Author: Joan DeJean
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632864746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
From the author of How Paris Became Paris, a sweeping history of high finance, the origins of high fashion, and a pair of star-crossed lovers in 18th-century France. Paris, 1719. The stock market is surging and the world's first millionaires are buying everything in sight. Against this backdrop, two families, the Magoulets and the Chevrots, rose to prominence only to plummet in the first stock market crash. One family built its name on the burgeoning financial industry, the other as master embroiderers for Queen Marie-Thérèse and her husband, King Louis XIV. Both patriarchs were ruthless money-mongers, determined to strike it rich by arranging marriages for their children. But in a Shakespearean twist, two of their children fell in love. To remain together, Louise Magoulet and Louis Chevrot fought their fathers' rage and abuse. A real-life heroine, Louise took on Magoulet, Chevrot, the police, an army regiment, and the French Indies Company to stay with the man she loved. Following these families from 1600 until the Revolution of 1789, Joan DeJean recreates the larger-than-life personalities of Versailles, where displaying wealth was a power game; the sordid cells of the Bastille; the Louisiana territory, where Frenchwomen were forcibly sent to marry colonists; and the legendary "Wall Street of Paris," Rue Quincampoix, a world of high finance uncannily similar to what we know now. The Queen's Embroiderer is both a story of star-crossed love in the most beautiful city in the world and a cautionary tale of greed and the dangerous lure of windfall profits. And every bit of it is true.
The Queen's Embroiderer
Author: Joan DeJean
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632864746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
From the author of How Paris Became Paris, a sweeping history of high finance, the origins of high fashion, and a pair of star-crossed lovers in 18th-century France. Paris, 1719. The stock market is surging and the world's first millionaires are buying everything in sight. Against this backdrop, two families, the Magoulets and the Chevrots, rose to prominence only to plummet in the first stock market crash. One family built its name on the burgeoning financial industry, the other as master embroiderers for Queen Marie-Thérèse and her husband, King Louis XIV. Both patriarchs were ruthless money-mongers, determined to strike it rich by arranging marriages for their children. But in a Shakespearean twist, two of their children fell in love. To remain together, Louise Magoulet and Louis Chevrot fought their fathers' rage and abuse. A real-life heroine, Louise took on Magoulet, Chevrot, the police, an army regiment, and the French Indies Company to stay with the man she loved. Following these families from 1600 until the Revolution of 1789, Joan DeJean recreates the larger-than-life personalities of Versailles, where displaying wealth was a power game; the sordid cells of the Bastille; the Louisiana territory, where Frenchwomen were forcibly sent to marry colonists; and the legendary "Wall Street of Paris," Rue Quincampoix, a world of high finance uncannily similar to what we know now. The Queen's Embroiderer is both a story of star-crossed love in the most beautiful city in the world and a cautionary tale of greed and the dangerous lure of windfall profits. And every bit of it is true.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632864746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
From the author of How Paris Became Paris, a sweeping history of high finance, the origins of high fashion, and a pair of star-crossed lovers in 18th-century France. Paris, 1719. The stock market is surging and the world's first millionaires are buying everything in sight. Against this backdrop, two families, the Magoulets and the Chevrots, rose to prominence only to plummet in the first stock market crash. One family built its name on the burgeoning financial industry, the other as master embroiderers for Queen Marie-Thérèse and her husband, King Louis XIV. Both patriarchs were ruthless money-mongers, determined to strike it rich by arranging marriages for their children. But in a Shakespearean twist, two of their children fell in love. To remain together, Louise Magoulet and Louis Chevrot fought their fathers' rage and abuse. A real-life heroine, Louise took on Magoulet, Chevrot, the police, an army regiment, and the French Indies Company to stay with the man she loved. Following these families from 1600 until the Revolution of 1789, Joan DeJean recreates the larger-than-life personalities of Versailles, where displaying wealth was a power game; the sordid cells of the Bastille; the Louisiana territory, where Frenchwomen were forcibly sent to marry colonists; and the legendary "Wall Street of Paris," Rue Quincampoix, a world of high finance uncannily similar to what we know now. The Queen's Embroiderer is both a story of star-crossed love in the most beautiful city in the world and a cautionary tale of greed and the dangerous lure of windfall profits. And every bit of it is true.
Medieval Futures
Author: John Anthony Burrow
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0851157793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Studies of varied ways in which medieval people imagined the future, reasons behind such representations, and the implications for an understanding of medieval society as a whole.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0851157793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Studies of varied ways in which medieval people imagined the future, reasons behind such representations, and the implications for an understanding of medieval society as a whole.
The First Volume (for the Year 1757) of a Catalogue of the Libraries of Many Eminent Persons, Lately Deceas'd; ... Which Will Begin to be Sold this Day, and Continue Selling to the First of January 1758, ... at T. Osborne's and J. Shipton's ...
Author: T. Osborne and J. Shipton (Booksellers)
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Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Recueil des anciens édits et ordonnances du Roy concernant les domaines et droits de la Couronne ...
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Recueil des anciens édits et ordonnances du roy concernant les domaines & droits de la couronne
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Catalogue of the Library of Parliament
Author: Canada. Library of Parliament
Publisher: The Library
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Publisher: The Library
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Parlement du Canada
Author: Canada. Parlement. Bibliothèque
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Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Recueil des anciens édits et ordonnances du Roy
Author: France
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Category : Prerogative, Royal
Languages : fr
Pages : 966
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Category : Prerogative, Royal
Languages : fr
Pages : 966
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A Survey of Library Needs in European History
Author: Fredric L. Cheyette
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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