Download or read book Stray Pearls Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont Viscountess of Bellaise written by Charlotte M. Yonge and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Stray Pearls Memoirs Of Margaret De Ribaumont Viscountess Of Bellaise written by Charlotte Yonge and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical book "Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise" by Charlotte Yonge transports readers to 16th-century France. The heroine and narrator Margaret De Ribaumont's memoirs provide a vivid picture of life during the turbulent period of religious conflict and political intrigue in the book. Readers follow Margaret's trip as she leaves behind her beautiful upbringing in the French countryside and arrives to the lavish and perilous court of King Henry III as the narrative progresses. She navigates love, grief, and the nuances of her own conflicted allegiance between the Catholic and Huguenot groups as she goes. Readers see significant historical occurrences like the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre via Margaret's eyes and meet lovable people who influence her future. Readers are transported to a bygone period when beauty and violence coexist because to Charlotte Yonge's diligent research and powerful writing. The work examines themes of religion, love, responsibility, and the human spirit's resiliency in the face of difficulty. The emotional and introspective narrative voice of Margaret offers a close-up view of the significant historical events taking place all around her. "Stray Pearls" offers readers an engrossing look into the complicated and interesting world of 16th-century France via a gripping blending of romance, history, and coming-of-age narrative.
Download or read book Stray Pearls Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont Viscountess of Bellaise written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
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Download or read book Stray Pearls Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont Viscountess of Bellaise written by Charlotte M. Yonge and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-12 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Stray Pearls Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont Viscountess of Bellaise written by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.
Download or read book Stray Pearls Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont Viscountess of Bellaise written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one can be more aware than the author that the construction of this tale is defective. The state of French society, and the strange scenes of the Fronde, beguiled me into a tale which has become rather a family record than a novel. Formerly the Muse of the historical romance was an independent and arbitrary personage, who could compress time, resuscitate the dead, give mighty deeds to imaginary heroes, exchange substitutes for popular martyrs on the scaffold, and make the most stubborn facts subservient to her purpose. Indeed, her most favoured son boldly asserted her right to bend time and place to her purpose, and to make the interest and effectiveness of her work the paramount object. But critics have lashed her out of these erratic ways, and she is now become the meek hand maid of Clio, creeping obediently in the track of the greater Muse, and never venturing on more than colouring and working up the grand outlines that her mistress has left undefined. Thus, in the present tale, though it would have been far more convenient not to have spread the story over such a length of time, and to have made the catastrophe depend upon the heroes and heroines, instead of keeping them mere ineffective spectators, or only engaged in imaginary adventures for which a precedent can be found, it has been necessary to stretch out their narrative, so as to be at least consistent with the real history, at the entire sacrifice of the plot. And it may be feared that thus the story may partake of the confusion that really reigned over the tangled thread of events. There is no portion of history better illustrated by memoirs of the actors therein than is the Fronde; but, perhaps, for that very reason none so confusing. Perhaps it may be an assistance to the reader to lay out the bare historical outline like a map, showing to what incidents the memoirs of the Sisters of Ribaumont have to conform themselves. When Henry IV. succeeded in obtaining the throne of France, he found the feudal nobility depressed by the long civil war, and his exchequer exhausted. He and his minister Sully returned to the policy of Louis XI., by which the nobles were to be kept down and prevented from threatening the royal power. This was seldom done by violence, but by giving them employment in the Army and Court, attaching them to the person of the King, and giving them offices with pensions attached to them.
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Download or read book Stray Pearls Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont Viscountess of Bellaise written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
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Download or read book Stray Pearls Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont Viscountess of Bellaise written by Charlotte M. Yonge and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stray Pearls Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont Viscountess of Bellaise written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Download or read book Stray Pearls written by Charlotte M. Yonge and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one can be more aware than the author that the construction of this tale is defective. The state of French society, and the strange scenes of the Fronde, beguiled me into a tale which has become rather a family record than a novel. Formerly the Muse of the historical romance was an independent and arbitrary personage, who could compress time, resuscitate the dead, give mighty deeds to imaginary heroes, exchange substitutes for popular martyrs on the scaffold, and make the most stubborn facts subservient to her purpose. Indeed, her most favoured son boldly asserted her right to bend time and place to her purpose, and to make the interest and effectiveness of her work the paramount object. But critics have lashed her out of these erratic ways, and she is now become the meek hand maid of Clio, creeping obediently in the track of the greater Muse, and never venturing on more than colouring and working up the grand outlines that her mistress has left undefined.
Download or read book Stray Pearls written by Charlotte M Yonge and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have long promised you, my dear grandchildren, to arrange my recollections of the eventful years that even your father can hardly remember. I shall be glad thus to draw closer the bonds between ourselves and the English kindred, whom I love so heartily, though I may never hope to see them in this world, far less the dear old home where I grew up. For, as perhaps you have forgotten, I am an English woman by birth, having first seen the light at Walwyn House, in Dorsetshire. One brother had preceded me-my dear Eustace- and another brother, Berenger, and my little sister, Annora, followed me. Our family had property both in England and in Picardy, and it was while attending to some business connected with the French estate that my father had fallen in love with a beautiful young widow, Madame la Baronne de Solivet (nee Cheverny), and had brought her home, in spite of the opposition of her relations. I cannot tell whether she were warmly welcomed at Walwyn Court by any one but the dear beautiful grandmother, a Frenchwoman herself, who was delighted again to hear her mother tongue, although she had suffered much among the Huguenots in her youth, when her husband was left for dead on the S. Barthelemi.
Download or read book Stray Pearls written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
