Today's bon bon: Amazing what you find when you look for your heroine's family's home in Paris! This!

Among the many ah-ha moments, I love when research brings me something I can smile about...and visit!

Here is a picture of Daisy Molyneaux's family home in the 1st Arrondisment of Paris. The Hotel de Toulouse, owned by her parents in the 1780s, is a building that still stands.  As I describe in BECAUSE OF YOU, this home was built by her great grand father who was an illegitimate son of Louis XV.

During the REVOLUTION, houses like this were seized by the Committee in Paris as national property. A few years later, Napoleon came to power and took this building and gave it to the Banquet de France.

And there it stands today!