Royalty category: 1453 books

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Louis XII

Le père du peuple

by L. TODIERE
Language: French
Release Date: March 19, 2013

Ce livre raconte la vie et la manière dont Louis XII, roi de France, a traversé son époque et laissé une empreinte indélébile dans le coeur des Français. En effet le règne de Louis XII, un des rois préféré des français,...
Cover of Le Calvaire de Louis XVI
by Henri ROBERT
Language: French
Release Date: April 7, 2013

Orphelin à 11 ans, marié à 16 ans, Louis XVI n'a que 20 ans lorsqu'il devient Roi de France le 10 mai 1774 à la mort de son grand-père Louis XV. Le 21 janvier 1793, Louis XVI est décapité sous la guillotine révolutionnaire. Que s'est-il passé...
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Saint Louis

ou l'Esprit de Croisade

by Francis Jammes
Language: French
Release Date: January 31, 2014

Ce qui rend le roi Louis IX unique, c'est qu'il fut l'unique saint du Trône de France. Et, pour que l'Église, sept ans seulement après sa mort, ait statué d'une manière définitive et l'ait placé dans le Ciel, nous n'avons aucun scrupule à essayer...
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Louis XVIII

La Restauration Tome 1

by Pierre de La Gorce
Language: French
Release Date: June 20, 2013

La Restauration, cette période de notre histoire qui fait suite à la chute du Premier Empire et voit le retour des Bourbons sur le trône de France, est une période d’apaisement et d’enrichissement pour la France. Bien que malade et impotent, Louis XVIII, frère...
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La Mort des Rois de France

depuis François Ier jusqu'à la Révolution Française

by Dr. Auguste Corlieu
Language: French
Release Date: October 10, 2014

De quoi sont morts nos rois ? Quelles furent les causes fatales, les hérédités, les accidents, qui mirent fin aux règnes de nos monarques français ? Comment se sont déroulées ces agonies royales ? C'est ce que tente de nous expliquer...
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Henriette de France

Reine d'Angleterre (1609-1669)

by Henri Carré
Language: French
Release Date: December 11, 2014

Henriette n'a que six mois lorsque son père, le roi Henri IV meurt assassiné en 1610. C'est sous la régence de sa mère, Marie de Médicis, qu'elle grandit à la Cour de France aux côtés de son frère le futur Louis XIII. Elle n'a pas encore...
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by Comte Fleury
Language: French
Release Date: April 24, 2013

Entre son épouse Marie Leckzinska et ses favorites « officielles » comme la marquise de Pompadour et la comtesse du Barry, Louis XV n'aura de cesse d'entretenir des « petites maîtresses », jeunes filles choisies pour leur beauté et leur esprit, qu'il n'hésitait...
Cover of Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
by Queen Liliuokalani
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011

The Hawaiian kingdom's last monarch wrote her biography in 1897, the year before the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands by the United States. Her story covers six decades of island history told from the viewpoint of a major historical figure. Introduction by Glen Grant.
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Augustus

First Emperor of Rome

by Adrian Goldsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014

Caesar Augustus’ story, one of the most riveting in western history, is filled with drama and contradiction, risky gambles and unexpected success. He began as a teenage warlord, whose only claim to power was as the heir of the murdered Julius Caesar. Mark Antony dubbed him “a boy who owes everything...
Cover of The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens
by Mike Ashley
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012

This book includes more than 1000 monarchs who have at some time ruled all or part of Britain. This includes the host of tribal and Saxon rulers prior to 1066 as well as famous monarchs such as Richard III, Elizabeth I and Charles II and all the rulers of Scotland and Wales. The book gives full details...
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Queen Victoria’s Lovers

Erotomania & Fantasy

by Fred Vermorel
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014

The young Queen Victoria was a potent sex symbol, attracting outlandish fantasists. She also attracted stalkers and other unwanted attention seekers. The Victorian Press sardonically dubbed such people “Victoria’s lovers.” Victorian psychiatrists labelled them, “erotomaniacs.” Drawing on...
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by Alison Plowden
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011

The first volume of Plowden's acclaimed Elizabethan quartet charts the first 25 years of Elizabeth's life Alison Plowden's captivating portrait of the young Elizabeth Tudor, bringing to life her many identities as ruler, woman, and politician, is a triumph of narrative history. Elizabeth I is perhaps...
Cover of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire: Ultimate Fan Guide
by Kimberly Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire is the great-great-great-great aunt of Princess Diana and a relative of Baby Cambridge.This ultimate fan guide celebrates Georgiana's life as loving mother, entertaining friend, de facto politician, and Empress of Fashion. It includes reviews and an "Absolute...
Cover of The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russia Revolution
by Robert Service
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

A riveting account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of the finest Russian historians writing today. In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from...
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