La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France - Tapa dura

Pitts, Vincent J.

 
9780801864667: La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France
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ISBN 10: 0801864666 ISBN 13: 9780801864667
Editorial: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Sinopsis

Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orleans - a cousin to Louis XIV and known in her time and to posterity as "la Grande Mademoiselle" - is still remembered in France today for her unconventional life and heroic deeds. Her "Memoires", first published in 1718 and initially suppressed in France, remains a major source of information on the period's political and social events as well as a page-turning melodrama of court intrigue. Mademoiselle also left behind a number of other works - literary portraits of the prominent personalities of her day, letters, satirical short stories, and two essays on religion - which, together with her memoirs, stand as an unusual achievement for any 17th-century woman, let alone one so high-born and wealthy. This comprehensive biography of this remarkable woman draws on Mademoiselle's own writings as well as Vincent J. Pitts' own command of her times. Viewed through her writings, the events of Mademoiselle's life offer a perspective on several aspects of 17th-century France - the evolution of the Bourbon monarchy over the course of the century, the dynamics of aristocratic resistance to the centralizing power of the state, and the debate over the role of women in public and private life. As both an active participant in and a keen observer of the great events of her time, la Grande Mademoiselle helped define her age even as she challenged the limitations it placed upon her, as this account of her life makes clear.

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Vincent J. Pitts is an independent scholar in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of The Man Who Sacked Rome: Charles de Bourbon, Constable of France, 1490-1527, and France and the German Problem: Politics and Economics in the Locarno Period, 1924-1929. He received his doctorate in European History from Harvard University.

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Editorial
Johns Hopkins University Press
Año de publicación
2000
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ISBN 10 
0801864666
ISBN 13 
9780801864667
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Número de páginas
384
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