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Maurice Samuels

The Betrayal of the Duchess

The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern

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Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of one of her closest advisors in this dramatic history of power and revolution. The year was 1832, a cholera pandemic raged, and the French royal family was in exile, driven out by yet another revolution. From a drafty Scottish castle, the duchesse de Berry -- the mother of the eleven-year-old heir to the throne -- hatched a plot to restore the Bourbon dynasty. For months, she commanded a guerilla army and evaded capture by disguising herself as a man. But soon she was betrayed by her trusted advisor, Simon Deutz, the son of France's Chie… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-5416-4546-2
  • EAN: 9781541645462
  • Produktnummer: 32298386
  • Verlag: Basic Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 416 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 8'282 KB

Über den Autor


Maurice Samuels is the Betty Jane Anlyan professor of French at Yale University, chair of the program in Judaic studies, and founder and director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism. He is the author of three books, including The Spectacular Past, which won the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, and Inventing the Israelite, which received the MLA's Scaglione Prize. Prior to teaching at Yale, he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania after completing his PhD at Harvard. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015. He lives in New York and New Haven, Connecticut.

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