Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency - Complete Versailles Intrigue, Royal Scandal, and Court Life in Bourbon France
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Verlag
Good PressSeitenzahl
196
Maße (L/B/H)
1/15,2/22,9 cm
Gewicht
273 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-272-9537-1
Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency-Complete offers a vivid, intimate chronicle of Versailles at the height of absolutist splendor and during the uncertain transition after the Sun King's death. Drawn from the sharp observations of court life, the work combines anecdote, political witness, moral judgment, and social portraiture. Its style is unusually direct: candid, satirical, and often startlingly modern in its refusal of ceremonial illusion. Within the literature of memoirs from ancien régime France, it stands beside Saint-Simon as an indispensable counterpoint, less architectonic but more immediate in temperament. Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'Orléans, born Liselotte von der Pfalz, entered the French royal family through her marriage to Philippe d'Orléans, brother of Louis XIV. A German Protestant princess converted to Catholicism for dynastic reasons, she remained both insider and outsider at court. That double position sharpened her perceptions: she saw Versailles not only as a participant in its rituals, but as a foreign-born critic alert to hypocrisy, intrigue, and the costs of power. This book is highly recommended to readers of French history, court culture, women's life-writing, and political memoir. It rewards anyone seeking not merely events, but the texture, manners, vanities, and anxieties of a vanished world.
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