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Author : Earl of March
Release : 1911
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Book Synopsis A duke and his friends, vol.1, by the earl of march by : Earl of March
Download or read book A duke and his friends, vol.1, by the earl of march written by Earl of March. This book was released on 1911. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Earl of March
Release : 1911
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Book Synopsis A duke and his friends, vol.2, by the earl of march by : Earl of March
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Author : Lucy Worsley
Release : 2023-10-03
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Courtiers by : Lucy Worsley
Download or read book The Courtiers written by Lucy Worsley. This book was released on 2023-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the palace's glory days came between 1714 and 1760, during the reigns of George I and II . In the eighteenth century, this palace was a world of skulduggery, intrigue, politicking, etiquette, wigs, and beauty spots, where fans whistled open like switchblades and unusual people were kept as curiosities. Lucy Worsley's The Courtiers charts the trajectory of the fantastically quarrelsome Hanovers and the last great gasp of British court life. Structured around the paintings of courtiers and servants that line the walls of the King's Staircase of Kensington Palace-paintings you can see at the palace today-The Courtiers goes behind closed doors to meet a pushy young painter, a maid of honor with a secret marriage, a vice chamberlain with many vices, a bedchamber woman with a violent husband, two aging royal mistresses, and many more. The result is an indelible portrait of court life leading up to the famous reign of George III , and a feast for both Anglophiles and lovers of history and royalty.
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Release : 1830
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Book Synopsis History of Scotland. By Sir Walter Scott. In Two Volumes. Vol. 1. [-2.] by :
Download or read book History of Scotland. By Sir Walter Scott. In Two Volumes. Vol. 1. [-2.] written by . This book was released on 1830. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Buchan
Release : 2018-09-06
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis John Law by : James Buchan
Download or read book John Law written by James Buchan. This book was released on 2018-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it a warrant for his arrest. On the continent he lurched from one money-making scheme to the next - selling insurance against losing lottery tickets in Holland, advising the Duke of Savoy - amassing a fortune of some £80,000. But for his next trick he had grander ambitions. When Louis XIV died, leaving a thoroughly bankrupt France to his five-year-old heir, Law gained the ear of the Regent, Philippe D'Orleans. In the years that followed, Law's financial wizardry transformed the fortunes of France, enriching speculators and investors across the continent, and he was made Controller-General of Finances, effectively becoming the French Prime Minister. But the fall from grace that was to follow was every bit as spectacular as his meteoric rise. John Law, by a biographer of Adam Smith and the author of Frozen Desire and Capital of the Mind, dramatises the life of one of the most inventive financiers in history, a man who was born before his time and in whose day the word millionaire came to be coined.
