Tag: French Revolution
-
Top Ten Tuesday: My Favorite Historical Periods
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
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. […]