Finding Emilie
by:
Laurel Corona (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781439197660 (1439197660)
ASIN: 1439197660
Publish date: 2011-04-12
Publisher: Gallery Books
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Coming Of Age,
France,
European History,
18th Century,
French Revolution,
Fiction,
Historical
Very much looking forward to reading this one -- I've been intrigued by Corona's choices in heroines in her historical fiction. I need to read this one, and quick -- her next book sounds uh-mah-zing.
This is a wonderful historical fiction novel that details the age of Enlightenment, an intellectual revolution that occurred in France during the late 1700's and the Revolution.. The story revolves around Lili, who is taken in by the de Bercy family after his mother dies while she is an infant. Li...
The first quote in the blurb is a version fictionally written by Lili du Châtelet of the more well known version of Jean-Jacques Rosseau quote: Men are born free and everywhere in chains. This sets the ideals of the child's mother and for Lili's life as well. Emilie du Châtelet (portrait to the righ...
Finding Emilie is the story of Lili, daughter to the brilliant Émilie du Châtelet.The real story goes: Émilie du Châtelet gives birth, at age 42, to a daughter. Six days later she dies unexpectedly. Records show that her daughter didn't live to see her second birthday.However, Laurel Corona writes t...
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