Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Infamous Sophie DawesCondition: NewEAN: 9781526717498ISBN: 9781526717498Publisher: Pen & Sword HistoryFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/27/2020Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Adrian SearleLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: New Light on the Queen of ChantillyDescription: She was the daughter of an alcoholic Isle of Wight smuggler. Much of her childhood was spent in the island's workhouse. Yet Sophie Dawes threw off the shackles of her downbeat formative years to become one of the most talked-about personalities in post-revolutionary France.It was the ultimate rags to riches story which would see her become the mistress of the fabulously wealthy French aristocrat Louis Henri de Bourbon, destined to be the last Prince of Conde.Her total subjugation of the ageing prince, her obsessive desire for a position among the highest echelon of French royalist society following the Bourbon restoration, and her designs upon a hefty chunk of Louis Henri's vast fortune would lead to scandal, sensation and then infamyThe Infamous Sophie Dawes takes an in-depth look at her island background before tracing her extraordinary rise from obscurity to becoming a baroness who ruled the prince's chateau at Chantilly as its unofficial queen and intrigued with the King of the French to get what she wanted.But how far did she go? The book examines the mysterious death of Louis Henri in 1830 and uses newly discovered evidence in a bid to determine the part Sophie may have played in his demise.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: HistoryTopic: BiographyRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Infamous Sophie Dawes
Title: The Infamous Sophie Dawes
EAN: 9781526717498
ISBN: 9781526717498
Release Date: 01/27/2020
Release Year: 2020
Item Height: 234mm
Subtitle: New Light on the Queen of Chantilly
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Title: Infamous Sophie Dawes : New Light on the Queen of Chantilly
Number of Pages: VIII, 221 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books The Limited
Publication Year: 2020
Topic: Women, Royalty, Europe / Great Britain / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: Adrian Searle
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
