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The King's Garden: Fanny Deschamps
The King's Garden: Fanny Deschamps
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Set during the reign of Louis XV, in the year 1762, 15 year old orphan Jeanne Beauchamps is collected by the friendly Baroness Marie-Francoise of Bouhey to live in a castle in Dombes. She enjoys the pleasures of her country life but yearns for more. Her love of the handsome botanist Dr. Philibert Aubriot and her idealistic dreams of her future are intruded on by the dashing Chevalier Vincent de Cotignac. It seems to her that the best thing to do is to marry one and take the other for her lover - a solution as neat as it is dangerous. Jeanne is swept from the French countryside to Paris, the Paris of enlightenment, peopled by the famous and fascinating - Diderot, Mozart and Casanova all make their appearances - then to a new French colony, a tropical isle, that offers a totally different life and society. Cover art by Julie Dodd. Translated into English from the original French.
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Hardback; unclipped dust jacket has very light shelfwear; tightly bound and clean within; near fine, Modern LiteratureShare
