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La favorite ne fut jamais si presente a la cour de France que sous le regne des Bourbon. Aux cotes du roi Louis XIV, elles deviennent tour a tour l'astre de la cour, un lieu oA' sans la bienveillance du monarque, elles ne seraient pas grand-chose. Car etre la favorite du roi de France n'est pas une charge ou une fonction. Celle qui occupe cette place n'est la que pour satisfaire le bon plaisir de Louis XIV et doit lutter en permanence pour conserver la faveur royale. Eclipsant en grande partie la souveraine, les favorites du Roi-Soleil font figure de reine de France. Retour sur ces femmes qui ont marque le regne de Louis XIV dans une cour oA' tout n'est qu'intrigue et oA' les alliances ne cessent de se faire et se defaire.
A reissue of the instant cult-classic love poem--an investigation of poetic address--by Ariana Reines, a commanding young poet.
An amusing, charming lesbian romance about finding unexpected love inside family expectations.
Portraits romancš de quatre reines de 1866 ̉1947. Rǐmpression d'un ouvrage publi ̌chez Perrin sous le titre ##Les reines de coeur##. [SDM].
Lydia et Diana deux amies inséparables vont se lancer dans la plus grande aventure de leur vie et redécouvrir l’amour au côté de leurs compagnons respectifs. Les pentes sauvages et rocailleuses du GR 10, un environnement karstique, rugueux. La découverte du pays gascon et ses richesses. De quoi donner à Lydia, soixante-deux ans, l'occasion de s'interroger sur les sentiments de Stéphane. Diana, une superbe quinqua, au flair de truffier, ''venimeuse comme une tarentule'' est loin de se douter que son amitié pour Lydia l'amènera à abandonner sa carapace sur les sentiers du Great Trossachs Path. Découvrez les paysages incontournables des Pyrénées et de l’Écosse auprès de ces deux amies.
Mia, an architect in her thirties, buries herself in her work and has had a series of unfulfilling short-term relationships. One evening, desperate to find some consolation, she drowns her disappointment in alcohol. The next morning, she wakes up next to a perfect stranger—with an extreme hangover. Unfamiliar with these transient adventures, the young woman kindly tries to kick out her one-night stand. Rather amused, and far from being offended, Alexiane agrees to withdraw without making a fuss. While she is half-naked, trying to get dressed, Mia's parents show up unexpectedly. Alexiane immediately perceives the architect's distress regarding their situation and decides to try and help her out by introducing herself as her girlfriend—a lie that Mia hastens to confirm. What better way to escape parental pressure than to invent a respectable love life for yourself? Unfortunately, this good idea quickly turns on the two young women when Mia's family tries to learn more about their so-called relationship…
Longlisted for the National Book Award "Mind-blowing." —Kim Gordon DEADPAN, EPIC, AND SEARINGLY CHARISMATIC, A Sand Book chronicles climate change and climate grief, gun violence and bystanderism, state violence and complicity, mourning and ecstasy, sex and love, and the transcendent shock of prophecy, tracking new dimensions of consciousness for our strange and desperate times.
Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship—an absence which, together with early modern Poland’s marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of European royal culture that can only be lopsided and incomplete. Katarzyna Kosior cuts through persistent stereotypes of an East-West dichotomy and a culturally isolated early modern Poland to offer a groundbreaking comparative study of royal ceremony in Poland and France. The ceremonies of becoming a Jagiellonian or Valois queen, analysed in their larger European context, illuminate the connections that bound together monarchical Europe. These ceremonies are a gateway to a fuller understanding of European royal culture, demonstrating that it is impossible to make claims about European queenship without considering eastern Europe.