Download or read book Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette Queen of France Complete Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan First Lady in Waiting to the Queen written by Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette Queen of France Complete written by Mme. Campan and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Madame Campan, a lady-in-waiting in the service of Marie Antoinette, shares her experiences of life in the Royal Court of the queen in the years preceding the queen's execution amid the carnage of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
Download or read book Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette Queen of France Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan First Lady in Waiting to the Queen written by Jeanne Louise Henriette (Genet) Campan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette Queen of France Volume 1 written by Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Memoirs of Marie Antoinette Queen of France written by Madame Campan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Madame Campan
Download or read book Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette written by Campan Madame and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1823, these memoirs were written by the first lady-in-waiting to Queen Marie Antoinette of France. Madame Campan became close to the Queen during her 18 years in service. Her memoirs divulge details of the daily life at the royal court as well as recount the events of the Revolution from the royal family's perspective.
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Download or read book A Scented Palace written by Elisabeth de Feydeau and published by Tauris Parke. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of Marie-Antoinette's perfumer, Jean-Louis Fargeon. Montpellier, 1748: Jean-Louis Fargeon is born into a family of perfumers and soon becomes apprentice to his father's modest perfumery. But he dreams of the glittering court of Versailles and of becoming perfumer to the young queen, Marie Antoinette. His ambition carried him to Paris where his boutique became one of the most elegant and well-patronised in France. Concocting sumptuous perfumes and pomades for most of the French nobility, Fargeon eventually caught the attention of the queen. After meeting Marie Antoinette in the Trianon Palace, he began creating lavish bespoke scents that perfectly reflected her moods and personality. He served as her personal and exclusive perfumer for fourteen years until 1789 when the darkness of Revolution swept across France, its wrath aimed at the extravagance of a now hated queen. Fargeon, a lifelong supporter of the Republican cause but a purveyor to the court, was in a dangerous position. Yet he remained fiercely loyal to Marie Antoinette, beyond her desperate flight to Varennes, her execution and even through his own imprisonment and trial...
Download or read book Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette Queen of France Volume 7 written by Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette Queen of France written by Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queen of Fashion written by Caroline Weber and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked. Weber surveys Marie Antoinette's "Revolution in Dress," covering each phase of the queen's tumultuous life, beginning with the young girl, struggling to survive Versailles's rigid traditions of royal glamour (twelve-foot-wide hoopskirts, whalebone corsets that crushed her organs). As queen, Marie Antoinette used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power and wage war against her enemies. Gradually, however, she began to lose her hold on the French when she started to adopt "unqueenly" outfits (the provocative chemise) that, surprisingly, would be adopted by the revolutionaries who executed her. Weber's queen is sublime, human, and surprising: a sometimes courageous monarch unwilling to allow others to determine her destiny. The paradox of her tragic story, according to Weber, is that fashion—the vehicle she used to secure her triumphs—was also the means of her undoing. Weber's book is not only a stylish and original addition to Marie Antoinette scholarship, but also a moving, revelatory reinterpretation of one of history's most controversial figures.
Download or read book Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette written by Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette is an inside look into the life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, written by her First Lady in Waiting Madame Campan. Born in 1755 and married to Louis XVI of France at the age of 14, Antoinette was renowned for her fabled excesses. She was condemned for treason in 1793 at the zenith of the French Revolution, forfeiting her life to the razor-edge of a guillotine.
Download or read book Marie Antoinette s Confidante written by Geri Walton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the woman who befriended the last queen of France—and the price she paid for her devotion. Perhaps no one knew Marie Antoinette better than one of her closest confidantes, Marie Thérèse, the Princess de Lamballe. The princess became superintendent of the queen’s household in 1774, and through her relationship with Marie Antoinette, she gained a unique perspective of the lavishness and daily intrigue at Versailles. Born into the famous House of Savoy in Turin, Italy, Marie Thérèse was married at the age of seventeen to the Prince de Lamballe, heir to one of the richest fortunes in France. He transported her to the gold-leafed and glittering chandeliered halls of the Château de Versailles, where she soon found herself immersed in the political and sexual scandals that surrounded the royal court. As the plotters and planners of Versailles sought, at all costs, to gain the favor of Louis XVI and his queen, the Princess de Lamballe was there to witness it all. This book reveals the Princess de Lamballe’s version of these events and is based on a wide variety of historical sources, helping to capture the waning days and grisly demise of the French monarchy. The story immerses you in a world of titillating sexual rumors, bloodthirsty revolutionaries, and hair-raising escape attempts—a must read for anyone interested in Marie Antoinette, the origins of the French Revolution, or life in the late eighteenth century.
Download or read book Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette Queen of France written by Mme Campan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis XVI. meant to write his own memoirs; the manner in which his private papers were arranged indicated this design. The Queen also had the same intention; she long preserved a large correspondence, and a great number of minute reports, made in the spirit and upon the event of the moment. But after the 20th of June, 1792, she was obliged to burn the larger portion of what she had so collected, and the remainder were conveyed out of France. Considering the rank and situations of the persons I have named as capable of elucidating by their writings the history of our political storms, it will not be imagined that I aim at placing myself on a level with them; but I have spent half my life either with the daughters of Louis XV. or with Marie Antoinette. I knew the characters of those Princesses; I became privy to some extraordinary facts, the publication of which may be interesting, and the truth of the details will form the merit of my work. I was very young when I was placed about the Princesses, the daughters of Louis XV., in the capacity of reader. I was acquainted with the Court of Versailles before the time of the marriage of Louis XVI. with the Archduchess Marie Antoinette.
Download or read book Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette Queen of France Complete Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan First Lady in Waiting to the Queen written by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette Queen of France Volume 6 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan First Lady in Waiting to the Queen written by Mme. Campan and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (Volume 6); Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors' original publications, the text is readable and clear.
Download or read book Paris to the Past Traveling through French History by Train written by Ina Caro and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’d rather go to France with Ina Caro than with Henry Adams or Henry James.”—Newsweek In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on twenty-five one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through seven hundred years of French history. Whether taking us to Orléans to evoke the visions of Joan of Arc or to the Place de la Concorde to witness the beheading of Marie Antoinette, Caro animates history with her lush descriptions of architectural splendors and tales of court intrigue. “[An] enchanting travelogue” (Publishers Weekly), Paris to the Past has become one of the classic guidebooks of our time.
