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review: The Princess of Celle

11 June 2008, 12:37 pm

The Princess of Celle
by Jean Plaidy
This story begins with a family of brothers, of whom one will inherit the family titles and fortune: Hanover, Celle and Osnabruck. When it falls on the one brother least eager for the responsibilities, Duke George William, he passes it on to a younger brother with a few concessions [...]

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review: Madame du Barry

23 April 2008, 11:26 am

Madame du Barry
by Jean Plaidy
This is the story of Jeanne Becu, most famously known as Madame du Barry, mistress to Louis XV of France in the last years of his reign and the most beautiful woman in France at the time. Plaidy’s du Barry is kind, good-hearted and forgiving of even her enemies, whom [...]

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