in Britain uncovers a wealth of underused and alternative sources on this controversial population displacement. These include open letters and classified advertisements published in British newspapers, insurance contracts, as well as lists of addresses and passports drawn up by local authorities. These sources question the construction by British loyalists and French émigré elites of a stereotyped emigrant figure and their use of the trauma of forced displacement to advance ideological agendas. In fact, public and private discourses on governmental systems, foreigners, political and religious dissent, and the economic survival of French emigrants, demonstrate the heterogeneity of the responses to emigration in Britain. Ultimately, this book narrates a story in which the emigrant community and its host have been often unnoticeably yet fundamentally transformed by their encounter, in both practical and ideological domains.
Download or read book The Sense of Decadence in Nineteenth Century France written by Koenraad W. Swart and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was the best oftimes. It was the worst oftimes. " The famous open ing sentence ofCharles Dickens' Tale oJ Two Cities can serve as a motto to characterize the mixture of optimism and pessimism with which a large number of nineteenth-century intellectuals viewed the con dition of their age. It is nowadays hardly necessary to accentuate the optimistic elements in the nineteenth-century view of history; many recent historians have sharply contrasted the complacency and the great expectations of the past century with the fears and anxieties rampant in our own age. It is often too readily assumed that a hundred years ago all leading thinkers as weil as the educated public were addicted to the cult of progress and ignored or minimized those trends of their times that paved the way for the catastrophes of the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century the intoxicating triumphs of modern science undeniably induced the general public to believe that pro gress was not an accident but a necessity and that evil and immo rality would gradually disappear. Yet fears, misgivings, and anxieties were not as exceptional in the nineteenth century as is often imagined. Such feelings were not restricted to a few dissenting philosophers and poets like Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, 'Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche.
Download or read book Frontline and Factory written by Roy MacLeod and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a first considered attempt to study the factors that conditioned industrial chemistry for war in 1914-18. Taking a comparative perspective, it reflects on the experience of France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Britain, Italy and Russia, and points to significant similarities and differences. It looks at changing patterns in the organisation of industry, and at the emerging symbiosis between science, industry and the military.
Download or read book Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist written by Carlton Lake and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his experiences in building collections of rare books and manuscripts of French literature, and reveals little-known facts about French artists, composers, and writers.
