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Jane Austen's Cousin: The Outlandish Countess de Feuillide by GERI WALTON
Category: Biography
Eliza de Feuillide seemed fascinating and outlandish to her cousins in rural eighteen century England. When she visited their village, her appearance was electrifying. She was an attractive, accomplished French countess with a vivacious personality who inspired their imaginations and regaled them with s ...Show more
Madame Tussaud - Her Life and Legacy by Geri Walton
Category: Biography
Madame Marie Tussaud is known worldwide for the chain of wax museums she started over 200 hundred years ago. Less known is that her original wax models were often of the famous and infamous people she personally knew during and after the French Revolution. These were people like Voltaire, Robespierre, a ...Show more
Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe by GERI WALTON
Category: History
Marie Antoinette has always fascinated readers worldwide. Yet perhaps no one knew her better than one of her closest confidantes, Marie Therese, the Princess de Lamballe. The Princess became superintendent of the Queen's household in 1774, and through her relationship with Marie Antoinette, a unique per ...Show more
Napoleon's Downfall - Madame Recamier and Her Battle with the Emperor by Geri Walton
Category: History
Napoleon Bonaparte and Juliette Récamier were both highly influential and well-known in France, yet they were often at odds with each other. Their story played out on the European stage during a period of political upheaval and new political ideas. Napoleon gained power in the aftermath of the French Re ...Show more
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