Author: Frank Hamel
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ISBN:
Category : Favorites, Royal
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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The Lady of Beauty (Agnes Sorel)
Author: Frank Hamel
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ISBN:
Category : Favorites, Royal
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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ISBN:
Category : Favorites, Royal
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Lady of Beauty
Author: Hamel Frank
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ISBN: 9780243744572
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Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9780243744572
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The Lady of Beauty
Author: Frank Hamel
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ISBN: 9781331808169
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Excerpt from The Lady of Beauty: Agnes Sorel After studying the statements of the most learned and authoritative historians on the subject of Agnes Sorel, I sympathise with them to some extent in their endeavour to deprive the Lady of Beauty of the exaggerated sway and charm she possesses in the eyes of more romantic writers. On the other hand, I have read all the traditions that have grown up around her with a sense of enjoyment that serious history alone can never give. If in writing her biography I have been unduly influenced by the less important works, I can only say, in extenuation of these lapses from the path of authenticated fact, that the feeling inspired by Agnes Sorel's lovable personality tends to disarm the criticism and defy the analytic judgment which should be indispensable weapons in the historian's armoury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781331808169
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Excerpt from The Lady of Beauty: Agnes Sorel After studying the statements of the most learned and authoritative historians on the subject of Agnes Sorel, I sympathise with them to some extent in their endeavour to deprive the Lady of Beauty of the exaggerated sway and charm she possesses in the eyes of more romantic writers. On the other hand, I have read all the traditions that have grown up around her with a sense of enjoyment that serious history alone can never give. If in writing her biography I have been unduly influenced by the less important works, I can only say, in extenuation of these lapses from the path of authenticated fact, that the feeling inspired by Agnes Sorel's lovable personality tends to disarm the criticism and defy the analytic judgment which should be indispensable weapons in the historian's armoury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Lady of Beauty (Agnes Sorel)
Author: Frank Hamel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Favorites, Royal
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Favorites, Royal
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Agnès Sorel: Mistress of Beauty
Author: HRH Princess Michael of Kent
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1472119142
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
From HRH Princess Michael of Kent, bestselling author of The Queen of Four Kingdoms, comes the extraordinary second volume in the Anjou trilogy. Yolande, the Queen of Four Kingdoms is dead. Agnès Sorel, beautiful, innocent, twenty years old, had arrived a year earlier with the court of Yolande's son, René D'Anjou, and remained with his mother at her request, knowing how much the King of France, her dissolute son-in-law Charles VII, would need wise guidance. As a trusted confidant of Yolande, Agnès captivates everyone she meets, and in her role as a demoiselle to René's wife, Isabelle of Lorraine, Agnès finds herself firmly ensconced in the royal court. Soon though, whispers at court regarding Charles's burgeoning feelings for her begin to grow, and despite her best efforts to resist, Agnès is alarmed to discover that she too is in love. Plagued by guilt but unable to deny her feelings for the King, Agnès is forced to choose between her love for Charles, and her duty to herself . . . Praise for The Queen of Four Kingdoms: 'Meticulously researched and powerfully evoked.' Philippa Gregory 'Takes the reader to the heart of this glamorous, dangerous world, and holds them spellbound. I loved it.' Julian Fellowes 'Riveting . . . spellbinding.' Mail on Sunday 'A page-turning blend of epic battles, betrayal, seduction and heroism.' Hello
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1472119142
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
From HRH Princess Michael of Kent, bestselling author of The Queen of Four Kingdoms, comes the extraordinary second volume in the Anjou trilogy. Yolande, the Queen of Four Kingdoms is dead. Agnès Sorel, beautiful, innocent, twenty years old, had arrived a year earlier with the court of Yolande's son, René D'Anjou, and remained with his mother at her request, knowing how much the King of France, her dissolute son-in-law Charles VII, would need wise guidance. As a trusted confidant of Yolande, Agnès captivates everyone she meets, and in her role as a demoiselle to René's wife, Isabelle of Lorraine, Agnès finds herself firmly ensconced in the royal court. Soon though, whispers at court regarding Charles's burgeoning feelings for her begin to grow, and despite her best efforts to resist, Agnès is alarmed to discover that she too is in love. Plagued by guilt but unable to deny her feelings for the King, Agnès is forced to choose between her love for Charles, and her duty to herself . . . Praise for The Queen of Four Kingdoms: 'Meticulously researched and powerfully evoked.' Philippa Gregory 'Takes the reader to the heart of this glamorous, dangerous world, and holds them spellbound. I loved it.' Julian Fellowes 'Riveting . . . spellbinding.' Mail on Sunday 'A page-turning blend of epic battles, betrayal, seduction and heroism.' Hello
The Lady of Beauty (Agnes Sorel)
Author: Frank Hamel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781375463300
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781375463300
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Agnes Sorel: Mistress of Beauty
Author: Noreen Nash
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781482632699
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The King's eyes went to a young woman across the room. Theextraordinary face startled him. He had never seen such perfection. He couldnot believe that she was real, she must be an apparition, a figment of hisimagination, born out of his starved existence, but she was real and he knew inthat moment that she must be his.So intense would be his love for her that he showered her with jewels,gave her castles and chateaux, and then he made her official mistress, the firstofficial Mistress of France, equal to his wife the Queen. But with it came a price,jealousy -- "Jealousy which is as cruel as the grave."This is a story of love, desire, envy, and jealousy, those qualities of thehuman heart which are timeless and universal.
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ISBN: 9781482632699
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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The King's eyes went to a young woman across the room. Theextraordinary face startled him. He had never seen such perfection. He couldnot believe that she was real, she must be an apparition, a figment of hisimagination, born out of his starved existence, but she was real and he knew inthat moment that she must be his.So intense would be his love for her that he showered her with jewels,gave her castles and chateaux, and then he made her official mistress, the firstofficial Mistress of France, equal to his wife the Queen. But with it came a price,jealousy -- "Jealousy which is as cruel as the grave."This is a story of love, desire, envy, and jealousy, those qualities of thehuman heart which are timeless and universal.
Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France
Author: Kathleen Wellman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300178859
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300178859
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses.
Of Six Mediaeval Women
Author: Alice Kemp-Welch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Formal gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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ISBN:
Category : Formal gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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A King's Mistress
Author: Capefigue (M., Jean Baptiste Honoré Raymond)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chivalry
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chivalry
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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