"In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria" Topic
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| Tango01 | 04 Sep 2021 10:12 p.m. PST |
Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters "Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of uncommon strength and vision, the only woman ever to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg Empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor-general of the Austrian Netherlands; spirited Maria Carolina, the resolute queen of Naples; and the youngest, Marie Antoinette, the glamorous, tragic queen of France, and perhaps the most famous princess in history. Unfolding against an irresistible backdrop of brilliant courts from Vienna to Versailles, embracing the exotic lure of Naples and Sicily, this epic history of Maria Theresa and her daughters is a tour de force of desire, adventure, ambition, treachery, sorrow, and glory.::"
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| BillyNM | 04 Sep 2021 10:22 p.m. PST |
Sounds a bit melodramatic – anyone read this? |
| Tango01 | 04 Sep 2021 10:47 p.m. PST |
Have you visit the link?…
You can buy the book on September 21st… (smile)
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| Cerdic | 05 Sep 2021 2:56 a.m. PST |
Does sound a touch 'breathless', don't it? No mention of Enlightened Despotism in that blurb… |
| mildbill | 05 Sep 2021 4:56 a.m. PST |
I agree with Cerdic on breathless, but Enlightened Despots are better than unenlightened despots that it seems were under now. |
Frederick  | 05 Sep 2021 2:06 p.m. PST |
I have a lot of time for Maria Theresa – took over a a polyglot Empire that was nearly broke, modernized it, reformed many laws, introduced vaccination against the time-honoured practices of some of the senior physicians in the Empire, emphasized education, had 16 children and fought Freddy the Great to a standstill – and would have whupped him proper if the Empress Elizabeth had not had the bad luck to die Not a perfect person, but one of the most successful Habsburgs |
| Tango01 | 05 Sep 2021 3:34 p.m. PST |
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paints brigs for the British fleet.
