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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...Europe. In 1837 she married a Captain James, went to India with him, tired of him and returned to England in 1842. She next became a public dancer, performing in London and in cities of the Continent, and in 1846 went to Munich, where she fascinated the old artist-king Louis I of Bavaria who made her his mistress, created her Countess of Landsficld and granted her a large annuity. For a while she also exercised great political power, which she directed against the Jesuits and in favor of liberalism; but with the outbreak of the Revolution of 1848 she was once more set adrift. In London she married a guardsman, Stafford Heald, was soon divorced from him and in 1851 sailed for the United States. After touring through this country with a play called 'Lola Montez in Bavaria,' she went to Australia, returned here, was twice married in California and in 1858 lectured in New York where she settled and spent her last days in rescue work among women. Her writings include 'Lectures,' with an autobiography, and "The Arts of Beauty' (1858). MONTEZUMA, mon-te-zoo'ma (Aztec Montecuhzoma, the severe or sad one: found written also Montecuma, Moctezuma, MutecZuma, Motezumal surnamed Ilhuicamina (archer of heaven) and called Montezuma I, chief, or emperor, of ancient Mexico: b. about 1390; d. 1464. He succeeded his brother Izcohuatl in the chieftainship in 1436, but was not inaugurated until 1440. His success in war with neighboring tribes was great, and he is said to have extended Mexican conquest to the Gulf. With Netzahualcoyotl, chief of Tezcuco, he built, to prevent inundations from Lake Tezcuco, huge damSj the ruins of which in the San Lorenzo valley nave shown them to have been a marvelous feat of engineering. He also rebuilt Tenochtitlan (on...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1236162897
- ISBN 13 9781236162892
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages824
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