This beautiful mansion can be found at 5 Rue de Thorigny and is now in use as the Picasso museum.
Melanie
"You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is." - Anne of Green Gables.
I am a middle class housewife, History geek, Versailles obsessive, Paris lover, historical fiction writer, Victorian Prostitute re-enactor, Art History graduate and Pimms addict living in deepest darkest Somerset with my husband and our two charming sons.
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The Secret Diary of Marie Antoinette
The secret diary of Marie Antoinette. An ongoing work of fiction about everyone's favourite Princess, which takes her from her early life at the Austrian court in Vienna to the splendours and archaic glory of Versailles.
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