From writer Catherine Delors’ blog Versailles and More, a look at French emperor Napoleon I:
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From the blog Writing the Renaissance: Dining with the dead
“The head gardener at the Palace of Versailles, Alain Baraton, is defying traditionalists.”
French president Nicolas Sarkozy recently spent his wedding night with former supermodel Carla Bruni at “the opulent Palace of Versailles… ensuring that his foreign bride would, as with all first ladies, spark comparisons with the ill-fated Marie Antoinette.”
There is no shortage of articles and blog posts comparing Ms. Bruni to Marie Antoinette, including this one from novelist Catherine Delors: In the grand tradition of French royal mistresses: Marie-Antoinette, Sarkozy & Bruni
As it happens, Catherine Delors is the author of the forthcoming novel Mistress of the Revolution, which is set during the French Revolution.
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges was “the toast of 18th-century Paris. So how come the composer… has been forgotten?”
