Download or read book The Daughters of Louis XV written by Casimir Stryienski and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The appellation of "Mesdames" remained in history because of particular genealogical, political, and strategic circumstances that caused many of the eight daughters that Louis XV had with Marie Leszczynska to remain at the French court, including: Marie Louise Élisabeth of France (1727 - 1759), Madame Henriette Anne de France (1727 - 1752), her twin, entitled Madame Seconde, then Madame after the marriage of her twin sister Marie Louise de France (1728 - 1733), Madame Troisième, then Madame Louise Marie Adélaïde de France (1732 - 1800), Madame Quatrième, then Madame Troisième, then Madame Adélaïde and finally Madame, after the death of Madame Henriette Marie Louise Thérèse Victoire de France (1733 - 1799), Madame Quatrième, then Madame Victoire Sophie Philippine Élisabeth Justine de France (1734 - 1782), Madame Cinquième then Madame Sophie Marie Thérèse Félicité de France (1736 - 1744), Madame Sixième, then Madame Thérèse Louise Marie de France (1737 - 1787), Madame Septième or Dernière, then Madame Louise."--Wikipedia.

Download or read book The Life of Madame Louise de France written by H. L. Sidney Lear and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women of Versailles written by Imbert de Saint-Amand and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Daughters of Louis XV written by Casimir Stryienski and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Daughters of Louis XV Mesdames de France Translated from the French by Cranstoun Metcalfe With Portraits and Facsimile Letters written by Casimir STRYIENSKI and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Daughters of Louis XV Mesdames de France Trans from the French of Casimir Stryie ski by Cranstoun Metcalfe written by Casimir Stryienski and published by . This book was released on with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Daughters of Louis XV Mesdames de France Translated from the French of Casimir Stryie ski by Cranstoun Metcalfe written by Casimir Stryienski and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Daughter of Louis XVI Marie Th r se Charlotte de France Duchesse D Angoul me written by G. Lenotre and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Enemies of Versailles written by Sally Christie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final installment of Sally Christie’s “tantalizing” (New York Daily News) Mistresses of Versailles trilogy, Jeanne Becu, a woman of astounding beauty but humble birth, works her way from the grimy back streets of Paris to the palace of Versailles, where the aging King Louis XV has become a jaded and bitter old philanderer. Jeanne bursts into his life and, as the Comtesse du Barry, quickly becomes his official mistress. “That beastly bourgeois Pompadour was one thing; a common prostitute is quite another kettle of fish.” After decades of suffering the King's endless stream of Royal Favorites, the princesses of the Court have reached a breaking point. Horrified that he would bring the lowborn Comtesse du Barry into the hallowed halls of Versailles, Louis XV’s daughters, led by the indomitable Madame Adelaide, vow eternal enmity and enlist the dauphine Marie Antoinette in their fight against the new mistress. But as tensions rise and the French Revolution draws closer, a prostitute in the palace soon becomes the least of the nobility’s concerns. Told in Christie’s witty and engaging style, the final book in The Mistresses of Versailles trilogy will delight and entrance fans as it once again brings to life the sumptuous and cruel world of eighteenth century Versailles, and France as it approaches irrevocable change.

