Flaunting, Extravagant Queen
Flaunting, Extravagant Queen

Author: Jean Plaidy

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 0099493381

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At the age of fifteen, Marie Antoinette, beautiful and charming bride to the impotent Dauphin, is plunged into the intrigue of Versailles. Frivolous and reckless, she flouts the strict and demanding etiquette of the glittering court, and discovers the true nature of love, hate and jealousy. But the clouds of revolution are overhead, and Marie Antoinette, who only wishes to enjoy life, learns too late that the price of her enjoyment is very high... 'One of our best historical novelists brings to life wayward, capricious Marie Antoinette' News Chronicle 'Flaunting, Extravagant Queen has the colour, liveliness, and sensitivity with which one has come to associate this author's historical novels' Scotsman

Toasts
Toasts

Author: Paul Dickson

Publisher: Chartwell Books

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0785835695

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For anyone who will ever face a sea of expectantly raised glasses, or anyone who is fascinated by words and word-play, this rich compendium of toasts for every occasion will prove as entertaining as it is useful. The best toasts ever proclaimed (and a few of the worst), funny and sentimental toasts, cynical and heartfelt toasts, justly famous and unjustly forgotten toasts, they're all here in the latest compilation of verbal fun from wordsmith extraordinaire Paul Dickson. Impossible to put down when browsing and easy to use when looking something up, Toasts one of those books that will never gather dust on the shelf.