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The French Mistress
Author | : Susan Holloway Scott |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2009-07-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781101082188 |
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From the author of The King's Favorite-a new novel based on a dazzling and decadent true story of Restoration England. The daughter of a poor nobleman, Louise leaves the French countryside for the court of King Louis XIV, where she must not only please the tastes of the jaded king, but serve as a spy for France. With few friends, many rivals, and ever-shifting loyalties, Louise learns the perils of her new role. Yet she is too ambitious to be a pawn in the intrigues of others. With the promise of riches, power, and even the love of a king, Louise creates her own destiny in a dance of intrigue between two monarchs-and two countries.
The Creation of the French Royal Mistress
Author | : Tracy Adams,Christine Adams |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2020-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780271086446 |
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Kings throughout medieval and early modern Europe had extraconjugal sexual partners. Only in France, however, did the royal mistress become a quasi-institutionalized political position. This study explores the emergence and development of the position of French royal mistress through detailed portraits of nine of its most significant incumbents: Agnès Sorel, Anne de Pisseleu d’Heilly, Diane de Poitiers, Gabrielle d’Estrées, Françoise Louise de La Baume Le Blanc, Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Françoise d’Aubigné, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, and Jeanne Bécu. Beginning in the fifteenth century, key structures converged to create a space at court for the royal mistress. The first was an idea of gender already in place: that while women were legally inferior to men, they were men’s equals in competence. Because of their legal subordinacy, queens were considered to be the safest regents for their husbands, and, subsequently, the royal mistress was the surest counterpoint to the royal favorite. Second, the Renaissance was a period during which people began to experience space as theatrical. This shift to a theatrical world opened up new ways of imagining political guile, which came to be positively associated with the royal mistress. Still, the role had to be activated by an intelligent, charismatic woman associated with a king who sought women as advisors. The fascinating particulars of each case are covered in the chapters of this book. Thoroughly researched and compellingly narrated, this important study explains why the tradition of a politically powerful royal mistress materialized at the French court, but nowhere else in Europe. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the French monarchy, women and royalty, and gender studies.
The Creation of the French Royal Mistress
Author | : Tracy Adams,Christine Adams |
Publsiher | : Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 0271085975 |
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Explores the sociogenesis and development of the French royal mistress, examining the careers of nine of the most significant holders of that title between 1444 and the final years of the ancien régime.
Charles the Second s French Mistress
Author | : Bryan Bevan |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:251761283 |
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The Mistress of Paris
Author | : Catherine Hewitt |
Publsiher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2017-01-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781250120670 |
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Catherine Hewitt's The Mistress of Paris is a fantastically readable biography of a nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan who harbored an incredible secret. “A gorgeous, smart, ambitious, hard-working, steely autodidact and businesswoman whose product was herself, Valtesse would be totally at home in our self-branding society.” —The New York Times Book Review Comtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was painted by Édouard Manet and inspired Émile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumored affairs with Napoleon III and the future King Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamorous existence hid a dark secret: she was no comtesse. Valtesse was born into abject poverty, raised on a squalid backstreet among the dregs of Parisian society. Yet she transformed herself into an enchantress who possessed a small fortune, three mansions, fabulous carriages, and art the envy of connoisseurs across Europe. A consummate show-woman, she ensured that her life—and even her death—remained shrouded in just enough mystery to keep her audience hungry for more. Spectacularly evoking the sights and sounds of mid- to late nineteenth-century Paris in all its hedonistic glory, Catherine Hewitt’s biography tells, for the first time ever in English, the forgotten story of a remarkable woman who, though her roots were lowly, never stopped aiming high.
The King s Favorite
Author | : Susan Holloway Scott |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2008-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 045122406X |
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The acclaimed author of Duchess and Royal Harlot returns with the unforgettable story of a king's last love and London's darling? BRNell Gwyn has never been a lady, nor does she pretend to be. Blessed with impudent wit and saucy beauty, she swiftly rises from the poverty of Covent Garden to become a sensation in the theater. Still in her teens, she catches the eye of King Charles II, and trades the stage for Whitehall Palace-and the role of royal mistress. Even though she delights the king, she must learn to negotiate the cutthroat royal court, where ambition and lust for power rule the hearts of all around her. For beneath her charm and light-heartedness, Nell has her own ambition-to become no less than the king's favorite.
Mistress of the Revolution
Author | : Catherine Delors |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525950540 |
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Forced to marry an elderly baron instead of a man she loves, impoverished noblewoman Gabrielle de Montserrat is condemned to death at the height of the French Revolution and finds her life placed in the hands of her former lover.
Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France
Author | : Kathleen Wellman |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2013-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300178852 |
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Tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses.