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Marie Antoinette has remained atop the popular cultural landscape for centuries for the daring in style and fashion that she brought to 18th century France. For the better part of the queen's reign, one man was entrusted with the sole responsibility of ensuring that her coiffure was at its most ostentatious best. Who was this minister of fashion who wielded such tremendous influence over the queen's affairs?
“Marie Antoinette's Head: The Royal...
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Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, born a Creole on the island of Martinique in the French West Indies, became one of the best known and most envied women who ever lived. Sent to France to make an advantageous marriage to a young aristocrat, her naiveté and lack of education left her ill prepared to deal with the sophisticated, if decadent, world of pre-Revolutionary Paris. Treated cruelly by her shallow young husband, her life had become a nightmare...
7) Cake eater
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The year is 3070, and Marie Antoinette has just arrived at Versailles. Marie is an App sensation, a style icon, and a maven of social influence with millions of followers - but here, in the glamorous Franc Kingdom, her job is simply to marry Louis-Auguste. Unfortunately, Louis doesn't seem interested in Marie, making her feel lonelier than ever in this new country. Luckily, Marie has a distraction: opulent soirées and decadent after parties abound...
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Olivia Kinley thought she was finally proving herself worthy of her family's prestigious name. Until lone-wolf management consultant Adam Jackson is brought on to her project! She's as frustrated by his expertise as she is by their undeniable attraction. Getting attached isn't an option for them. So one unforgettable, unrepeatable night has to be enough! Until a business trip to Paris confirms that it really isn't ...
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A surprising appointment to command the Army of Italy and a series of battles resulting in the defeat of Italy s French enemies were the precursors to Napoleon Bonaparte, a son of the Revolution, changing the face of Europe prior to his position in France. A confident and relentless man, Napoleon Bonaparte became the First Consul possessing supreme power as the ruler of France. His eventual self-coronation as the Emperor Napoleon led to many people...
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This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family's arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the "waiting room for the guillotine" because prisoners only spent a day or two here before their conviction and subsequent execution. The ex-queen surely knew her days were numbered, but she could never have known that two and a...
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A comprehensive look at the life of Marie Antoinette. Wife to King Louis XVI, she was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution. Her life has become a symbol of the rich continuing their ostentatious lifestyle even while their country lives in squalor around them.
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'Ah!' said the fortune teller, 'the tennis ball of fortune! A wife yet not a mother. Always near a throne, yet doomed not to ascend it. The daughter of Kings — yet much more truly the daughter of misfortune.
'I see before you restoration to the Country and Palace of your fathers. Again the banners of royalty wave over you, and you advance a step nearer to a crown... '
She is Marie Thérèse, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and this is...
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Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV, was born in a bleak French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor and murderer, her mother the warden's seduced daughter. A timely pardon and a hopeful Caribbean colonial venture failed to mend the family's fortunes, and Françoise was reduced to begging in the streets. Yet, armed with beauty, intellect, and shrewd judgment, she was to make her way to...
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Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June 1644 in the besieged city of Exeter at the very height of the English Civil War. The hostilities had separated her parents and her mother was on the run from Parliamentary forces when she gave birth with only a few attendants on hand to give her support. Within just a few days she was on her way to the coast for a moonlit escape to her native France, leaving her...
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The time of imminent peril to the Royal Family in France likely has passed. So, it was thought that the secrets kept by the Jacobites were nigh time to be revealed. This is, the sacred book, that attempts to piece together true, historical genealogical accounts of how a descendant of Charlemagne lives today.
The Roman Catholic Prophets were not wrong. No, rather, they were right. We are helping to restore Christendom and glorify God.
Although it...
16) Philippe-Auguste
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Extrait : "Louis VII, dit le Jeune, était parvenu à l'âge de cinquante-quatre ans sans obtenir d'enfants mâle. Quoique la succession héréditaire et le droit de primogéniture ne fussent pas encore établis sur des principes certains, ce roi désirait ardemment un fils, afin de l'associer de son vivant à la couronne, avec le concours des puissants des barons de France."
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Extrait : "Le drame antique ne présente aucun sujet plus noble et émouvant que la vie et la mort de l'archiduchesse Marie-Antoinette-Josépha, reine de France. Jeune Dauphine à quinze ans, elle s'était confiée à sa nouvelle nation ; elle avait accepté ses usages, son esprit, ses modes et même loyalement sa politique ; elle avait été acclamée partout, dans les fêtes, les bals, le théâtre. Tout ce charme, toute cette puissance conquise...
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Young royals volume 5
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While her tyrannical family is out of favor in Italy, young Catherine de Medici is raised in convents, then in 1533, when she is fourteen, her uncle, Pope Clement VII, arranges for her marriage to prince Henri of France, who is destined to become king.
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The second son of Alfonso d'Este and Lucretia Borgia, the Duke and Duchess of Ferrara, Ippolito d'Este was made the archbishop of Milan at the age of nine. But from the time of his father's death in 1534, he set his ambitions on acquiring the powerful and coveted cardinal's hat. But one did not become a sixteenth century prince of the church through piety and good works. Ippolito had a taste for gambling and women. He enjoyed hunting in the Loir valley...
20) Curiosités historiques sur Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Mme de Maintenon, Mme de Pompadour, M
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Extrait : "A quelle époque faut-il faire remonter la construction du château que Louis XIII fit élever à Versailles ? Comme les divers écrivains qui ont traité ce point historique ne sont point d'accord entre eux, et que nous nous proposons de fournir des documents nouveaux pouvant servir à éclaircir la question ; nous allons entrer dans quelques détails à ce sujet."
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