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Bluebird, or, The invention of happiness : a novel / Sheila Kohler.
Van Pelt Library PR9369.3.K64 B68 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kohler, Sheila.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de, 1770-1853--Fiction.
- La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, Henriette Lucie Dillon.
- La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de, 1770-1853.
- Aristocracy (Social class)--France--Fiction.
- Aristocracy (Social class).
- Manners and customs.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Fiction.
- France.
- History.
- United States.
- France--Social life and customs--18th century--Fiction.
- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--Fiction.
- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.).
- United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 425 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Bluebird
- Invention of happiness
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Other Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- "Bluebird, or The Invention of Happiness" is a radiant and artful novel based on the life of Lucy Dillon, an 18th-century French aristocrat. Her intelligence, beauty, and lack of pretension made Lucy a favorite of luminaries like Talleyrand and Germaine de Stael--and equipped her to survive the "Terror" that swept France in the wake of the Revolution. Possessed of considerable wit and practicality, Lucy manages to keep her beloved husband and small children safe while all her former circle, including King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, are guillotined. Eventually securing passage on a small ship bound for Boston, Lucy and her family settle in the Hudson Valley near Albany. Exhilarated by the personal and political freedom she finds in America, Lucy views her time there not as "exile," but rather as "opportunity"--and the former palace darling proudly turns dairymaid, establishing a successful farm and embracing all the challenges and adventures the New World presents her.
- ISBN:
- 1590512626
- 9781590512623
- OCLC:
- 66463711
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