Flaunting, Extravagant Queen: (French Revolution)

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At the age of fifteen, Marie Antoinette, beautiful and charming bride to the impotent Dauphin, is plunged into the intrigue of Versailles. Frivolous and reckless, she flouts the strict and demanding etiquette of the glittering court, and discovers the true nature of love, hate and jealousy.But the clouds of revolution are overhead, and Marie Antoinette, who only wishes to enjoy life, learns too late that the price of her enjoyment is very high… ‘One of our best historical novelists brings to life wayward, capricious Marie Antoinette’ News Chronicle ‘Flaunting, Extravagant Queen has the colour, liveliness, and sensitivity with which one has come to associate this author’s historical novels’ Scotsman

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Weight 0.341 kg
Dimensions 2.9 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

496

Publisher

Year Published

2007-10-4

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099493381

About The Author

Jean Plaidy, one of the pre-eminent authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific English author Eleanor Hibbert, also know as Victoria Holt. Jean Plaidy's novels had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by the time of her death in 1993. For further information about our Jean Plaidy reissues and mailing list, please visit http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/minisites/jeanplaidy

Jean Plaidy doesn't just write the history, she makes it come alive.

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This recaptures the colour and the lusty dishonesty of the French and English courts of the 16th century. Plaidy addicts will love it

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