The Impossible Bourbons: Europe's Most Ambitious Dynasty

by Oliver Thomson

This traces the initially slow rise of the family from Bourbon in the Massif Central which as a result of tenacity, ambition and good marriages came to win the crowns first of France, then Spain and finally Naples and Sicily. It looks at the diverse characters who headed up the family at various times, their remarkable lives, achievements, their extraordinary talents as well as their considerable failings, their artistic legacy as well as their extravagances...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848683561
• ISBN13: 9781848683563
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"