Tag: French Revolution

• Top Ten Tuesday: My Favorite Historical Periods

  August 9, 2016

  Top Ten Tuesday

  books, English history, fiction, French Revolution, historical fiction, History, Regency, Renaissance, Top Ten Tuesday, Victorian, World War II, WWII books

  Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by the ladies at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is a rewind–we’re supposed to pick a past topic that we wanted to do but couldn’t (or from a time when we weren’t yet blogging). A while back there was a topic about…

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #48: A Scented Palace by Elisabeth de Feydeau

  October 14, 2015

  Reading Challenge

  A Scented Palace, biography, Elisabeth de Feydeau, French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, nonfiction, perfume, reading challenge, women writers

  The full title of this work on non-fiction is A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette’s Perfumer, which really helps to explain the whole premise of the biography. Jean-Louis Fargeon was a man with Republican leanings and an aristocratic clientele, and his story gives insight into how the country was split by the French Revolution.…

• Baking for Bookworms: Fried Potatoes from Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel

  January 30, 2015

  Baking for Bookworms

  anti-semitism, baking for bookworms, Baroness Orczy, cooking, French Revolution, fried potatoes, potatoes, The Scarlet Pimpernel

  Every once in a while there’s a book that’ll leave a bad taste in your mouth. I was really eager to read The Scarlet Pimpernel, as it’s a book that many people regard as classic historical fiction, which happens to be one of my favorite genres. I already knew the general story line, and wanted to…