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Author | : Danielle Steel |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2023-11-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1529085535 |
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A special invitation. A night to remember . . . The Ball at Versailles is a sparkling, captivating tale of four young women and one life-changing night, from the billion copy bestselling author, Danielle Steel. 1958. The Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will go down in history. It is a glamorous dusk-to-dawn ball, where a select group of debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. And for four young women, all with something to prove, it is an event they will never forget. Amelia Alexander is the daughter of a hard-working, single mother who sacrifices everything to ensure that Amelia can take every opportunity for a better life. Caroline Taylor is pursuing a passionate affair with an up-and-coming movie star ten years her senior. But does he love her, or is his interest because of her famous father? Nuclear physics student, Felicity Smith, is uninterested in fashion and socializing, but she attends the ball to please her parents and to step out of the shadow of her sister. And Samantha Walker is the beloved, over-protected daughter of a wealthy businessman, her excitement about the invitation overshadowed by a past tragedy that still haunts her. An exclusive invitation, a trip to Paris, and one spectacular, show stopping night will change these young women’s lives forever . . .
Author | : Christine Pevitt |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780802140357 |
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This biography of the legendary mistress of King Louis XV offers dramatic insight into the life of one of the most enchanting, powerful, and feared women to grace the world's stage. Groomed from an early age to assume the role of a rich man's mistress, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson underwent several transformations before she caught the heart of the king himself. Although accustomed to the king's extramarital relationships, the court was shocked at the sudden ascension of the low-born Mademoiselle Poisson. The newcomer, however, wasted no time in establishing herself as the king's sole confidante and, ultimately, his indispensable partner in affairs of state. The critically acclaimed author of Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, Christine Pevitt Algrant traces Madame de Pompadour from her modest beginnings in early-eighteenth-century Paris to her reign as the undisputed mistress of Versailles. Filled with photographs, and evocative and insightful in its telling, Madame de Pompadour is a seductive portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential women of the age.
Author | : Nancy Mitford |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2011-10-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1448103495 |
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When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she was groomed to become 'a morsel fit for a King'. Nancy Mitford lovingly tells the story of how the little girl rose, against a backdrop of savage social-climbing, intrigue, excess and high drama, to become the most powerful women of the eighteenth century French court, Le Pompadour.
Author | : Sarah Tytler |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3732638766 |
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Reproduction of the original: The Queen by Sarah Tytler
Author | : Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2006-01-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 074327086X |
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Written with an insider's keen understanding of court life and filled with delicious details born of impeccable research, Cupid and the King explores a little-known chapter of the history of women's roles in the royal bedrooms of Europe.
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Total Pages | : 1068 |
Release | : 1843 |
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Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2018-01-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3732624463 |
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Author | : Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2022-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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This is an autobiography and memoirs of the extraordinary life of Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun (1756-1842), one of the finest painters of eighteenth-century France. She was highly esteemed by painters at home and abroad and became one of the few women admitted to the French Academy at a time when a career as an artist was all but restricted to men. Due to this honor, she entered the higher society and got acquainted with both aristocracy and the greatest artists and writers of the day. Among the people she managed to see in her life, a reader will find Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, Benjamin Franklin, and Lord Byron.
Author | : Sima Godfrey |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2023-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1487547781 |
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The Crimean War (1854–56) is widely considered the first modern war with its tactical use of railways, telegraphs, and battleships, its long-range rifles, and its notorious trenches – precursors of the Great War. It is also the first media war: the first to know the impact of a correspondent on the field of battle and the first to be documented in photographs. No one, however, including the French themselves, seems to remember that France was there, fighting in Crimea, losing 95,000 soldiers and leading the Allied campaign to victory. It would seem that the Crimean War has no place in the canon of culturally retained historical events that define modern French identity. Looking at literature, art, theatre, material objects, and medical reports, The Crimean War and Cultural Memory considers how the Crimean War was and was not represented in French cultural history in the second half of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, the book illuminates the forgotten traces that the Crimean War left on the French cultural landscape.