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Hardback. Condition: Good. 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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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The duc de Saint-Simon's memoirs of the last decades of Louis XIV's reign and the regency of Philippe d'Orleans are considered a masterpiece of the genre and one of the glories of French literature. His accounts of the dramatic events he witnessed have informed historians for generations, while his literary portraits have influenced French authors from Sainte-Beuve to Proust. In 1721 Saint-Simon travelled to Spain as Ambassador Extraordinary to solicit the hand of a Spanish princess for the young king Louis XV. Although his mission comes very late in his long narrative, that experience looms large in his account of earlier events, hidden in plain sight, and enriched by it. The nineteenth-century essayist Sainte-Beuve dubbed Saint-Simon 'the little duke with the penetrating eye'. Readers of this book can decide for themselves how penetrating an eye the little duke could bring to bear on his contemporaries, and on himself.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. 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.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The duc de Saint-Simon's memoirs of the last decades of Louis XIV's reign and the regency of Philippe d'Orleans are considered a masterpiece of the genre and one of the glories of French literature. His accounts of the dramatic events he witnessed have informed historians for generations, while his literary portraits have influenced French authors from Sainte-Beuve to Proust. In 1721 Saint-Simon travelled to Spain as Ambassador Extraordinary to solicit the hand of a Spanish princess for the young king Louis XV. Although his mission comes very late in his long narrative, that experience looms large in his account of earlier events, hidden in plain sight, and enriched by it. The nineteenth-century essayist Sainte-Beuve dubbed Saint-Simon 'the little duke with the penetrating eye'. Readers of this book can decide for themselves how penetrating an eye the little duke could bring to bear on his contemporaries, and on himself.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, (2000). First Edition, First Printing. Large 8vo. xiv,368pp, Index, Bibliography. Tan cloth, spine letters gilt. Fine condition in fine dj. 16 illustrations from historical sources. Cousin to Louis XIV, Anne-Marie-Louise D'Orleans, "La Grande Mademoiselle", is "still remembered in France today for her unconventional life and heroic deeds" (dj). ISBN 0801864666; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 368 pages.…

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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Clean and solid. ; B&W and color illustrations; 8vo; 208 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 1st printing. Crisp and unmarked in full cloth binding. 367pp. In a very nice jacket. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover in dust jacket, 2000, 1st edition/1st printing, No marks/tears/creases, small coffee stains along bottom edge of rear jacket panel; Fine/ Near Fine . We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble-wrap the book and ship it in a BOX with delivery confirmation/tracking.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Hardcover in dust jacket. First Printing. xiv, 367 pages, illustrated. Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket.

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