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Book Notes and Queries

Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart

Download or read book France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart written by Raymond Jonas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-09-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a richly layered and beautifully illustrated narrative, Raymond Jonas tells the fascinating and surprisingly little-known story of the Sacr -Coeur, or Sacred Heart. The highest point in Paris and a celebrated tourist destination, the white-domed basilica of Sacr -Coeur on Montmartre is a key monument both to French Catholicism and to French national identity. Jonas masterfully reconstructs the history of the devotion responsible for the basilica, beginning with the apparition of the Sacred Heart to Marguerite Marie Alacoque in the seventeenth century, through the French Revolution and its aftermath, to the construction of the monumental church that has loomed over Paris since the end of the nineteenth century. Jonas focuses on key moments in the development of the cult: the founding apparition, its invocation during the plague of Marseilles, its adaptation as a royalist symbol during the French Revolution, and its elevation to a central position in Catholic devotional and political life in the crisis surrounding the Franco-Prussian War. He draws on a wealth of archival sources to produce a learned yet accessible narrative that encompasses a remarkable sweep of French politics, history, architecture, and art.

Book Sale Catalogues

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  • Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1432 pages

Download or read book Sale Catalogues written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conde in Context

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  • Author : Mark Bannister
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-12-02
  • ISBN : 1351198335
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book Conde in Context written by Mark Bannister and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Louis II de Bourbon (1621-86), known as Le Grand Conde, stood alongside Richelieu and Mazarin as one of the key figures who shaped the reign of Louis XIV. In response to profound upheavals in their world, his contemporaries looked to him to satisfy their need for a hero. Originally the warrior-hero par excellence, Conde was redefined by successive generations as the ideal subject of the absolutist state, as the epitome of civilized behaviour and, finally, as the exemplar of the triumph of faith over reason. In this first detailed study in English of Le Grand Conde's significance for his contemporaries, Mark Bannister reveals the complexity of the ideological patterns forming and reforming in seventeenth-century France, and the perennial need to believe in the existence of an iconic figure, incarnating new values as they emerge."

Book A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth Century France

Download or read book A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth Century France written by Ronald Schechter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary political discourse, it is common to denounce violent acts as “terroristic.” But this reflexive denunciation is a surprisingly recent development. In A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter tells the story of the term’s evolution in Western thought, examining a neglected yet crucial chapter of our complicated romance with terror. For centuries prior to the French Revolution, the word “terror” had largely positive connotations. Subjects flattered monarchs with the label “terror of his enemies.” Lawyers invoked the “terror of the laws.” Theater critics praised tragedies that imparted terror and pity. By August 1794, however, terror had lost its positive valence. As revolutionaries sought to rid France of its enemies, terror became associated with surveillance committees, tribunals, and the guillotine. By unearthing the tradition that associated terror with justice, magnificence, and health, Schechter helps us understand how the revolutionary call to make terror the order of the day could inspire such fervent loyalty in the first place—even as the gratuitous violence of the revolution eventually transformed it into the dreadful term we would recognize today. Most important, perhaps, Schechter proposes that terror is not an import to Western civilization—as contemporary discourse often suggests—but rather a domestic product with a long and consequential tradition.

Book Monsieur  Second Sons in the Monarchy of France  1550   1800

Download or read book Monsieur Second Sons in the Monarchy of France 1550 1800 written by Jonathan Spangler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, this volume brings together the history of the royal spare in the monarchy of early modern France, those younger brothers of kings known simply as ‘Monsieur’. Ranging from the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution, this comparative study examines the frustrations of four royal princes whose proximity to their older brothers gave them vast privileges and great prestige, but also placed severe limitations on their activities and aspirations. Each chapter analyses a different aspect of the lives of François, duke of Alençon, Gaston, duke of Orléans, Philippe, duke of Orléans and Louis-Stanislas, count of Provence, starting with their birth and education, their marriages and political careers, and their search for alternative expressions of power through the patronage of the arts, architecture and learning. By comparing these four lives, a powerful image emerges of a key development in the institution of modern monarchy: the transformation of the rebellious, politically ambitious prince into the loyal defender – even in disagreement – of the Crown and of the older brother who wore it. This volume is the perfect resource for all students and scholars interested in the history of France, monarchy, early modern state building and court studies.

Book Oraison fun  bre

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  • Author : Pierre Étienne de Bonnevie
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1814
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Oraison fun bre written by Pierre Étienne de Bonnevie and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oraison Funebre de Tres Haut  Tres Puissant Et Tres Excellent Prince Louis XVIII

Download or read book Oraison Funebre de Tres Haut Tres Puissant Et Tres Excellent Prince Louis XVIII written by Breton-L-J and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by Francis Edwards (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sale

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  • Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1406 pages

Download or read book Sale written by Anderson Galleries, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Neue Zeitungen von Gelehrten Sachen  auf das Jahr M DCC XVII  Erster Theil  Oder Gesammlete Nachrichten von allem  was das erste halbe Jahr   ber in der gelehrten Welt Ruhm  und Merckw  rdiges vorgefallen

Download or read book Neue Zeitungen von Gelehrten Sachen auf das Jahr M DCC XVII Erster Theil Oder Gesammlete Nachrichten von allem was das erste halbe Jahr ber in der gelehrten Welt Ruhm und Merckw rdiges vorgefallen written by and published by . This book was released on 1717 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: