Tag: Louis

Free Download The Fountain of Latona: Louis XIV, Charles Le Brun, and the Gardens of Versailles (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) by Thomas F. Hedin
English | July 12, 2022 | ISBN: 0812253752 | True EPUB | 296 pages | 138 MB
Ovid tells the story of Latona, the mother by Jupiter of Apollo and Diana. In her flight from the jealous Juno, she arrives faint and parched on the coast of Asia Minor. Kneeling to sip from a pond, Latona is met by the local peasants, who not only deny her effort but muddy the water in pure malice. Enraged, Latona calls a curse down upon the stingy peasants, turning them to frogs.

Free Download 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: St. Louis: Including Sullivan, Potosi, and Farmington by Steve Henry
English | June 29, 2021 | ISBN: 1634041062 | 328 pages | MOBI | 40 Mb
It’s Time to Take a Hike in Saint Louis, Missouri!

Free Download Who HQ, John O’Brien, "Who Was Louis Armstrong?"
English | 2004 | pages: 112 | ISBN: 0448433680, 1417713828 | EPUB | 5,4 mb
If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville. But it was Louis Armstrong’s own passion and genius that pushed jazz into new and exciting realms with his amazing, improvisational trumpet playing. His seventy-year life spanned a critical time in American music as well as black history.

Free Download Mick Carlon, "Travels with Louis"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1935248359 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.3 mb
"When Louis was home in Queens, neighborhood kids would gather around as he brought them into jazz. His music still vibrantly lives around the world, and his spirit of humaneness lives in Travels with Louis by Mick Carlon, teacher of jazz to the young of all ages."-Nat Hentoff

Free Download Antonia Fraser, "Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King"
English | 2007 | pages: 464 | ISBN: 1400033748, 0385509847 | EPUB | 5,9 mb
Louis XIV, the highly-feted "Sun King", was renowned for his political and cultural influence and for raising France to a new level of prominence in seventeenth-century Europe. And yet, as Antonia Fraser keenly describes, he was equally legendary in the domestic sphere. Indeed, a panoply of women-his mother, Anne; mistresses such as Louise de la Vallière, Athénaïs de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Maintenon; and an array of courtesans-moved in and out of the court. The highly visible presence of these women raises many questions about their position in both Louis XIV’s life and in France at large. With careful research and vivid, engaging prose, Fraser makes the multifaceted life of one of the most famous European monarchs accessible and vibrantly current.

Free Download Scott Phillips, Calvin Wilson, LaVelle Wilkins-Chinn, "St. Louis Noir"
English | 2016 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 1617752983 | EPUB | 3,3 mb
"Featuring a baker’s dozen of original stories, plus one ‘poetic interlude,’ this new entry in Akashic’s globetrotting anthology series explores, as editor Phillips, author of The Ice Harvest, tells us in his introduction, the ‘collision of high and low’ that makes St. Louis so interesting to crime writers…The stories here are uniformly strong. Regular readers of the Noir series (since its inception in 2004, there have been about 75 installments) know what to expect: tightly written, tightly Descriptionted, mostly character-driven stories of murder and mayhem, death and despair, shadow and shock."