Download or read book The Amours of the Chevalier de Faublas written by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Creation of Anne Boleyn written by Susan Bordo and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating history examines the life and many legends of the 16th century Queen who was executed by her husband, King Henry VIII. Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne’s life and a revealing look at her afterlife in the popular imagination. Why is her story so compelling? Why has she inspired such extreme reactions? Was she the flaxen-haired martyr of Romantic paintings or the raven-haired seductress of twenty-first-century portrayals? (Answer: neither.) But the most provocative question of all concerns Anne’s death: How could Henry order the execution of a once beloved wife? Drawing on scholarship and critical analysis, Bordo probes the complexities of one of history’s most infamous relationships. She then demonstrates how generations of polemicists, biographers, novelists, and filmmakers have imagined and re-imagined Anne: whore, martyr, cautionary tale, proto “mean girl,” feminist icon, and everything in between. In The Creation of Anne Boleyn, Bordo steps off the well-trodden paths of Tudoriana to tease out the human being behind the competing mythologies, paintings, and on-screen portrayals.

Download or read book I Livia written by Mary Mudd and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical tradition of Roman origin represents Livia Drusilla, the third and much beloved wife of Caesar Augustus, as a conniving, Borgia-like criminal. This view of Livia maintains, that to promote the political career of her son by her former husband, Livia killed or incapacitated Augustus' descendants through his previous wife. Author Robert Graves, in his famous novel, I, Claudius, based his fictitious rendering of Livia upon this malevolent representation of her. The conceit is patently wrong, and essentially all modern scholars of Roman history reject it. But thanks to Graves' immensely entertaining book, and the British Broadcasting Corporation adaptation of it for television, the image of Livia as a devious dynastic murderess prevails in the popular mind. I, Livia: The Counterfeit Criminal aspires to correct the misconception, and present an accurate assessment of this much-maligned woman. The study's comfortably readable style is intended for general audiences. The first three chapters present a biographical sketch, which focuses on Livia's public life. Livia was accepted as an extraordinarily visible, dynamic and influential political personage, by a society and culture that maintained that women must confine their activities childrearing and other domestic pursuits. The following two chapters demonstrate the absurdity of Livia's criminal reputation, and offer explanation for its development. Three subsequent chapters seek Livia's private side - her habits, tastes, and interpersonal relationships. Livia (who suffered from colds and chronic arthritis) was an amiable soul, with a self-deprecating sense of humor. She was a loving, supportive forbearant wife and mother, an intellectual with profound political insights, an enthusiastic traveller, a connoisseur of art. Although generally patient and demure, she could also be impulsive, assertive, opinionated and, especially in later life, petulant. The final chapter examines how Livia became, and remained, a symbol of Roman imperial power. The brief epilogue describes the physical appearances of Livia and the members of her family. Also included are relevant appendices, a comprehensive bibliography, and color images of surviving wall paintings from her homes.

Download or read book Premier interrogatoire de Marie Antoinette d Autriche ci devant Reine des Fran ais written by and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tales of the Castle Or Stories of Instruction and Delight written by Stéphanie Félicité Brulart comtesse de Genlis and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Premier interrogatoire de Marie Antoinette d Autriche ci devant reine des Fran ais avec le recueil des pi ces et lettres de conspirations depuis le 12 juillet 1789 jusqu au 10 ao t 1792 trouv es dans ses appartements ainsi que ses r ponses aux interrogats qui lui ont t faits hier 10 heures du matin par le jur d accusation dans sa prison au Temple written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Queen of France written by Andre Castelot and published by Ishi Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the biography of one of the most tragic women in History. It is the story of a frivolous young girl who threw wild parties and spent a lot of her husband's money and for that reason, and that reason alone, she had her head chopped off in public. The back cover photo here shows Marie Antoinette being given her last rights by a clergyman as she was waiting before the guillotine for the executioners to cut off her head, and while a crowd of thousands watched. Her last words were one of apology to one of her executioners, when she accidentally stepped on his foot. All of the events of the Life of Marie Antoinette are brilliantly explained in this biography by Andre Castelot. The most haunting and harrowing pages of the biography are Castelot's darkly etched picture of the Queen in the culminating moments of her life. Perhaps it is not in the least a paradox that one of the most arrantly self-indulgent women should, in her adversity, provide one of the most memorable images of mother love."

