Joan DeJean

The Queen’s Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis

By Joan DeJean - Published 2018

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Nonfiction

What kind of man secures a royal decree to lock up his pregnant daughter and ship her to the colonies? Beauty and cruelty ...Read Review

How Paris Became Paris

By Joan DeJean - Published 2014

Genres:

Nonfiction

Everyone knows that Paris looks like it does because of Baron Haussmann, the 19th-century civil servant who broadened the City of Light’s ...Read Review