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�

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'

Paris between 1814 and 1852 was the capital of Europe, a city of power and pleasure, a magnet for people of all nationalities that exerted an influence far beyo

Essays on the use, and misuse, of the Middle Ages for political aims.

"Slave, Merovingian queen, regent, and banished widow, Queen Balthild (d. 680) was a Catholic saint to the French, and murderer and "Jezebel" to the English. Sh