The Favorite
The true story of Aimee Dubuca De Rivery, a French girl sold into slavery to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
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"Although I can see where the dissers are coming from, I found this film charming. Yeah, the script and acting could have been better, but man, what a story! Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, cousin of the French Empress Josephine, captured by pirates and sold into the Turkish ruler's harem, in later life ends up transforming Turkey into the modern age through her son. She was known as the Sultan Valideh, the Veiled Power, and she made herself and her son a bridge to the West. She must have been something and a half, and Amber O'Shea, with a pretty crappy script, somehow manages to sell it. An..."
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Aimée du Buc de Rivéry was born 4th December 1768 the daughter of wealthy French plantation owners in Pointe Royale, south-west of Robert on the Caribbean island of Martinique. After being sent to a convent school in France, she was returning home in July or August 1788 when the ship she was on vanished at sea. It is thought that the ship was attacked and taken by Barbary pirates. It has been suggested that she was enslaved and eventually sent to Constantinople as a gift to the Ottoman Sultan by the Bey of Algiers.
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The true story of Aimee Dubuca De Rivery, a French girl sold into slavery to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.