La modiste de la reine

Catherine Guennec

331 pages

Résumé

Rose Bertin, a poor seamstress in Picardy, arrived in Paris with her fifteen years old convinced she'll find there a job and a future. Tireless worker, she soon manages to open her own way and when the Duchess of Chartres becomes fond of her designs, Rose's life changes forever. Her creations shine by its diversity and inventiveness, and attract the newcomer Archduchess Marie Antoinette Habsburg-Lorraine. The wishes of what will be undoubtedly the most admired and hated queen of France, together with the inspiration of the divine Bertin, who became the queen's dressmaker, will get her costumes dress the queen of Sweden, Spain and Bohemia, and creates an authentic rule suit from her shop in the Rue Saint Honor.