Madame: A Life of Henrietta, Daughter of Charles I, and Duchess of Orleans (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Cartwright, Julia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331694752 ISBN 13: 9781331694755

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Madame: A Life of Henrietta, Daughter of Charles I, and Duchess of Orleans Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans, is so interesting and attractive a figure in the history of the seventeenth century, and forms so important a link between Charles II. and Louis XIV., that it is strange to find how little has been written about her in our own time and country. All we have are a few chapters in Mrs Everett-Green's Lives of English Princesses, and in Miss Strickland's Lives of the Four Last Stuart Princesses. Of these two accounts, the former is by far the fullest and most accurate. But the limits of her work naturally prevented Mrs Green from doing justice to her subject, and there are many notable omissions in her history of Madame Henriette. She does not give any of the letters which have been published in Daniel de Cosnac's Memoirs, nor had she access to that portion of Charles II.'s correspondence which is preserved in the French Archives. A few fragments of these letters, addressed by this monarch to his sister between 1660 and 1669, were printed by Sir John Dalrymple in his Memoirs of the Reign of Charles II., and by Mignet in his Negotiations relatives a la Succession d'Espagne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331694752
• ISBN 13: 9781331694755
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440