The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern by Maurice Samuels

The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern

Maurice Samuels

416 pages first pub 2020 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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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 and the French royal family was in exile, d...

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