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The Game of Graces
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The Elephant of the Bastille
” It was some mighty, visible phantom, one knew not what, standing erect beside the invisible spectre of the Bastille…”
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Lavender Shortbread
Kelly Epstein shares her recipe for this delightful summer treat
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Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
An amazing woman, in uncertain times
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Louis XVI: Last King of France
Louis XVI, born Louis-Auguste de France (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792. Suspended and arrested during the Insurrection of 10 August 1792, he was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of [...]
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Marie Antoinette: Last Queen of France
Born at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Maria Antonia was the daughter of Francis Stephen and Empress Maria Theresa; she was described as “a small, but completely healthy Archduchess.” Known at court as “Madame Antoine”, a French variation of her name, she was the fifteenth child, and the last daughter, born in the family. The [...]
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Joséphine: First Empress of France
Joséphine de Beauharnais (nee Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie June 23, 1763 – May 29, 1814) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte and thus the first Empress of the French. Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie was born in Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique, to a slave-owning family that owned a sugar plantation. [...]
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Napoleon I of France
“The mightiest breath of life which ever animated human clay. ” Chateaubriand Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a general of the French Revolution, and the ruler of France as First Consul (Premier Consul) of the French Republic from 11 November 1799 to 18 May 1804, then as Emperor of the [...]
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Eliza de Feuillide: Jane Austen’s ‘Outlandish Cousin’
Eliza Hancock was born 22nd December 1761 in Calcutta, India, to her mother Philadelphia Austen and her father Tysoe Saul Hancock, a physician with the East India Company. Philadelphia was George Austen’s sister, making Eliza Jane’s first cousin. Philadelphia Austen had traveled to India in January 1752 without a dowry and in search of a [...]
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