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The King's Garden

This is an English edition of the original French novels.

An orphan, Jeanne has been collected by the friendly Baroness Marie-Francoise of Bouhey and lives in a castle built in the country of Dombes. Set during the reign of Louis XV, in the year 1762, 15 year old Jeanne Beauchamps, enjoys the pleasures of her country life but yearns for more. Her love of botanist, Dr. Philibert Aubriot, a married man, and her idealistic dreams of her future, are intruded on by chevalier and adventurer, Vincent de Cotignac. Despite these two men, she builds a life for herself, both in Paris and on the tropical island, offering a view, outside French royalty, into the regular lives of French civilians.

We follow teenager Jeanne Beauchamps, as she is swept from the French countryside to Paris, the Paris of enlightenment, peopled by the famous and fascinating, then to a new French colony, a tropical isle, that offers a totally different life and society. Jeanne will discover that you can love two men at the same time. The King's Garden is book #1 of The Bougainvillea, a novel of love, adventure, life, sensuality, filled with characters full of spirit and of passions.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 671
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780517550854
  • Settings
  • Paris
  • Release date
  • 1985