The lacemaker and the princess
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- ISBN: 1416919201 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781416919209 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
199 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2007.
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Summary, etc.: | In 1788, eleven-year-old Isabelle, living with her lacemaker grandmother and mother near the palace of Versailles, becomes close friends with Marie Antoinette's daughter, Princess Therese, and finds their relationship complicated not only by their different social class but by the growing political unrest and resentment of the French people. Eleven-year-old Isabelle is a lacemaker in the town of Versailles. One day as she delivers lace to the palace, she is almost trampled by a crowd of courtiers -- only to be rescued by Marie Antoinette. Before Isabelle can believe it, she has a new job -- companion to the queen's daughter. Isabelle is given a fashionable name, fashionable dresses -- a new identity. At home she plies her needle under her grandmother's disapproving eye. At the palace she is playmate to a princess. Thrown into a world of luxury, Isabelle is living a fairy-tale life. But this facade begins to crumble when rumors of starvation in the countryside lead to whispers of revolution. How can Isabelle reconcile the ugly things she hears in the town with the kind family she knows in the palace? And which side is she truly on? Inspired by an actual friendship between the French princess and a commoner who became her companion, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley offers a vivid portrait of life inside the palace of Versailles -- and a touching tale of two friends divided by class and the hunger for equality and freedom that fueled the French Revolution. |
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The Lacemaker and the Princess
ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD ISABELLE IS A LACEMAKER IN THE TOWN OF VERSAILLES. One day as she delivers lace to the palace, she is almost trampled by a crowdof courtiers -- only to be rescued by Marie Antoinette. Before Isabelle canbelieve it, she has a new job -- companion to the queen's daughter. Isabelle isgiven a fashionable name, fashionable dresses -- a new identity. At home she pliesher needle under her grandmother's disapproving eye. At the palace she isplaymate to a princess. Thrown into a world of luxury, Isabelle is living a fairy-tale life. But thisfacade begins to crumble when rumors of starvation in the countryside lead towhispers of revolution. How can Isabelle reconcile the ugly things she hears inthe town with the kind family she knows in the palace? And which side is shetruly on? Inspired by an actual friendship between the French princess and a commoner whobecame her companion, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley offers a vivid portrait of lifeinside the palace of Versailles -- and a touching tale of two friends divided byclass and the hunger for equality and freedom that fueled the French Revolution.