A tremendously interesting post from novelist Catherine Delors’ blog, Versailles and More:
Marie-Anne-Victoire, the Infanta-Queen: Louis XV’s little fiancee
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Mar 182009
This is funny: The president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, hates the classic 17th century novel “La Princesse de Cléves,” so French people are reportedly flocking to read it as a form of political protest.
If you’re feeling rebellious, too, you can read an English translation of “The Princess of Cleves” at the Project Gutenberg site. (It’s free.) The book is also available at Amazon.com in French and English.
Jan 092009
French president Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly wants to abolish the legal system of the “examining magistrates… created by the Emperor Napoleon in 1808.”
Aug 192008
From the blog Writing the Renaissance: Dining with the dead
“The head gardener at the Palace of Versailles, Alain Baraton, is defying traditionalists.”
Feb 052008
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.
May 252007
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges was “the toast of 18th-century Paris. So how come the composer… has been forgotten?”
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