A Queen at Bay
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (D´auvergne, Edmund B.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from A Queen at Bay: The Story of Cristina and Don Carlos Cristina of Spain was a very human, passionate woman, whose lot it was to save her daughters throne and unwillingly to preside at the coming of age of a great nation. These mighty tasks she accomplished not by the exercise of any great talents o.-genius for statecraft, but by dint of pluck and plain common-sense. Her family affairs were bouns. up with Spain´s, and she approached the problems of government in much the way she would have considered the affairs of her household. She proved equal to her responsibilities because she never adequately realized them. She was able to contend with the forces remodelling Europe because she never realized their greatness or their strength. She was wedded to no theories, identified herself with no principles, understood no abstractions. Her deadliest rival, Don Carlos, knew not the meaning of either compromise or opportunity. Cristina understood both. Her aims were always personal, and in everything she saw personal considerations and factors. To maintain her child´s throne, she drove a bargain with the Spanish people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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