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Andre Charlot
Theatrical producer Andre Charlot brought Parisian revue to Great Britain in 1912 and dominated his field for 25 years. He greatly influenced American musical theater with Charlot's London Revue in New York in 1924. He created the kind of intimate revue the world came to identify as British, and was known for discovering and nurturing some of the greatest personalities in the century's theater, including Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence, Jack Buchanan, and Noel Coward. This biography, researched from sources including his personal memoirs, covers Charlot's life and career from his youth in Paris to his time in Edwardian and interwar London, concluding with his final years in Hollywood playing all-purpose Europeans in B-movies and his death in 1956. Two unpublished essays by Andre Charlot are included as appendices: "Beverly Hills, 1937" and "A Quiet Game of Bridge." The work is illustrated with family photographs from all periods of Charlot's life, production photographs from his revues, contemporary charicatures from Tatler Magazine, and production stills of Charlot as an actor from Hollywood films.
French Royal Women during the Restoration and July Monarchy
This book examines public discussions around France's four most prominent royal women during the first and second Restoration and July Monarchy: the duchesse d’Angoulême, the duchesse de Berry, Queen of the French Marie-Amélie, and Adélaïde d’Orléans. These were the most powerful women of the last decades of the French monarchy, but the new roles women were assigned in post-revolutionary France did not permit them to openly exercise political influence. This book explores continuities and variations in narratives of royal legitimacy, and how historians, authors, and politicians used national history - particularly medieval and early modern history - to either legitimize or undermine the French monarchy, and to define women's social and political roles.
The Orphan Train - Volume 1 - Jim
1990 – In his upscale New York residence, Harvey is not surprised when Jim visits him. He has been expecting him for seventy years. They met on a trip of the « Orphan Train Riders ». They were among the tens of thousands kids from the streets who were sent to the American West where people were looking for children to love – as well as cheap labour force. 1920 – This is the story of their long journey, made of friendship, mutual assistance... but also betrayal. The journey of those who, despite of being well born, would do anything to be well adopted.
Le Train des orphelins - Tome 6
À sa mort, Lisa, l’adolescente qui avait pris soin des orphelins déplacés vers l’Ouest américain dans les années 1920, laisse une lettre dévoilant le secret d’Harvey. Le garçon qui a volé l’identité de Jim, l’un des orphelins, a été témoin d’un meurtre commis par Joey, le jeune frère de Jim. Soixante ans plus tard, Jim et Joey, âgés mais toujours solidaires, décident de se rendre chez Harvey pour apprendre la vérité à leur petite soeur Anna, restée toute sa vie auprès de celui qu’elle pense être son frère.
Blackchurch
Philippe Charlot en Xavier Fourquemin, de makers van het ontroerende De Wezentrein, nemen je in het spoor van Lord Harold mee naar Blackchurch, een van de beruchtste wijken van Londen. Lord Harold Alaister Cunningham Talbot, twaalfde van de naam, is erfgenaam van een van de roemrijkste families van het Victoriaanse Engeland. Dankzij zijn nobele afkomst leeft hij een comfortabel en gemakkelijk leven. Toch besluit de grote liefhebber van roman-literatuur de handen uit de mouwen te steken. Hij stelt zijn prestigieuze opleiding ten dienste van de wet en gaat voor de politie werken. Maak kennis met de kersverse inspecteur van Blackchurch en zijn trouwe viervoetige ‘speurneus’, Hermes! Lord Harold belandt er in een bonte wereld vol bedriegers en doorwinterde bandieten, waar alleen zwijgen echt goud is. Zijn verfijnde manieren springen er in het oog... zeker bij de drie jonge vrouwen die de wijk in een ijzeren greep houden. De detectiveverhalen van een held die scherp afsteekt tegenover zijn omgeving, met alle gevolgen van dien... misverstanden, maar vooral veel avontuur!
Philip Augustus
This is the first major study in English of the reign of Philip Augustus who ruled France from 1180 - 1223. Outshone for posterity, by his flamboyant contemporaries, the Angevin family of Henry II and his feuding sons, Philip was in fact far more successful than any of them, astutely playing them off against each other and recovering for the French crown their vast estates in Northern France including Normandy itself. As well as reasserting the power of the Capetian monarchy, he was also leader of the Third Crusade. Drawing together all the threads in the life of one of France's most forceful rulers, this new study offers a study of the nature of monarchy in late medieval Europe as well as an insight into a subtle and secretive personality.
