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Showing posts with label french revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label french revolution. Show all posts
Monday, March 8, 2021

Review: The Queen's Dressmaker by Meghan Masterson

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The Queen’s Dressmaker  is a well-paced story of loyalty, espionage and love set in the turmoil of the French Revolution. Masterson’s fictit...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

Review: Insatiable - A Macabre History of France by Ginger Myrick

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My first meeting with Marie-Antoinette was at age eight upon reading Alexandre Dumas' excellent Le Chevalier de Maison Rouge. Whi...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

Review: Spirit of Lost Angels by Liza Perrat

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I loved this book and highly recommend it to those who wish a glimpse of the poorer classes on the eve of France's revolution. It i...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

La Guyonnière - an inspiration for my latest novel

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Born in Hue, Vietnam, my Eurasian mother came to France for the very first time in 1955. She grew up in Paris and Nantes but warmly recalls...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

The French Revolution: Brittany and the Vendée

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Drownings of Nantes in 1793, Joseph Aubert (1882) “We must exterminate all men who have taken arms against  the Republic  and...
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Julien's Terror as a Psychological Thriller - Between Rationalism and Superstition

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Julien's Terror  features various facets of the psychological thriller listed by Mecholsky 1 including, apparent paranormal dang...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Celebrating Bastille Day

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Romantic literature's portrayal of the French Revolution as a bloody affair enraptures the imagination. Certainly blood flowed wherever ...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

The Child in the Temple: the Fate of Marie-Antoinette's Son

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The fate of Marie-Antoinette's second son fascinates. The heir to the French throne upon his brother's earlier death, the D...