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The Queen's embroiderer, a true story of Paris, lovers, swindlers, and the first stock market crisis, Joan DeJean

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The Queen's embroiderer, a true story of Paris, lovers, swindlers, and the first stock market crisis, Joan DeJean

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page [347]-354 and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Queen's embroiderer

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1028620007

Responsibility statement

Joan DeJean

Sub title

a true story of Paris, lovers, swindlers, and the first stock market crisis

Table Of Contents

The Queen's embroiderers -- Star-crossed -- Upward mobility.1: Salt and taxes: The Chevrots: 1604-1698 -- Upward Mobility.2: Purveyors To the crown: The Magoulets: 1638-1678 -- Salad days: The Magoulets: 1679-1698 -- Annual income, annual expenditure: The Magoulets: 1677-1691 -- Secrets and lies: The Magoulets: 1692-1704 -- A person of consequence: The Chevrots: 1692-1708 -- The great winter: The Chevrots: 1708-1716 -- The deadly years: The Magoulets: 1705-1719 -- The gold rush: Jean Magoulet: 1718-1719 -- The invention of money: Louise Magoulet And Louis Chevrot: 1719 -- Clement Magoulet: 1669-1719 -- "The incredible madness of the 20th year of the eighteenth century": Louise Magoulet And Louis Chevrot: 1720 -- Aftershocks: everyone: 1721-1723 -- Total eclipse: everyone: 1723-1724 -- "A diabolical person": Clement Magoulet: December 1724-May 15, 1732 -- The remains of the day: The Chevrots: 1725-1736 -- Embroiderer to the princes, designer to the princes: The Magoulets: 1728-1761 -- The King's prosecutors: Louise Magoulet: 1729-? -- To the islands: Marie Magoulet: early 1740s-1848 -- A royal wedding: The Magoulets: 1717-1827 -- The noise of time: The Chevrots: 1736-1790

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