Correspondance politique et confidentielle inédite de Louis XVI : avec ses frères et plusieurs personnes célèbres, pendant les dernières années de son règne, et jusqu'à sa mort ; avec des observations par Hélene-Maria Williams ...

"Spurious letters, the work of F. Babié de Bercenay and Count de La Platière." --N.Y.P.L. catalog.

Treaty of peace between His imperial and Catholick Majesty Charles VI, and His royal Catholic Majesty Philip V, concluded at Vienna the 30th of April 1725. Treaty of Commerce between His imperial and Catholick Majesty Charles VI, and His royal Catholick Majesty Philip V, concluded at Vienna, May 1, 1725. Treaty between the King of Great Britain, the most Christian King, and the King of Prussia, made at Hanover the 3rd of September, 1725 [microform].

Text in English and Latin, and English and French, in parallel columns.

The life of Marie Antoinette,

At head of title: Crowned by the Académie française.

Captivité et derniers moments de Louis XVI. Récits originaux et documents officiels

t. 1. Récits originaux.--t. 2. Documents officiels.

Secret memoirs of Madame la marquise de Montespan,

Mode of access: Internet.

Marie Antoinette and the downfall of royalty,

Covers the year 1792 to the proclamation of the republic. In continuation of "Marie-Antoinette and the end of the old reǵime" and "Marie Antoinette at the Tuileries."

King of the Renaissance: Art and Politics at the Neapolitan Court of Ferrante I, 1458-1494

In the second half of the fifteenth century, King Ferrante I of Naples (r. 1458-1494) dominated the political and cultural life of the Mediterranean world. His court was home to artists, writers, musicians, and ambassadors from England to Egypt and everywhere in between. Yet, despite its historical importance, Ferrante’s court has been neglected in the scholarship. This dissertation provides a long-overdue analysis of Ferrante’s artistic patronage and attempts to explicate the king’s specific role in the process of art production at the Neapolitan court, as well as the experiences of artists employed therein. By situating Ferrante and the material culture of his court within the broader discourse of Early Modern art history for the first time, my project broadens our understanding of the function of art in Early Modern Europe. I demonstrate that, contrary to traditional assumptions, King Ferrante was a sophisticated patron of the visual arts whose political circumstances and shifting alliances were the most influential factors contributing to his artistic patronage. Unlike his father, Alfonso the Magnanimous, whose court was dominated by artists and courtiers from Spain, France, and elsewhere, Ferrante differentiated himself as a truly Neapolitan king. Yet Ferrante’s court was by no means provincial. His residence, the Castel Nuovo in Naples, became the physical embodiment of his commercial and political network, revealing the accretion of local and foreign visual vocabularies that characterizes Neapolitan visual culture.

Peftjauawybast, king of Nen-nesut : genealogy, art history, and the chronology of late libyan Egypt

This paper argues in detail for the identification of Peftjauawybast, King of Nen-nesut (fl. 728/720 BC ), with Peftjauawybast, High Priest of Ptah in Memphis (fl. c. 790–780 BC2), known from the Apis stela of year 28 of Shoshenq III. This identification ties in with a significant lowering of the accepted dates for the kings from Shoshenq III, Osorkon III and Takeloth III to Shoshenq V, and the material culture associated with them. Such a shift seems to be supported by stylistic and genealogical evidence. As a consequence, it is further suggested that the Master of Shipping at Nen-nesut, Pediese i, was perhaps related by descent and marriage to the family of the High Priests of Memphis and King Peftjauawybast.