by Fanny Deschamps · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253052562
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«Louison ou l'heure exquise» is the historical novel by Fanny Deschamps, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (504 pages, in French).
The novel follows Louison, the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Conti, through her first steps in eighteenth-century Paris. Amid the gleam of silk and pearls, the young woman glimpses a world of salons, frivolities and great figures, while the light and sensual tone of the narrative evokes the Age of Enlightenment and the atmosphere before the Revolution.
First instalment of the Louison series. The work was originally published in 1987; this edition dates from 1990.
For readers of historical fiction set in France, with a particular interest in the eighteenth century and female protagonists.
