Du Barry, an Intimate Biography
Author: Mrs. Dorothy de Brissac Campbell
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 376
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Author: Mrs. Dorothy de Brissac Campbell
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joan Haslip
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Published: 2005-08-06
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781850437536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn 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.
Author: Adeline McCall
Publisher:
Published: 1935
Total Pages: 362
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 1826
ISBN-13: 9780835216036
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book is a companion volume to Biographical books, 1950-1980, completing a comprehensive one hundred and five year bibliography of biographical and autobiographical works published or distributed in the United States"--Preface.
Author: Carl F. Klinck
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1976-12-15
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1487590997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHailed as a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship when it was originally published in 1965, the Literary History of Canada is now being reissued, revised and enlarged, in three volumes. This major effort of a large group of scholars working in the field of English-language Canadian literature provides a comprehensive, up-to-date reference work. It has already proven itself invaluable as a source of information on authors, genres, and literary trends and influences. It represents a positive attempt to give a history of Canada in terms of writings which deserve attention because of significant thought, form, and use of language. Volume 3 has been newly written for this edition of the History, and covers the years from about 1960 to 1974. The contributors to this volume are Claude Bissell, Desmond Pacey, Lauriat Lane, jr, Michael S. Cross, Thomas A. Goudge, John Webster Grant, John H. Chapman, William E. Swinton, Henry B. Mayo, Malcolm Ross, Brandon Conron, Clara Thomas, Sheila A. Egoff, John Ripley, William H. New, George Woodcock, and Northrop Frye.
Author: Theodore Zeldin
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-12-31
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1448161991
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The book that changed my life... a constant companion' Bill Bailey 'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade' The Daily Telegraph This extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen. Portraits of living people and historical figures are placed alongside each other as Zeldin discusses how men and women have lost and regained hope; how they have learnt to have interesting conversations; how some have acquired an immunity to loneliness; how new forms of love and desire have been invented; how respect has become more valued than power; how the art of escaping from one's troubles has developed; why even the privileged are often gloomy; and why parents and children are changing their minds about what they want from each other.
Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962). University Extension Division
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Published: 1932
Total Pages: 728
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andre Castelot
Publisher: Ishi Press
Published: 2009-11
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9784871878548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the biography of one of the most tragic women in History. It is the story of a frivolous young girl who threw wild parties and spent a lot of her husband's money and for that reason, and that reason alone, she had her head chopped off in public. The back cover photo here shows Marie Antoinette being given her last rights by a clergyman as she was waiting before the guillotine for the executioners to cut off her head, and while a crowd of thousands watched. Her last words were one of apology to one of her executioners, when she accidentally stepped on his foot. All of the events of the Life of Marie Antoinette are brilliantly explained in this biography by Andre Castelot. The most haunting and harrowing pages of the biography are Castelot's darkly etched picture of the Queen in the culminating moments of her life. Perhaps it is not in the least a paradox that one of the most arrantly self-indulgent women should, in her adversity, provide one of the most memorable images of mother love."
Author: Cornelia Spencer Love
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Published: 1936
Total Pages: 60
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