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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484221403321

Autore

Aali Heta

Titolo

French Royal Women during the Restoration and July Monarchy : Redefining Women and Power / / by Heta Aali

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030597542

3030597547

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages)

Collana

Queenship and Power, , 2730-9398

Disciplina

944.063

320.0820944

Soggetti

France - History

Europe - History - 1492-

Civilization - History

Imperialism

Sex

History of France

History of Early Modern Europe

Cultural History

Imperialism and Colonialism

Gender Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2.The Decade the Monarchy was Restored -- 3. The Duchess of Berry and the 1820s -- 4. The First Decade of the July Monarchy -- 5. Last Decade of the July Monarchy -- 6. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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. Heta Aali is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku, Finland, and has published widely on French cultural history, nineteenth-century historiography, and medievalism.