Author: Bret (M., Antoine)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Ninon de Lenclos
Author: Bret (M., Antoine)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Age of Conversation
Author: Benedetta Craveri
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590172148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Now in paperback, an award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between the reign of Louis XIII and the Revolution, French aristocratic society developed an art of living based on a refined code of good manners. Conversation, which began as a way of passing time, eventually became the central ritual of social life. In the salons, freed from the rigidity of court life, it was women who dictated the rules and presided over exchanges among socialites, writers, theologians, and statesmen. They contributed decisively to the development of the modern French language, new literary forms, and debates over philosophical and scientific ideas. With a cast of characters both famous and unknown, ranging from the Marquise de Rambouillet to Madame de Sta‘l, and including figures like Ninon de Lenclos, the Marquise de Sevigne, and Madame de Lafayette, as well as Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Diderot, and Voltaire, Benedetta Craveri traces the history of this worldly society that carried the art of sociability to its supreme perfection–and ultimately helped bring on the Revolution that swept it all away.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590172148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Now in paperback, an award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between the reign of Louis XIII and the Revolution, French aristocratic society developed an art of living based on a refined code of good manners. Conversation, which began as a way of passing time, eventually became the central ritual of social life. In the salons, freed from the rigidity of court life, it was women who dictated the rules and presided over exchanges among socialites, writers, theologians, and statesmen. They contributed decisively to the development of the modern French language, new literary forms, and debates over philosophical and scientific ideas. With a cast of characters both famous and unknown, ranging from the Marquise de Rambouillet to Madame de Sta‘l, and including figures like Ninon de Lenclos, the Marquise de Sevigne, and Madame de Lafayette, as well as Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Diderot, and Voltaire, Benedetta Craveri traces the history of this worldly society that carried the art of sociability to its supreme perfection–and ultimately helped bring on the Revolution that swept it all away.
Ninon de Lanclos
Author: Antoine Vellechevreux
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782359240511
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 10
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782359240511
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 10
Book Description
Paris on the Seine
Author: Blake Ehrlich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Seven mile tour of Paris along the banks of the Seine, with historical anecdotes about the points of interest.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Seven mile tour of Paris along the banks of the Seine, with historical anecdotes about the points of interest.
Gourmet
Author: Pearl Violette Metzelthin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
A History of Human Beauty
Author: Arthur Marwick
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826439454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
If Cleopatra's nose had been half an inch longer, neither Caesar nor Mark Antony would have fallen in love with her. It: A History of Human Beauty treats outstanding physical attractiveness as a quality or possession, comparable to power, intelligence, strength, wealth, education or family, that had a marked effect on history. Beauty in men and women opened opportunities to its possessors not available to the ordinary looking or ugly. While in the past women have had to use the lure of sex to achieve power or wealth, epitomised by royal mistresses or the Grandes Horizontales of the nineteenth century, modern film stars (male and female) can acquire great wealth simply by the use of their images, while attractiveness on television is an essential modern qualification for power, as shown by Ronald Reagan and Tony Blair.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826439454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
If Cleopatra's nose had been half an inch longer, neither Caesar nor Mark Antony would have fallen in love with her. It: A History of Human Beauty treats outstanding physical attractiveness as a quality or possession, comparable to power, intelligence, strength, wealth, education or family, that had a marked effect on history. Beauty in men and women opened opportunities to its possessors not available to the ordinary looking or ugly. While in the past women have had to use the lure of sex to achieve power or wealth, epitomised by royal mistresses or the Grandes Horizontales of the nineteenth century, modern film stars (male and female) can acquire great wealth simply by the use of their images, while attractiveness on television is an essential modern qualification for power, as shown by Ronald Reagan and Tony Blair.
Darconville's Cat
Author: Alexander Theroux
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
The main story is a love affair between Alaric Darconville, an English professor at a Virginia women's college, and one of his students, Isabel, but includes long sections on other topics, including a general satire of the world of American academics.
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
The main story is a love affair between Alaric Darconville, an English professor at a Virginia women's college, and one of his students, Isabel, but includes long sections on other topics, including a general satire of the world of American academics.
Ninon de Lenclos. (Compiled and Translated from the Most Authentic French Sources.).
Author: Ninon de LENCLOS
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Who's who in the Theatre
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
Book Description
Issues for 1914-67 include "Notable productions and important revivals of the London stage from the earliest times."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
Book Description
Issues for 1914-67 include "Notable productions and important revivals of the London stage from the earliest times."
A Dictionary of European Literature
Author: Laurie Magnus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : European literature
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : European literature
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description