Titillating Tidbits About 18th Century France

There is a character in my novel, Silence in the Mist, named Renee Bordereau.  In my book, she is a bold, brave solider in the Army of the Vendee and the mentor of my heroine, Francoise Despres.
In real life, Renee was a larger character than I sketched....


Photograph by Francis Hammond
Jewelry Cabinet

Let us bid adieu to Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos, author of Dangerous Liaisons, who died of dysentery and malaria on this day in 1803.
Dangerous Liaisons was a masterpiece of fiction based on the real-life, tangled amorous relations of 18th Century French aristocrats (Any similarity between myself, la Comtesse Marie, and characters within the novel are purely coincidental, I assure...

Botanical painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute
A mournful gray cloud hovered over Kansas City yesterday, weeping copious tears.  It seemed the perfect day to see Farewell, My Queen.
The historical drama depicts the highly fictional relationship between Marie Antoinette and Sidonie Laborde, a young woman selected to be the queen's official court reader....