Diana Scarisbrick

Margaret de Flahaut (1788-1867)

A Scotswoman at the French Court

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Produktbeschreibung

The political and social worlds of France, England and Vienna during the period which began with the French Revolution and ended with the Second Empire are engagingly seen through the eyes of a highly intelligent Scotswoman, Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, who weds Charles de Flahaut, a Napoleonic general, against the wishes of her admiral father.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Adamson Publishing Consultants
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 168mm x 238mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 936g
• ISBN-13: 9781898565161
• ISBN-10: 1898565163
• Artikelnr.: 55582285

Autorenporträt

Diana Scarisbrick, FSA, is a historian specializing in jewelry and engraved gems. She has curated exhibitions in the United Kingdom and abroad and has written many books, including, more recently, Rings: Jewelry of Power, Love and Loyalty (2007) and Portrait Jewels: Opulence and Intimacy from the Medici to the Romanovs (2011). For many years she was the historian of Chaumet, the great Parisian jeweler. As research associate at the Beazley Archive, Oxford, she collaborated with Professor Sir John Boardman and Claudia Wagner on The Beverley Collection of Gems at Alnwick Castle (Philip Wilson Publishers, 2016). In 2014 she published with Benjamin Zucker the biography of Elihu Yale (Thames & Hudson). She is now working on her forthcoming history of diamond jewelry (1360-2018) for Thames & Hudson.