Risultati per "Anne Collins" in Biografie e memorie

Mademoiselle de Montpensier (1627-1693), cugina di Luigi XIV, era fiera di essere più francese di lui (Luigi aveva madre spagnola), più Borbone (i suoi genitori appartenevano entrambi a quella famiglia) e più parigina (era nata al Louvre, non a Saint-Germain come Luigi). Era una donna sportiva, casta, energica e impulsiva, a volte fino alla balordaggine.Dovette vergognarsi di suo padre, il debole e intrigante duca di Orléans, fratello di Luigi XIII, ma non si rassegnò: nei torbidi tempi della Fronda, si buttò a surrogarlo come poteva sui campi di battaglia, sino a far cannoneggiare le truppe reali dagli spalti della Bastiglia.

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Antoine Lavoisier who wrote the first modern chemistry textbook Humphry Davy who discovered ‘laughing gas’ Charles Darwin who changed people’s ideas with his theory of evolution Gregor Mendel who first discovered the science...

The thirteenth entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from the “prolific and talented” (Publishers Weekly) Ann Rule focuses on crime victims who had no idea they were in life-threatening danger, often from the very people they trusted the most. In this collection’s featured case...

This first installment in the New York Times bestselling Crime Files series is a chilling collection of shocking crimes and the ensuing struggles to bring the perpetrators to justice—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me. Soon to be a Lifetime original movie...

“America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews) presents an all-new collection of crime stories drawn from her private files and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had deadly consequences. The inspiration behind the upcoming Lifetime movie...

This New York Times bestseller—from “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews) and the author of The Stranger Beside Me—is a shocking tale of greed, sex, scandal, and murder on an isolated and eerie island in the Pacific Northwest. The basis for the Lifetime movie event Circle...