Madame du Barry
Plaidy, Jean, 1906-19931994
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This historical novel relates the moving story of a remarkable beauty and wit who dazzled king and commoner alike. Marie Jeanne Becu was the illegitimate daughter of a humble cook yet, by the time she was 23, she had become Madame du Barry and the official mistress of King Louis XV of France.
Main title:
Madame du Barry / Jean Plaidy.
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Imprint:
London : Hale, 1994.
Collation:
254p.
Notes:
First published under the pseudonym of Ellalice Tate, 1959.
ISBN:
9780709053293 (hbk)0709053290 (hbk)
Dewey class:
FictionFICTION823.912
Language:
English
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BRN:
1897470
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