Author: Joan Haslip
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781850437536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Born the illegitimate daughter of a monk and a seamstress, Madame du Barry rose from poverty to become one of the most powerful and wealthy women of France. A courtesan, she became Louis XV's official mistress and was fêted as one of France's most beautiful women. On Louis XV's death she became vulnerable to those secretly longing for her downfall. Marie Antoinette had her imprisoned for a year, and in 1793 she was executed by the Revolutionary Tribunal for her aristocratic associations. Joan Haslip's classic biography shares the extraordinary and ultimately tragic story of du Barry's life and, in turn, illustrates the dazzling world of the eighteenth century royal court of France and the horrors of the Revolution.
Madame Du Barry
Author: Joan Haslip
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781850437536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Born the illegitimate daughter of a monk and a seamstress, Madame du Barry rose from poverty to become one of the most powerful and wealthy women of France. A courtesan, she became Louis XV's official mistress and was fêted as one of France's most beautiful women. On Louis XV's death she became vulnerable to those secretly longing for her downfall. Marie Antoinette had her imprisoned for a year, and in 1793 she was executed by the Revolutionary Tribunal for her aristocratic associations. Joan Haslip's classic biography shares the extraordinary and ultimately tragic story of du Barry's life and, in turn, illustrates the dazzling world of the eighteenth century royal court of France and the horrors of the Revolution.
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781850437536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Born the illegitimate daughter of a monk and a seamstress, Madame du Barry rose from poverty to become one of the most powerful and wealthy women of France. A courtesan, she became Louis XV's official mistress and was fêted as one of France's most beautiful women. On Louis XV's death she became vulnerable to those secretly longing for her downfall. Marie Antoinette had her imprisoned for a year, and in 1793 she was executed by the Revolutionary Tribunal for her aristocratic associations. Joan Haslip's classic biography shares the extraordinary and ultimately tragic story of du Barry's life and, in turn, illustrates the dazzling world of the eighteenth century royal court of France and the horrors of the Revolution.
Memoirs of Madame Du Barry
Author: comtesse Jeanne Bécu Du Barry
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Du Barry, a Biography
Author: Stanley Loomis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758198358
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758198358
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Life and Times of Madame Du Barry
Author: Robert Bruce Douglas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Favorites, Royal
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Prospectus for the book published by Leonard Smithers in 1896.
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ISBN:
Category : Favorites, Royal
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Prospectus for the book published by Leonard Smithers in 1896.
Du Barry
Author: Dorothy De Brissac Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494096205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494096205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
The Life and Times of Madame Du Barry
Author: Robert-B. Douglas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Madame Du Barry
Author: Hugh Noel Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Madame Du Barry by Hugh Noel Williams, first published in 1909, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Madame Du Barry by Hugh Noel Williams, first published in 1909, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Du Barry, an Intimate Biography
Author: Mrs. Dorothy de Brissac Campbell
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
THE STORY of DU BARRY
Author: JAMES L. FORD
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Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Enemies of Versailles
Author: Sally Christie
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501103040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501103040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
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.