Four women lived through the court of Louis XV, the Revolution, the Empire and the Restoration, and their lives show how differently each class and party met the storm. Catherine Bearne tells the stories of the painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, the devout royalist Marquise de Montagu, the revolutionary beauty Thérésia Tallien and the writer and governess Madame de Genlis.
Readable group biography for anyone fascinated by women’s lives in revolutionary France. Download the free EPUB.