Author: Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465521380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete: Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen
Author: Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465521380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465521380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete
Author: Mme. Campan
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
In this book, Madame Campan, a lady-in-waiting in the service of Marie Antoinette, shares her experiences of life in the Royal Court of the queen in the years preceding the queen's execution amid the carnage of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
In this book, Madame Campan, a lady-in-waiting in the service of Marie Antoinette, shares her experiences of life in the Royal Court of the queen in the years preceding the queen's execution amid the carnage of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 1
Author: Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete
Author: Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041636621
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041636621
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen
Author: Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Queen of Fashion
Author: Caroline Weber
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429936479
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked. Weber surveys Marie Antoinette's "Revolution in Dress," covering each phase of the queen's tumultuous life, beginning with the young girl, struggling to survive Versailles's rigid traditions of royal glamour (twelve-foot-wide hoopskirts, whalebone corsets that crushed her organs). As queen, Marie Antoinette used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power and wage war against her enemies. Gradually, however, she began to lose her hold on the French when she started to adopt "unqueenly" outfits (the provocative chemise) that, surprisingly, would be adopted by the revolutionaries who executed her. Weber's queen is sublime, human, and surprising: a sometimes courageous monarch unwilling to allow others to determine her destiny. The paradox of her tragic story, according to Weber, is that fashion—the vehicle she used to secure her triumphs—was also the means of her undoing. Weber's book is not only a stylish and original addition to Marie Antoinette scholarship, but also a moving, revelatory reinterpretation of one of history's most controversial figures.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429936479
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked. Weber surveys Marie Antoinette's "Revolution in Dress," covering each phase of the queen's tumultuous life, beginning with the young girl, struggling to survive Versailles's rigid traditions of royal glamour (twelve-foot-wide hoopskirts, whalebone corsets that crushed her organs). As queen, Marie Antoinette used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power and wage war against her enemies. Gradually, however, she began to lose her hold on the French when she started to adopt "unqueenly" outfits (the provocative chemise) that, surprisingly, would be adopted by the revolutionaries who executed her. Weber's queen is sublime, human, and surprising: a sometimes courageous monarch unwilling to allow others to determine her destiny. The paradox of her tragic story, according to Weber, is that fashion—the vehicle she used to secure her triumphs—was also the means of her undoing. Weber's book is not only a stylish and original addition to Marie Antoinette scholarship, but also a moving, revelatory reinterpretation of one of history's most controversial figures.
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France; Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen
Author: Jeanne Louise Henriette (Genet) Campan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387029225
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387029225
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Court Memoirs of France Series (Complete)
Author: Various
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465521771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 5271
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465521771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 5271
Book Description
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 7
Author: Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
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Pages :
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The Memoirs of Marie Antoinette (Complete)
Author: Madame Campan
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465537236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465537236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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