Gail R. (abigailsdaughter) reviewed on 5/8/2014 + 201 more book reviews

Children's historical fiction set in the time of the French Revolution - Isabelle and her mother and grandmother make lace to sell to fashionable ladies in Versailles, and while making a delivery to the court, Isabelle gets chosen by Marie Antoinette to be a playmate to her daughter Marie Therese. While Isabelle and her family struggle to have enough to live on, she observes the the careless luxury and waste that the royal family and the court don't even think of, and the resentment from the people in the city those who serve the courtiers in menial ways as stablemen, candle lighters, scullery maids and so forth. Adequate story, not great.

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