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A taste for comfort and status : a bourgeois family in eighteenth-century France.
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ISBN: 0271019565 0271019557 Year: 2000 Publisher: University Park Pennsylvania State University Press


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Poverty, charity, and motherhood : maternal societies in nineteenth-century France
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ISBN: 1283028700 0252090012 9786613028709 9780252090011 9780252035470 025203547X 9781283028707 6613028703 Year: 2010 Publisher: Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press,


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Prague
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ISBN: 1850433127 9781850433125 Year: 1991 Publisher: S.l. : I.B. Tauris,

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The creation of the French royal mistress : from Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry
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ISBN: 9780271085975 0271085975 9780271085982 0271086424 0271086440 Year: 2020 Publisher: University Park: Pennsylvania state university press,

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"Kings throughout medieval and early modern Europe had extraconjugal sexual partners. Only in France, however, did the royal mistress become a quasi-institutionalized political position. Tracy Adams and Christine Adams explore the emergence and evolution of the role played by the French royal mistress through detailed portraits of nine powerful women : Agnès Sorel, Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Diane de Poitiers, Gabrielle d'Estrées, Françoise Louise de La Baume Le Blanc, Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Françoise d'Aubigné, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, and Jeanne Bécu. Beginning in the fifteenth century, key structures converged to create a space at court for the royal mistress. The first was an idea of gender already in place : that while women were legally inferior to men, they were men's equals in competence. Because of their legal subordinacy, queens were considered to be the safest regent for their husbands, and, subsequently, the royal mistress was the surest counterpoint to the royal favorite. Second, the Renaissance was a period during which people began to experience space as theatrical. This shift to a theatrical world opened up new ways of imagining political guile, which came to be positively associated with the royal mistress. Still, the role had to be activated by an intelligent, charismatic woman associated with a king who sought women as advisors. This book covers the fascinating particulars of their histories at court. Thoroughly researched and compellingly narrated, this important study explains why the tradition of a politically powerful royal mistress materialized at the French court, but nowhere else in Europe. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the French monarchy, women and royalty, and gender studies


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Female beauty systems : beauty as social capital in Western Europe and the United States, Middle Ages to the present
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ISBN: 1443881430 9781443881432 9781443878241 1443878243 Year: 2015 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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Female beauty systems everywhere are complex, integrating markers of class, status, power, and sexuality to perform the fundamental function of sorting individuals into categories of "more" or "less" desirable. Heirs to the tradition of courtly love, modern western female beauty systems tend to share the norm of man as pursuer, woman as pursued, having developed around the trope of the madly-desiring poet or knight supplicating his aloof and lovely lady for her favor. The apparent longevity of the courtly love tradition raises the question of whether the way in which it structures male desire


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The creation of the French royal mistress : from Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry
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ISBN: 9780271085982 Year: 2020 Publisher: University Park (Pa.) : Pennsylvania state university press,

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"Explores the sociogenesis and development of the French royal mistress, examining the careers of nine of the most significant holders of that title between 1444 and the final years of the ancien régime"--


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The Creation of the French Royal Mistress
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ISBN: 9780271086446 Year: 2020 Publisher: University Park, PA

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The Creation of the French Royal Mistress : From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry
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ISBN: 9780271086446 Year: 2020 Publisher: University Park, Pa Penn State University Press

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Worry, worry, go away! : a kid's book about worry and anxiety
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ISBN: 1497692962 Year: 2012 Publisher: St. Meinrad, Indiana : One Caring Place : Abbey Press,

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Learning to be a good friend : guidebook for kids
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ISBN: 1497682967 Year: 2004 Publisher: St. Meinrad, Indiana : One Caring Place,

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