by Judith Merkle Riley · Tapa dura · ISBN 9782724293241
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«La jeune fille aux oracles» is the historical novel by Judith Merkle Riley, published by France Loisirs in hardback (609 pages, in French).
In seventeenth-century Paris, Geneviève Pasquier is at the mercy of her mother and uncle after her father's death. Catherine Montvoisin, La Voisin, saves her from suicide and exploits her gift for reading the future in a glass of water. As the Marquise de Morville, she triumphs as a fortune-teller in Paris and Versailles while the affaire des poisons erupts.
Work originally published in English as The Oracle Glass in 1992; the French translation by France Loisirs dates from 1996.
For readers of historical and fantasy fiction seeking court intrigues, female characters, and a touch of suspense and magic.
Judith Merkle Riley was an American political scientist and novelist. Writing as Judith A. Merkle, she published Management and Ideology: The Legacy of the International Scientific Management Movement (1980), a study of scientific management reviewed in major historical journals. Beginning in 1988, under her married name, she wrote six historical novels set in late medieval and early modern Europe.
