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• 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.…