Title The bee and the orange tree / Melissa Ashley

Published South Melbourne, Vic. : Affirm Press, 2019 South Melbourne, Vic. : Affirm Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Summary It's 1699, and the salons of Paris are bursting with the creative energy of fierce, independent-minded women. But outside those doors, the patriarchal forces of Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are moving to curb their freedoms. In this battle for equality, Baroness Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy invents a powerful weapon: 'fairy tales'. When Marie Catherine's daughter, Angelina, arrives in Paris for the first time, she is swept up in the glamour and sensuality of the city, where a woman may live outside the confines of the church or marriage. But this is a fragile freedom, as she discovers when Marie Catherine's close friend Nicola Tiquet is arrested, accused of conspiring to murder her abusive husband. In the race to rescue Nicola, illusions will be shattered and dark secrets revealed as all three women learn how far they will go to preserve their liberty in a society determined to control them. This keenly-awaited second book from Melissa Ashley, author of THE BIRDMAN'S WIFE, restores another remarkable, little-known woman to her rightful place in history, revealing the dissent hidden beneath the whimsical surfaces of Marie Catherine's fairy tales. THE BEE AND THE ORANGE TREE is a beautifully lyrical and deeply absorbing portrait of a time, a place, and the subversive power of the imagination Subject Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 -- Fiction Louis, King of France XIV, 1638-1715 -- Fiction Louis, King of France XIV, 1638-1715 -- Fiction Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine), 1650 or 1651-1705 -- Fiction Catholic Church -- France -- Fiction Australian fiction Equality -- Fiction Freedom of expression -- France -- Fiction Conspiracies -- France -- Fiction Fairy tales -- Fiction Fairy tales -- Authorship -- Fiction Women authors -- Fiction Women -- France -- Social conditions -- 17th century -- Fiction Secrecy -- Fiction SUBJECT France -- History -- Louis XIV, 1643-1715 -- Fiction Genre/Form Historical fiction Biographical fiction. Australian fiction Historical fiction. Reading nook. LC no. be2019040626 ISBN 192571201X (paperback) 9781925712018 (paperback)

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