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"A woman whose function it once was to read books aloud to Marie Antoinette is haunted by the memory of her last days at the French court of Versailles, when Louis XVI's magnificent palace succumbed to the irrepressible forces of revolution ..."--Jacket.
First publish date: 2003
Authors: Thomas, Chantal.
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