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  • Getting Personal / May 18, 2014

    Madame du Barry & Me: What an 18th Century Courtesan Taught Me about Modern Life

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Madame du Barry & Me: What an 18th Century Courtesan Taught Me about Modern Life

In Getting Personal | May 18, 2014 | 3 Comments

If you’ve ever wondered where writers get their ideas, sometimes it’s when they were looking for something completely different. Case in point: I’ve been reading the biography Du Barry by Stanley Loomis, as part of my research for the sequel to The Romanov Legacy. The book is a fascinating glimpse at Louis XV’s last mistress. I related to her in …

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I went to science camp in fifth grade. I wasn’t special or anything – everyone had to go. Our counselors were high-school students, but they might as well have been adults. They could drive, they went on dates, they had jobs, and we all had questions we were dying to ask. Some kids asked about cars. One asked whether they liked being counselors. Me? I asked when we’d finally get to study the French Revolution.

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