Download or read book Premier Interrogatoire de Marie Antoinette ci devant Reine des Fran ais avec le recueil des pi ces et lettres de conspirations depuis le 12 juillet 1789 jusq au 10 ao t 1792 trouv es dans ses appartemens etc written by Queen Marie Antoinette (consort of Louis XVI, King of France) and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wicked Queen written by Chantal Thomas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chantal Thomas presents the history of the mythification of one of the most infamous queens in all history, whose execution still fascinates us today. In The Wicked Queen, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the mythification of one of the most infamous queens in all history, whose execution still fascinates us today. Almost as soon as Marie-Antoinette, archduchess of Austria, was brought to France as the bride of Louis XVI in 1771, she was smothered in images. In a monarchy increasingly under assault, the charm and horror of her feminine body and her political power as a foreign intruder turned Marie-Antoinette into an alien other. Marie-Antoinette's mythification, argues Thomas, must be interpreted as the misogynist demonization of women's power and authority in revolutionary France.In a series of pamphlets written from the 1770s until her death in 1793, Marie-Antoinette is portrayed as a spendthrift, a libertine, an orgiastic lesbian, and a poisoner and infant murderess. In her analyses of these pamphlets, seven of which appear here in translation for the first time, Thomas reconstructs how the mounting hallucinatory and libelous discourse culminated in the inevitable destruction of what had become the counterrevolutionary symbol par excellence. The Wicked Queen exposes the elaborate process by which the myth of Marie-Antoinette emerged as a crucial element in the successful staging of the French Revolution.

Download or read book Louise de la Valliere Or the Love of Bragelonne written by Alexandre Dumas and published by United Holdings Group. This book was released on 1910 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Marie Antoinette written by Stefan Zweig and published by République des Lettres. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «Écrire l’histoire de Marie-Antoinette, c’est reprendre un procès plus que séculaire, où accusateurs et défenseurs se contredisent avec violence. Le ton passionné de la discussion vient des accusateurs. Pour atteindre la royauté, la Révolution devait attaquer la reine, et dans la reine la femme. Or, la vérité et la politique habitent rarement sous le même toit, et là où l’on veut dessiner une figure avec l’intention de plaire à la multitude, il y a peu de justice à attendre des serviteurs complaisants de l’opinion publique. On n’épargna à Marie-Antoinette aucune calomnie, on usa de tous les moyens pour la conduire à la guillotine; journaux, brochures, livres attribuèrent sans hésitation à la «louve autrichienne» tous les vices, toutes les dépravations morales, toutes les perversités; dans l’asile même de la justice, au tribunal, le procureur général compara pathétiquement la «veuve Capet» aux débauchées les plus célèbres de l’Histoire, à Messaline, Agrippine et Frédégonde.» — Stefan Zweig.

Download or read book Marie Antoinette Format 23x15 CM written by Stefan Zweig and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecrire l'histoire de Marie-Antoinette, c'est reprendre un proces plus que seculaire, ou accusateurs et defenseurs se contredisent avec violence. Le ton passionne de la discussion vient des accusateurs. Pour atteindre la royaute, la Revolution devait attaquer la reine, et dans la reine la femme. Or, la verite et la politique habitent rarement sous le meme toit, et la ou l'on veut dessiner une figure avec l'intention de plaire a la multitude, il y a peu de justice a attendre des serviteurs complaisants de l'opinion publique. On n'epargna a Marie-Antoinette aucune calomnie, on usa de tous les moyens pour la conduire a la guillotine; journaux, brochures, livres attribuerent sans hesitation a la louve autrichienne tous les vices, toutes les depravations morales, toutes les perversites; dans l'asile meme de la justice, au tribunal, le procureur general compara pathetiquement la veuve Capet aux debauchees les plus celebres de l'Histoire, a Messaline, Agrippine et Fredegonde. Le revirement fut d'autant plus profond, lorsque, en 1815, un Bourbon monta de nouveau sur le trone; pour flatter la dynastie, on repeint l'image diabolique sous les couleurs les plus flatteuses; pas de portrait de Marie-Antoinette datant de cette epoque ou elle ne soit idealisee et aureolee. Les panegyriques se succedent; la vertu insoupconnable de Marie-Antoinette est farouchement defendue, on celebre en vers et en prose son esprit de sacrifice, sa grandeur d'ame, son pur heroisme; et des anecdotes, abondamment trempees de larmes, tissees la plupart du temps par le monde aristocratique, encadrent le visage transfigure de la reine martyre Avec cet ouvrage, Stefan Zweig signe une biographie remarquable et depeint avec brio cette epoque trouble de l'Histoire de France. Un livre incontournable pour qui s'interesse de pres ou de loin a Marie Antoinette ou a la revolution francaise. Livre egalement disponible au format 20x13 cm ( http: //north-stared.wixsite.com/editions/histoire ) ainsi qu'en langue allemande dans la collection North Star Ed. et sous les memes deux formats broches. **************************************************************************** D'autres ouvrages a decouvrir dans la collection North Star Ed. (Lettres Classiques, SF Anticipation, Fantastique) cliquez sur le lien: "North Star Ed" sous le titre du livre. -- Consultez egalement la section "Livres anglais et etrangers" -- Ou consultez notre site: http: //north-stared.wix.com/editions ****************************************************************************