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The bad queen
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Carolyn Meyer |
In eighteenth-century France, Marie-Antoinette rails against the rules of etiquette that govern her life even as she tries to fulfill her greatest obligation, giving birth to the next king, but she f… |
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The forbidden rose
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Joanna Bourne |
A glittering French aristocrat is on the run, disguised as a British governess. England's top spy has a score to settle with her family. But as they're drawn inexorably into the intrigue and madness … |
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Annette Vallon
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James Tipton |
For fans of Tracy Chevalier and Sarah Dunant comes this vibrant, alluring debut novel of a compelling, independent woman who would inspire one of the world's greatest poets and survive a nation's blo… |
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The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy |
It was not, Heaven help us all! a very uncommon occurrence these days: a woman almost unsexed by misery, starvation, and the abnormal excitement engendered by daily spectacles of revenge and of cruel… |
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Les compagnons de Jehu
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Alexandre Dumas |
Nous ne savons si le prologue que nous allons mettre sous les yeux du lecteur est bien utile, et cependant nous ne pouvons resister au desir d'en faire, non pas le premier chapitre, mais la preface d… |
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The triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy |
<p>At one of Robespierre’s “Fraternal Suppers,” a young man denounces Robespierre but is saved by an asthmatic vagabond. The young man flees to the home of his friend Theresia Cabarrus, who is engage… |
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Pimpernel and Rosemary
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Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy |
<p>Rosemary, the former love of Peter Blakeney, is about to be married to one of Peter’s friends. A famous journalist, she is asked to come to Transylvania and report on the Romanian occupation follo… |
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