French Revolution
Ernestine
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This novel tells the true story of Ernestine Lambriquet, the ten-year-old daughter of servants at Versailles just before the French Revolution. After the ...Read Review
The Portraitist: A Novel of Adelaide Labille-Guiard
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This is a novel about the career of pioneering female painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, who was starting to rise in the French ...Read Review
Glorious Poison (Battalion of the Dead series)
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Paris, 1794. The Revolution is over, and Robespierre is dead, but all is not peaceful. There are two groups at work. One has the ...Read Review
Ranger
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1796: Arthur Charteris inherits a baronetcy and comes from Grenada to Leicestershire to claim it. With him are two servants and his child Alexander (...Read Review
Mademoiselle Revolution
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Sivak’s bold debut is an original take on the Haitian and French Revolutions, seen from the viewpoint of a biracial woman awakening ...Read Review
Beyond the Lavender Fields
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Marseille, France, 1792. During the French Revolution, Gilles Étienne, a former mariner and now a high-end soap manufacturer’s clerk, lives at home with ...Read Review
The School of Mirrors
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Eva Stachniak focuses on an intense era: France from 1755 to 1793. The School of Mirrors is a three-generation epic, divided into five parts. As ...Read Review
Antoinette’s Sister
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Charlotte, born Maria Carolina to Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa, tells her story in this biographical novel. Her sister, Marie Antoinette, was the ...Read Review
The Diamond Keeper
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In 1792, nineteen-year-old Claudie Durand, an innkeeper’s daughter in a small village in Brittany, expects never to marry because all the men are ...Read Review
In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
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Maria Theresa—Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria—was one of Europe’s greatest leaders of the 18th ...Read Review
