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Mémoires de la marquise de La Tour du Pin
Mass Market Paperback, 611 pages
Published
February 28th 2002
by Mercure de France
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The Marquise de la Tour du Pin Gouvernet is one of my favourite characters from history. Her first name was Lucy, but I always think of this redoubtable woman by her grand French surname.
Of Irish descent, she married into the French aristocracy and took her place at the extravagant, doomed court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Fleeing the guillotine, she and her husband started over again as farmers in North America. There, she learned how to chop wood and draw water from the wel...more
Of Irish descent, she married into the French aristocracy and took her place at the extravagant, doomed court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Fleeing the guillotine, she and her husband started over again as farmers in North America. There, she learned how to chop wood and draw water from the wel...more
Perfect summer reading.
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