Memoirs of Madame Campan on Marie Antoinette and Her Court
Author | : Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Madame Campan |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465537236 |
Author | : Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Aristocracy (Social class) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Caroline Weber |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2007-10-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1429936479 |
In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked. Weber surveys Marie Antoinette's "Revolution in Dress," covering each phase of the queen's tumultuous life, beginning with the young girl, struggling to survive Versailles's rigid traditions of royal glamour (twelve-foot-wide hoopskirts, whalebone corsets that crushed her organs). As queen, Marie Antoinette used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power and wage war against her enemies. Gradually, however, she began to lose her hold on the French when she started to adopt "unqueenly" outfits (the provocative chemise) that, surprisingly, would be adopted by the revolutionaries who executed her. Weber's queen is sublime, human, and surprising: a sometimes courageous monarch unwilling to allow others to determine her destiny. The paradox of her tragic story, according to Weber, is that fashion—the vehicle she used to secure her triumphs—was also the means of her undoing. Weber's book is not only a stylish and original addition to Marie Antoinette scholarship, but also a moving, revelatory reinterpretation of one of history's most controversial figures.
Author | : Marie-Thérèse Charlotte Angoulême (duchesse d') |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Madame de Rémusat (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
Author | : François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Authors, French |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hourly History |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2018-08-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781724855961 |
Marie AntoinetteHer name was Marie Antoinette. She was the last queen of France and among the most notorious of royalty ever to wear the crown. But besides the tales that would make the national enquirer blush, just what do we know about Marie Antoinette? While the peasants of France were starving for lack of bread did she really say, "Let them eat cake!"? Or was it all a carefully crafted smear campaign? Inside you will read about...✓ Groomed to Become Queen ✓ The Failed Wedding Night ✓ Madame Deficit ✓ The Roots of Revolution ✓ Under the Protection of Lafayette ✓ The Last French King and Queen And much more! Animosity against Marie Antoinette, the Austrian-born woman that many French citizens viewed as a transplanted upstart, had been brewing for several years. But was there any truth to their claims of the queen squandering resources and neglecting the lives of her subjects? In this book we seek to cut through centuries of bias and preconceived notions when it comes to Marie Antoinette. Never mind what you may think you know about this sensational sovereign, here we seek to find the real person behind the historical quips and catchphrases. Come along as we rediscover the life and legend of the ill-fated last queen of France-Marie Antoinette.
Author | : Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1823 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |