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  • Marie Antoinette's World

    Intrigue, Infidelity, and Adultery in Versailles

    par Will Bashor ...
    This riveting book explores the little-known intimate life of Marie Antoinette and her milieu in a world filled with intrigue, infidelity, adultery, and sexually transmitted diseases. Will Bashor reveals the intrigue and debauchery of the Bourbon kings from Louis XIII to Louis XV, which were closely intertwined with the expansion of Versailles from a simple hunting lodge to a luxurious and ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days

    Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie

    par Will Bashor ...
    This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family’s arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the “waiting room for the guillotine” because prisoners only spent a day or two here before their conviction and subsequent execution. The ex-queen surely knew her days were ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Marie Antoinette's Head

    The Royal Hairdresser, the Queen, and the Revolution

    par Will Bashor ...
    Marie Antoinette has remained atop the popular cultural landscape for centuries for the daring in style and fashion that she brought to 18th century France. For the better part of the queen’s reign, one man was entrusted with the sole responsibility of ensuring that her coiffure was at its most ostentatious best. Who was this minister of fashion who wielded such tremendous influence over the queen ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Richard III and the Princes in the Tower

    par Alison Weir ...
    Includes a new foreword by the authorThe story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the boy-king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, is one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. It is a tale with profound moral and social consequences, rich in drama, intrigue, treason, scandal and violence.In this gripping book Alison Weir re-examines all the ... En savoir plus

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  • Secret Lives of the Tsars

    Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia

    “Michael Farquhar doesn’t write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin’s smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.”—Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnistScandal! Intrigue! Cossacks! Here the world’s most engaging royal historian chronicles the world’s most fascinating ... En savoir plus

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  • Maria Theresa of Austria

    This book contains the biography of Maria Theresa of Austria, the only female ruler of the Habsburg Dominions written by J. Alexander Mahan, and would make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in this fascinating woman. ... En savoir plus

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  • The Kings & Queens of Scotland

    par Timothy Venning ...
    The kingdom of Scots was the last of the non-Anglo-Saxon states of Britain to survive as a political entity. Alone of the ‘Celtic’ nations, it was not absorbed into England by conquest. James VI of Scotland came to the throne of England in 1603, and when union with England finally came in 1707 during the reign of Queen Anne, it was technically on equal terms. This success owed much to the ... En savoir plus

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  • Philip II of Spain

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    FOR three hundred years a bitter controversy has raged around the actions of Philip II. of Spain. Until our own times no attempt even had been made to write his life-history from an impartial point of view. He had been alternately deified and execrated, until through the mists of time and prejudice he loomed rather as the permanent embodiment of a system than as an individual man swayed by ... En savoir plus

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  • British Legends: The Life and Legacy of King Henry VIII

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  • Marie Antoinette's Confidante

    The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

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    The true story of the woman who befriended the last queen of France—and the price she paid for her devotion.Perhaps no one knew Marie Antoinette better than one of her closest confidantes, Marie Thérèse, the Princess de Lamballe. The princess became superintendent of the queen's household in 1774, and through her relationship with Marie Antoinette, she gained a unique perspective of the lavishness ... En savoir plus

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  • The Spanish Resurgence, 1713-1748

    Collections series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    A major reassessment of Philip V's leadership and what it meant for the modern Spanish state Often dismissed as ineffective, indolent, and dominated by his second wife, Philip V of Spain (1700–1746), the first Bourbon king, was in fact the greatest threat to peace in Europe during his reign. Under his rule, Spain was a dynamic force and expansionist power, especially in the Mediterranean world. ... En savoir plus

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