Book by Laker Rosalind
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Successful in life but not love...
Louise Vernet was raised in the slums of Paris, coming of age amid the splendor and corruption of the Second Empire.
She ruled the world of fashion, clothing the most fabled women of title and pleasure in a society where even sin had to have style.
Pierre de Gand, godson of the Emperor himself, taught Louise Vernet what it was to love and be loved.
But it was all destroyed in a shattering act of betrayal.
Robert Prestbury, an Englishman who claimed to be a gentleman, lured Louise into a Victorian marriage.
It was a union that trapped her like a vice as he used her for his profit and tormented her for his pleasure.
Will Russell nurtured Louise’s genius and offered her the financial backing that made her fortune.
It wasn’t long before her debt to him mounted beyond what she could pay without gambling her heart.
There were many men in Louise Vernet’s life who fed her ambition and passion — but where was the one who could give her happiness...?
Will she ever get her happy ending?
Sweeping from the Paris of Louis Napoleon to the England of Queen Victoria, and from the depths of despair to the heights of joy and fulfilment, this is the unforgettable saga of a woman of daring and destiny — and the dazzling world of French haute couture she helped create.
Praise for Rosalind Laker
‘Dazzling and glamorous...a compelling heroine, a sweeping plot...sure to please fans of a woman of substance’ – Publishers Weekly
‘Glittering, glamorous, compelling!’ – Publishers Weekly
‘Fascinating, romantic, well-written. Parisian fashion at its zenith.’ – Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
‘An absorbing novel ... an exciting journey through the world of silks and satins in the days of Prince Louis Napoleon.’ – Cleveland Press
Rosalind Laker and her husband live in Sussex, England, and have a second home in Norway: a four-hundred-year-old cottage in the mountains, overlooking a peaceful valley and pine forest. Mrs. Laker is also the author of novels of romantic suspense, The Smuggler’s Bride and Ride The Blue Riband. She has also written a trilogy which includes Warwyck Woman, Claudine’s Daughter and Warwyck’s Choice.
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Vendeur : The Book Abyss, St. Paul, MN, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. The dustjacket is a bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- Chronicles a young woman's rise to the top of the fashion world of nineteenth-century France and England and portrays life in a period couture house. . .See photos for additional content. . . N° de réf. du vendeur 37353
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Vendeur : Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Etats-Unis
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Vendeur : Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Etats-Unis
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Vendeur : HPB-Diamond, Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
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Vendeur : Grants Books, Belding, MI, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. In France during the re-establishment of the French Empire, under Prince Louis Napoleon, the great Bonaparte's nephew, a young French child named Louise yearned to reach beyond the life of a destitute orphan, in the world of seamstresses. Banners of Silk (illustrateur). Book Club Edition. It was an era of revolution again for France-in politics, in society, in style. The boulevards of Paris bustled with activity, while in the salons de luxe a glittering elite moved across polished parquet floors. Watching from the wings, Prince Louis Napoleon, the great Bonaparte's nephew, waited for Louis Philippe, the constitutional monarch, to fall from grace. When the moment came, he swept forward to reestablish the French Empire. It was an elegant age, and nowhere more so than in the maisons de couture, where gifted seamstresses worked long hours in the shadows, sewing and embroidering magnificent gowns to meet a never-ending demand. Even as a child Louise had yearned to join that talented band of grisettes, artists of the needle and thread, but an apprenticeship is far beyond the reach of a destitute orphan. Given shelter in the home of a seamstress employed by one of the leading dressmakers, Louise slowly begins to learn from her benefactress the intricacies of sewing for high fashion, and a driving ambition grows. To stretch their slender resources they rent one of their garret rooms to a young Englishman named Worth, who has come to Paris to seek a place in that world of silk and satin. Speaking almost no French, practically penniless and brought to the point of starvation, he cannot find work. When he falls behind with the rent he is turned out by protective, jealous Catherine, who has detected in her young charge, Louise, the first flickers of love. But adversity is no match for Charles Worth, a man destined to change the face of fashion forever. N° de réf. du vendeur 000260
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