Download or read book The Infamous Sophie Dawes written by Adrian Searle and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was the daughter of an alcoholic Isle of Wight smuggler. Much of her childhood was spent in the island’s workhouse. Yet Sophie Dawes threw off the shackles of her downbeat formative years to become one of the most talked-about personalities in post-revolutionary France. It was the ultimate rags to riches story which would see her become the mistress of the fabulously wealthy French aristocrat Louis Henri de Bourbon, destined to be the last Prince of Condé. Her total subjugation of the ageing prince, her obsessive desire for a position among the highest echelon of French royalist society following the Bourbon restoration, and her designs upon a hefty chunk of Louis Henri’s vast fortune would lead to scandal, sensation and then infamy. The Infamous Sophie Dawes takes an in-depth look at her island background before tracing her extraordinary rise from obscurity to becoming a baroness who ruled the prince’s château at Chantilly as its unofficial queen and intrigued with the King of the French to get what she wanted. But how far did she go? The book examines the mysterious death of Louis Henri in 1830 and uses newly discovered evidence in a bid to determine the part Sophie may have played in his demise.

Download or read book The Scandal of Sophie Dawes written by Marjorie Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Sex Scandals written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex scandals, some historical but many contemporary, involving political figures, celebrities, movie stars, sports stars, musicians and artists, from Julius Caesar's affair with Cleopatra, which scandalized Rome and may have contributed to his murder, to what exactly IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn did or didn't get up to in that New York hotel room. England's Edward II was put to death by having a red-hot poker shoved up 'those parts in which he had been wont to make his vicious pleasures' and James Dean was known as 'the human ashtray' for the pleasure he took in having cigarettes stubbed out on his body, but from Silvio Berlusconi to Tiger Woods, many have been more focused on pleasure than pain. Even Barack Obama gets a look in - did he have an affair with Vera Baker?

Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Isle of Wight Villains written by Jan Toms and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once renowned as a place to dump criminals, and with a past steeped in smuggling, the Isle of Wight provides copious tales of corruption, violence and delinquency. From the customs officer who had both his hands severed by smugglers, to Bembridge witch Molly Downer who embarrassed the vicar by making him her heir, this book contains a vast array of misdeeds and miscreants. Featuring criminals such as Michael Morey, who butchered his grandson, and thirteen-year-old John Leigh, who strangled his father and, caught in the act by his sister, threw her from a window, Isle of Wight Villains details the darker side of this island paradise.

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Download or read book France written by Jonathan Fenby and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: The history of modern France. London: Simon & Schuster, 2015.

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