Download or read book The Private Memoirs of Louis XV written by Mme. Du Hausset and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women of Versailles written by Arthur Leon Imbert de Saint-Amand and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ruin of a Princess written by Marie-Thérèse Charlotte Angoulême (duchesse d') and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The life of madame Louise a Carmelite nun and daughter of Louis xv king of France transl written by Liévain Bonaventure Proyart and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Court of Louis XV written by Imbert de Saint-Amand and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1903-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there, in fact, any inventions more striking than reality? Can any novelist, however ingenious, find more varied combinations or more interesting scenes than the dramas of history? Could the most fertile mind imagine any types so curious as, for example, the women of the court of Louis XV.? The eternal womanly, as Goethe said, is all there with its vices and virtues, its pettiness and its grandeur, its weakness and its strength, its egotism and its devotion. What an instructive gallery! What diverse figures, from such a saint as Madame Louise of France, the Carmelite, to Madame Dubarry, the courtesan! In the Countess de Mailly, we have the modest favorite; in the Duchess de Châteauroux, the haughty favorite; in the Marquise de Pompadour, the intriguer, the female minister, the statesman; in Queen Marie Leczinska, the model of conjugal duty and fidelity; in the Dauphiness Marie Antoinette, the resplendent image of grace and youth, of poesy and purity; in the six daughters of the King, Madame the Infanta, so tender toward her father; Madame Henriette, her twin sister, who died of chagrin at twenty-four because she could not marry according to her inclination; Madame Adelaide and Madame Victoire, inseparable in adversity as well as in happier days; Madame Sophie, gentle and timid; Madame Louise, Amazon and Carmelite by turns, who cried in the delirium of her last agony: “To Paradise, quick, quick, to Paradise at full gallop!” History is the resurrection of the dead, but this resurrection is not an easy matter. To withdraw one’s self from the present in order to live in the past, to display characters, to make audible the words of all these personages who are sleeping their last sleep, to rekindle so many extinct flames, evoke so many vanished shades, is a work that would need the wand of a magician. History interests and impassions only when it penetrates the secret of souls. To make it a painting, in animated tones and warm colors, and not an insignificant monochrome, it is necessary that men and things should reappear as in a mirror that reflects the past. The preservation of the palace where they passed their existence facilitates the renascence of the women of the court of Louis XV. It is something to be able to say: Here such an event was accomplished, such a remark uttered. Here such a personage rendered her last sigh. The sight of the rooms where so many dramas were unfolded is in itself a fruitful lesson. The theatre remains; the decorations are hardly changed. But this is not all. The dust must be shaken from the costumes; the actors and actresses must be hunted up; the play must begin anew. There is no lack of materials for this work of reconstruction; they are even rather too abundant: memoirs by Duclos, Marais, Barbier, the Duke de Luynes, Maurepas, Villars, the Marquis d’Argenson, President Hénault, Madame du Hausset, Count de Ségur, Weber, Madame Campan;—histories by Voltaire, M. Henri Martin, Michelet, Jobez;—works by the brothers Goncourt, Sainte-Beuve, M. de Lescure, the Countess d’Armaillé, Boutaric, Honoré Bonhomme, Campardon, Capefigue, Le Roi, Barthélemy;—collections by M. Feuillet de Conches and M. d’Arneth;—the secret correspondence of Louis XV. with his secret diplomatic corps, that of Count Mercy-Argenteau with the Empress Maria Theresa, new editions of ancient books, autographs, recent publications—one is embarrassed by such a mass of riches. Not days, but months and years, are needed to become well acquainted with all these treasures. But life is so short and so preoccupied with affairs that the public, with few exceptions, has neither time nor inclination to study so many volumes. Is it not a critic’s business to spare his readers minute researches, to guide them through the labyrinth, to condense long works, to bring out saliently the most characteristic passages; in a word, to facilitate study and popularize history while scrupulously respecting truth? This is what we shall try to do for Louis XV. and the women of his court.

Download or read book The Sisters of Versailles written by Sally Christie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Court intriguers are beginning to sense that young King Louis XV, after seven years of marriage, is tiring of his Polish wife. The race is on to find a mistress for the royal bed. The King's scheming ministers push Louise, the eldest of the aristocratic Nesle sisters, into the arms of the King. Over the following decade, of the five Nesle sisters-- Louise, Pauline, Diane, Hortense, and Marie-Anne-- four will become mistresses to King Louis XV. All will conspire, betray, suffer, and triumph in a desperate fight for both love and power.

Download or read book Women of Versailles written by Imbert de Saint-Amand and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Marie Antoinette Princess of Versailles Austria France 1769 The Royal Diaries written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky's MARIE ANTOINETTE is back in print with a gorgeous new package! To forge an incredibly powerful political alliance, thirteen-year-old Marie Antoinette of Austria is betrothed to Dauphin Louis Auguste, who will one day be the king of France. To prepare the princess for becoming queen, she must be trained to write, read, speak French, dress, act . . . even breathe. Things become more difficult for her when she is separated from her family and sent to the court of Versailles to meet her future husband. Opinionated and headstrong Marie Antoinette must find a way to fit in at the royal court, and get along with her fiancé. The future of Austria and France falls upon her shoulders. But as she lives a luxurious life inside the palace gates, out on the streets the people of France face hunger and poverty. Through the pages of her diary, Marie captures the isolation, the lavish parties and gowns, her struggle to find her place, and the years leading up her ascendance of the throne . . . and a revolution.