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Marguerite

Anatole France

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .I never smoked them. This one I am really and truly smoking and the smoke it exhales is a cloud of poesy spreading grace and charm about it. What an interest I take in all I see. These little shops, which display at regular intervals their motley assortment of wares, fill me with delight. Here especially is one which I cannot forbear stopping to look at. What I chiefly delight to contemplate there is a decanter with lemonade in it. The decanter reflects in miniature on its polished sides the trees around it and the women that pass by and the skies. It has a lemon on the top of it which gives it a sort of oriental air. However, it is not its shape nor its colour that is the attraction in my eyes; I cannot keep my gaze from it because it reminds me of my childhood. At the sight of it, innumerable delightful scenes come thronging into my memory. Once again do I behold those shining hours, those hours divine of early childhood. Ah, what would I not give to be again the little. . . Read More

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- Nancy - Apr 13, 2021

An absolutely fascinating history by the world’s first female autobiographer. I am especially struck with the grace of her prose, and her ability to express complex relational interactions, especially given the level of intrigue at court in the 16th C. I only wish more history had been written by wo

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- Emily - Dec 19, 2019

HER!!!! SHE!!!!!! Sucks that whoever wrote the Valois history portion of the book was a massive misogynist, but even that didn’t obscure the clarity of Marguerite‘s words.

The personnage of Marguerite that emerges from her own writing is entirely different from Dumas’ character. Her faith is extremel

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- Catherine - Aug 21, 2013

It ended so abruptly, wanted to know what happened after all of that... Then all of a sudden gives you a history of the House of Valois.

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- Leo - Mar 09, 2016

These memories tell us about the king's court life during religious wars through the eyes of Princess Marguerite de Valois (known for Alexandre Dumas's historical fiction "La reine Margot"). With a sensitive and marvelous writing, Marguerite de Valois tell us about her issues with her mother queen a

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