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The Queen's Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis de Joan DeJean

The Queen's Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis

Autor Joan DeJean
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 aug 2018

Observăm în The Queen's Embroiderer o împletire fascinantă între rigoarea cercetării istorice și dinamismul unei narațiuni de epocă. Pachetul editorial oferă o experiență completă: textul dens este susținut de ilustrații alb-negru inserate în fluxul lecturii și de un grupaj special de opt pagini color care redau opulența curții de la Versailles. Joan DeJean nu se limitează la o cronică financiară, ci ne propune o metodologie de analiză a istoriei prin prisma vieții private și a culturii materiale.

Premisa ne transpune în Parisul anului 1719, un oraș efervescent unde primele averi colosale se nasc pe Rue Quincampoix, „Wall Street-ul” epocii, doar pentru a fi spulberate de prima mare criză bursieră. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autoarea echilibrează macro-istoria speculațiilor cu micro-istoria a două familii: una îmbogățită din finanțe, cealaltă prin măiestria broderiei regale. Această lucrare continuă explorările anterioare ale Joan DeJean din The Essence of Style sau Against Marriage, aprofundând temele controlului social prin intermediul căsătoriilor aranjate și al consumului de lux ca instrument de putere.

Alternativă la Millionaire de Janet Gleeson pentru același nivel de detaliu istoric, The Queen's Embroiderer are avantajul de a ancora cifrele seci ale economiei într-o poveste umană de tip shakespearian. Dacă volumul lui Gleeson se concentrează pe geniul financiar al lui John Law, DeJean alege să ne arate impactul acestor turbulențe asupra individului, urmărind destinul curajos al Louisei Magoulet. Tonul este unul practic, analizând mecanismele lăcomiei care par neașteptat de moderne, deși acțiunea se desfășoară între celulele Bastiliei și teritoriile sălbatice din Louisiana.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781632864741
ISBN-10: 1632864746
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: B/W illustrations throughout; 1 x 8 page colour insert
Dimensiuni: 238 x 166 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de istoria Franței care caută mai mult decât o simplă biografie. Veți descoperi cum s-au născut înalta modă și speculația financiară modernă dintr-un amestec de ambiție și corupție. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege rădăcinile economice ale Revoluției Franceze, oferind în același timp o poveste reală de dragoste care a sfidat convențiile rigide ale secolului al XVIII-lea.

Descriere

From the author of How Paris Became Paris, a sweeping history of high finance, the origins of high fashion, and a pair of star-crossed lovers in 18th-century France.

Paris, 1719. The stock market is surging and the world's first millionaires are buying everything in sight. Against this backdrop, two families, the Magoulets and the Chevrots, rose to prominence only to plummet in the first stock market crash. One family built its name on the burgeoning financial industry, the other as master embroiderers for Queen Marie-Thérèse and her husband, King Louis XIV. Both patriarchs were ruthless money-mongers, determined to strike it rich by arranging marriages for their children.

But in a Shakespearean twist, two of their children fell in love. To remain together, Louise Magoulet and Louis Chevrot fought their fathers' rage and abuse. A real-life heroine, Louise took on Magoulet, Chevrot, the police, an army regiment, and the French Indies Company to stay with the man she loved.

Following these families from 1600 until the Revolution of 1789, Joan DeJean recreates the larger-than-life personalities of Versailles, where displaying wealth was a power game; the sordid cells of the Bastille; the Louisiana territory, where Frenchwomen were forcibly sent to marry colonists; and the legendary "Wall Street of Paris," Rue Quincampoix, a world of high finance uncannily similar to what we know now. The Queen's Embroiderer is both a story of star-crossed love in the most beautiful city in the world and a cautionary tale of greed and the dangerous lure of windfall profits. And every bit of it is true.

Recenzii

A fascinating true story based on formidable detective work in the archives.
A convincing recreation of a feverish period in French history . . . DeJean guides the reader sure-footedly through the labyrinth of financial and family law, low and high politicking and general skulduggery that characterised the era . . . A fascinating and original book whose central importance is to have captured the turmoil, confusion and sometimes sheer wickedness that accompanied the formation of early modern capitalism.
The tale of two 17th- and 18th-century French families, a story that begins as a fairy tale and ends as a nightmare.
[The Queen's Embroiderer] features guild-hopping, inheritance fraud, domestic abuse, eloping to England, sending toddlers to their deaths, locking the gates against the poor, and the occasional escape from a chain gang. There's an impressive depth of research-this is, as much as anything else, a mystery about the manipulation of record-keeping and identity . . . Some aspects of the wider upheaval are striking, as DeJean builds a credible picture of the mania of a nation becoming an empire: Monarchy as economy, war as opportunity, slavery as profit margin. . . . That there are so few loose ends in this two-century saga is a testament to DeJean's research.
Joan DeJean tells the strange story of the Magoulet and Chevrot families, who rose to prominence as financiers and embroiderers to the French court . . . and shows how love and money made uncomfortable bed-mates.
This exceptional and thoroughly researched book follows two prominent Parisian families from the 1600s to the French Revolution (1789-1799).
As richly and intricately wrought as a French tapestry. Beautifully written and highly recommended.
DeJean is, in many ways, the perfect guide to the lives of Jean and Louise Magoulet and the darkly glittering, labyrinthine city in which they lived . . . Were it not for her, the full range of Magoulet's crimes would remain unknown. Her command of the period and the most minute details of its social, cultural and economic life is masterful . . . DeJean is a spirited observer of the past.
The Queen's Embroiderer reads like a riveting page turner ripped from today's headlines.
A tale of intrigue and finance in 18th-century France. And what a story it is! . . . Reading The Queen's Embroiderer is a bit like listening to a fascinating, erudite lecture or examining an elaborate piece of needlework. . . . If your plans for springtime in France haven't materialized, don't despair. Just open The Queen's Embroiderer and you'll find yourself transported.
In this twisted tale of two French families, DeJean interweaves the rise and fall of the Magoulets and the Chevrots, who took divergent paths to wealth, power, and ignominy . . . the fascinating details of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Parisian fashion, politics, and feuds will reward persevering readers.
Wittily written and impeccably researched . . . DeJean nimbly demonstrates the city's postcard-perfect charm owes much to the vision of two savvy monarchs.
This lively history charts the growth of Paris from a city of crowded alleyways and irregular buildings into a modern marvel.