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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
4) Little
Author
Publisher
RIverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud" --
Series
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"One of the most reviled monarchs of all time, Marie Antoinette became empress of France at the age of 19. She offended the nobility with her disregard for court etiquette, and the citizens with her incredible extravagance and absolute disregard of their situation. By August of 1792 the people had rebelled and Marie and King Louis XVI were imprisoned. Within months they were beheaded"--Container.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France.
7) Marie Curie
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 4
Publisher
Viking Children's Book
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Using sensational crimes committed in America, Britain, and France, this dramatic narrative takes madness and passion into the courts and puts these provocative themes on trial" --
"A journey into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel, and their trial by daylight and doctors. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what is sane, what is mad or simply bad? Through court and asylum records, letters and newspaper accounts,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette. Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutionsand two nations. Jefferson first met Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the states governor, in fighting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Profiles many of history's most noteworthy scientists, from Zhang Heng and Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein and Barbara McClintock, sharing lesser-known facts about their favorite activities, relationships, and eccentricities.
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