Autobiography: A Collection Of The Most Instructive And Amusing Lives Ever Published - Softcover

Treacher And Arnot Whittaker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371444365 ISBN 13: 9780371444368

Publisher: HardPress, 1830

Synopsis

Autobiography: A Collection Of The Most Instructive And Amusing Lives Ever Published. This volume presents the Memoirs of Madame Du Barri, a central figure at the court of Louis XV who rises to influence, falls from favour, and narrates a vivid panorama of late 18th?century France. The narrative follows her life from the height of Versailles through exile at Pont aux Dames and later residence at Luciennes and Saint?Vrain, detailing intimate interactions with Marie Antoinette, the duc de Cossé, Maurepas, Mirepoix, Grammont, Polignac, Voltaire, Mirabeau, and Beaumarchais. It blends personal memoir with political history, recounting the death of Louis XV, ministerial reshuffles, the American War, the awakening of revolutionary pressures, the Diamond Necklace affair, and the social intrigues that surrounded the French monarchy on the eve of the Revolution. The author’s voice—witty, candid, and occasionally caustic—offers a rare insider’s view of court life, friendship and betrayal, and the costs of power, love, and ambition in a doomed era.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 1830
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371444365
• ISBN 13: 9780371444368
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 371