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French Royal Women during the Restoration and July Monarchy

Redefining Women and Power

Heta Aali author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:12th Jun '22

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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’Angoulême, the duchesse de Berry, Queen of the French Marie-Amélie, and Adélaïde d’Orléans. These were the most powerful women of the last decades of the French monarchy, but the new roles women were assigned in post-revolutionary France did not permit them to openly exercise political influence. This book explores continuities and variations in narratives of royal legitimacy, and how historians, authors, and politicians used national history - particularly medieval and early modern history - to either legitimize or undermine the French monarchy, and to define women's social and political roles. 

“A large corpus of newspapers, magazines, biographies … constitutes the main set of primary sources on which Aali based her analysis. This choice certainly adds to the scholarly value of the book … . References to this very interesting set of primary records are supplemented by a long list of up-to-date secondary sources. The inclusion of an appendix with the family tree of the Bourbon and Orleans families is particularly useful for those unfamiliar with the genealogy of these Houses.” (Pablo Escalante, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 9 (2), 2022)

ISBN: 9783030597566

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 359g

261 pages

1st ed. 2021