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I have read that her unfinished autobiography was published along with several essays she wrote. In what language were they written and where might one find them to read? Judging by my research so far, it seems like there are no available English translations.
They were written in French, and I've seen translations at least to Swedish, German, and Italian. Many of her essays were also translated to English, but I don't know if the autobiography was.
You can find 70 titles by her in different languages through LIBRIS, the Swedish university and research libraries search service: http://libris.kb.se/hitlist.jsp?q=f%C3%B 6rf%3A%28Kristina%2C+drottning+av+Sverig e%2C+1626-1689%29
I looked on google and photobucket and I cant find a good picture with Queen Christina of Swedens's hair up. I have to dress up for her for a school assignment and I got stuck with her. If you find a good picture then send it to me on here or on my myspace bluehannon123@yahoo.com. Or you can send me the link on here. Thank you. ^,.,^ ^,_,^
You mean, The 17th Century Queen Cristina? Cause you know that Sweden has a king right now, right?
Here's something. I searched "Queen Christina". Terribly complicated.
http://www.windweaver.com/christina/chri stina.htm
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/rulers pre20th/p/queen_christina.htm
http://images.google.com/images?oe=UTF-8 &sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q =queen%20Christina%20of%20Sweden%20& um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Looks like you'll be wearing most of your hair down.
Sébastien Bourdon (2 February 1616 – 8 May 1671) was a French painter and engraver, the son of a Protestant painter on glass at Montpellier; his chef d'œuvre is The Crucifixion of St. Peter made for the church of Notre Dame.
The Finding of Moses, c. 1650 (National Gallery of Art, WashingtonBourdon was born in Montpellier, France. He was apprenticed to a painter in Paris; in spite of his poverty he managed to get to Rome in 1636; there he studied the paintings of Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain and Caravaggio among his eclectic selection of models, until he was forced to flee in 1638, to escape denunciation by the Inquisition for his Protestant faith. Bourdon's facility rendered him adept at portraiture, whether in a dashing Rubens manner[1] or in intimate, sympathetic bust-length or half-length portraits isolated against plain backgrounds that set a formula for middle-class portraiture for the rest of the century,[2] landscapes in the manner of Gaspar Dughet or cappricci of ruins, mythological "history painting" like other members of Poussin's circle[3] or the genre subjects of the Dutch Bamboccianti who were working in Rome. His eclectic range of styles have given art historians exercise in tracing his adaptation of his models, while the lack of an immediately recognizable "Bourdon style" has somewhat dampened public appreciation.
In 1652 Christina of Sweden made him her first court painter. Bourdon spent most of his working career outside France, where, though he was a founding member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (1648), he was for long largely dismissed as a pasticheur, a situation partly rebalanced by a comprehensive exhibition in 2000 of his work at the Musée Fabre, where the collection includes a fine Lamentation painted in the last years of his life.
His success required the establishment of an extensive atelier, where, among his other pupils worked Nicolas-Pierre Loir and Pierre Mosnier. He died in Paris in 1671.
he died of pneumonia
René Descartes died on 11 February 1650 in Stockholm, Sweden, where he had been invited as a teacher for Queen Christina of Sweden. The cause of death was said to be pneumonia — accustomed to working in bed until noon, he may have suffered a detrimental effect on his health due to Christina's demands for early morning study (the lack of sleep could have severely compromised his immune system). Others believe that Descartes may have contracted pneumonia as a result of nursing a French ambassador, Dejion A. Nopeleen, ill with the aforementioned disease, back to health.
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Two months before the publication of the Passions Descartes set sail for Stockholm, Sweden, at the invitation of Queen Christina of Sweden. Descartes' death in Stockholm of pneumonia, has regularly been attributed to the rigours of the Swedish climate and the fact that Descartes (no early riser) was sometimes required to give the Queen lessons as early as five in the morning. However unpleasant these conditions may have been, it seems plain that Descartes acquired his fatal malady as a result of nursing his friend the French ambassador (who had pneumonia) back to health.
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/p hilosophers/descartes.html
There are plenty of other sources:
René Descartes died on February 11, 1650 in Stockholm, Sweden, where he had been invited as a teacher for Queen Christina of Sweden. The cause of death was said to be pneumonia — accustomed to working in bed until noon, he may have suffered a detrimental effect on his health due to Christina's demands for early morning study (the lack of sleep could have severely compromised his immune system). Others believe that Descartes may have contracted pneumonia as result of nursing a French ambassador, Dejion A. Nopeleen, ill with the aforementioned disease, back to health.
http://www.lycos.com/info/rene-descartes --queen-christina.html