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The life and times of Madame du Barry, by Robert B. Douglas.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1896 Douglas
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Douglas, Robert B. (Robert Bruce), 1848-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Du Barry, Jeanne Bécu, comtesse, 1743-1793.
- Du Barry, Jeanne Bécu.
- Favorites, Royal--France--Biography.
- Favorites, Royal.
- France--Kings and rulers--Paramours--Biography.
- France.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1896.
- Gold tooled bindings (Binding) -- 1896.
- Signed bindings (Binding) -- Bearsley -- 1896.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 386 p. front. (port.) 24cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, L. Smithers, 1896.
- Contents:
- Aspiration. Introductory
- Birth, genealogy, school-days
- Love affairs
- Elevation. His most Christian majesty
- That convenient creature, a husband
- Presented at court
- Errands of mercy
- A sham fight and a real quarrel
- A portrait drawn by a soldier's hand
- "He fell, like autumn fruit that mellowed long"
- An example from English history
- The scarlet woman and the scarlet robes
- "Base ingratitude crams, and blasphemes his feeder" (1771)
- A little black boy (1772)
- The wrongs of Poland (1772)
- A refractory princess (1773)
- The king's coffee pot (1773)
- Providing for relations (1773)
- The approaching end (1774)
- "Death lays his icy hand on kings" (1774)
- Expiation. The fallen favourite (1774)
- A grief, and a consolation (1775-1778)
- An eighteenth century chatelaine (1779-1788)
- Madame du Barry visits England
- The death of de Brissac (1792-1793)
- The last scene of all (1793)
- Epilogue
- Notes.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in royal blue cloth with ornate archway and du Barry family motto ("boutez en avant") on front cover in gold. Bears signature "AB" for Aubrey Beardsley.
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- Athenaeum copy: Stamped on title page: "Received Nov 12 1896."
- Cited in:
- Beardsley, Aubrey. The later work of Aubrey Beardsley
- OCLC:
- 4820852
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