Royalty category: 1453 books

Cinq cents ans après la guerre de Troie, et sept cent quinze ans avant notre ère, c’était grande fête à Sardes. ― Le roi Candaule se mariait. ― Le peuple éprouvait cette espèce d’inquiétude joyeuse et d’émotion sans but qu’inspire aux masses tout événement, quoiqu’il ne les touche en rien et se passe dans des sphères supérieures dont elles n’approcheront jamais.

‘I no longer want to live someone else’s idea of who and what I should be. I’m going to be me.’ ‘I just absolutely thought I was the luckiest girl in the world.’ Diana Spencer's engagement to Prince Charles, announced in 1981, first cast the spotlight on the young girl who...

Between c.350 BC and 30 BC the Mediterranean world was one in which kings ruled. The exceptions were the Greek cities and Roman Italy. But for most of that period neither of these republican areas was central to events. For the crucial centuries between Alexander the Great and the Roman conquest of...

Extrait : "L'histoire a des sources ignorées et profondes qui échappent aux plus patientes investigations. Au berceau des peuples, des races et des dynasties veillent des légendes qui semblent des fantômes de vérités, attirants et insaisissables comme ces dames blanches, ces sirènes de la montagne,...

James II (1633–1701) lacked the charisma of his father, Charles I, but shared his tendency to dismiss the views of others when they differed from his own. Failing to understand his subjects, James was also misunderstood by them. In this highly-regarded biography, John Miller reassesses James II and...

Sacré Clovis ! Cela fait 1500 ans que ce chef barbare, opportunément baptisé à Reims, nous en fait voir de toutes les couleurs. Sur ce personnage douteux, la France de la tradition royaliste a fondé sa mythologie de fille aînée de l'Église....

An informative and illustrated book filled from cover to cover with interesting facts and details about the Royal Family, the House of Windsor. For example, did you know the royal family changed their name in 1917 from German surnames Saxe-Coburg and Gotha?  King George V changed...

Offers a history of the monarchy of Belgium, a country artificially created in 1817. This book argues that the pan-European super-state resembles a 'Greater-Belgium' rather than a 'Greater-Switzerland'.

Extrait : "Fruit de quinze années de recherches, ce livre a pour but de présenter l'histoire d'un grand homme et d'une grande époque. Le XVIe siècle, fut une renaissance dans bien des domaines, dont le développement des institutions."

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] delectable double bio . . . Talk about Victoria’s secret. . . . A fascinating portrait of a genuine love match, but one in which the partners dealt with surprisingly modern issues.” —USA Today** It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation. The Court of Philip IV of Spain is a fabulous history of Spain during its Age of Decadence.

When Jean Sasson's book Princess: Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia was published, it became an immediate international bestseller. It sold to 43 countries and spent 13 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. Now, in this long-awaited, compelling new book, Sasson and Princess Sultana return to...

Frère cadet de Louis XVI, le comte d'Artois donne, dès 1789, le signal de l'Émigration en armes. À la chute de l'Empire, il prépare le retour de la monarchie. Pendant la seconde Restauration, il anime le parti ultra avant que la mort de Louis XVIII ne l'appelle au...

With the beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China, starting with a revolution that swept away more than 2,000 years of monarchy, followed by World War II, and ending in...