The Impossible Bourbons (Europe's Most Ambitious Dynasty)
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Product Details
Author:
Oliver Thomson
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
192
Publisher:
Amberley Publishing (October 15, 2009)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781848683563
ISBN-10:
1848683561
Dimensions:
6.14" x 9.21" x 0.5"
Case Pack:
1
File:
Eloquence-IPG_03192026_P9854863_onix30_Complete-20260319.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
As low as:
$24.90
List Price:
$28.95
Publisher Identifier:
P-IPG
Discount Code:
C
Weight:
11.04oz
Audience:
General/trade
Pub Discount:
60
Imprint:
Amberley Publishing
Overview
This traces the initially slow rise of the family from Bourbon in the Massif Central which as a result of tenacity, ambition and good marriages came to win the crowns first of France, then Spain and finally Naples and Sicily. It looks at the diverse characters who headed up the family at various times, their remarkable lives, achievements, their extraordinary talents as well as their considerable failings, their artistic legacy as well as their extravagances. Whereas most Bourbon books stop in 1793, The Impossible Bourbons covers the equally interesting post-Napoleonic period, including the Spanish Bourbons right up to the present day Juan Carlos. The Impossible Bourbons provides the reader with a series of selfcontained, readable mini biographies and concludes with an overview of the surviving monuments of the family, from their earliest castles to the Louvre and Versailles and then the great palaces of Spain and Naples.
