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A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer | 
 enlarge | Author: Elisabeth De Feydeau
Creator: Jane Lizop
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 316877
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 176
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1845111893
Dewey Decimal Number: 944.035092
EAN: 9781845111892
ASIN: 1845111893
Publication Date: October 17, 2006
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Product Description
This book offers a new look at the world of Marie Antoinette through the story of her personal and exclusive perfumer, Jean-Louis Fargeon. Jean-Louis served Marie for fourteen years until 1789 when the Revolution swept across France, its wrath aimed at the extravagances of the Royal Court and those who served it. Fargeon, a lifelong supporter of the Republican cause but a purveyor to the court, was in a dangerous position. Yet he remained fiercely loyal to Marie Antoinette, beyond her desperate flight to Varennes, her execution and even through his own imprisonment and trial. A Scented Palace is a wonderful window into the world of France during its most brutal and violent days.
Book Description
This book offers a new look at the world of Marie Antoinette through the story of her personal and exclusive perfumer, Jean-Louis Fargeon. Jean-Louis served Marie for fourteen years until 1789 when the Revolution swept across France, its wrath aimed at the extravagances of the Royal Court and those who served it. Fargeon, a lifelong supporter of the Republican cause but a purveyor to the court, was in a dangerous position. Yet he remained fiercely loyal to Marie Antoinette, beyond her desperate flight to Varennes, her execution and even through his own imprisonment and trial. A Scented Palace is a wonderful window into the world of France during its most brutal and violent days.
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Heady romance and secret formulae August 9, 2007
Esmerelda Jones (Western Australia)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Intelligent, clear and elegant, A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer is a gorgeous book awash with floral seduction and midsummer delights. The author, Elisabeth de Feydeau, holds a Phd in the history of perfume and is a professor of the Versailles School of Perfumers. She received the Prix Guerlain for this work.
Adoring fans of Marie Antoinette will sip the sweet intimacy in tidbits such as: "The nobility wore only the most refined perfumes; there were marquises in a cloud of amber, young dandies smelling of cyprus, magistrates wearing enough musk to pass for weasels. Moralists denounced this riot of scents, but those who coveted the perfumes, make-up, unguents and powder scarcely paid them any attention." A glorious read, that page by page, releases every note of perfume.
 A Scented Palace by DeFeydeau June 28, 2007
Book Reader (Georgia United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book, with amazing research and insights that I have seen nowhere else in books about this period. You get such a feel for what is going on that it is like you are part of the "in-crowd" of the day. You also get a feel of what the people were like at a time when there was no indoor plumbing or sanitation and smells had to be disguised (like the animal parts that were thrown on the lawn from the kitchen). Plus it is easy to read and Ms. De Feydeau doesn't try to analyze anyone like most writers of this period do, she just puts down the where and when and what happened in a pleasant writing style. Nice....
interesting perpective of the French Revolution January 11, 2007
book worm (canada)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book provides a very interesting perspective of the French Revolution from someone close to Marie Antoinette. I truly enjoyed reading it. The only disappointment is that the 'recipes' aren't truly recipes but a description of how some of the essential oils were garnered.
A fun and informative read November 9, 2006
Jeanne K. Dalrymple (New York, New York)
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book immensely. If you loved Perfume by Patrick Suskind, you may enjoy this as well although
not as much.;
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