Our Lady of the Potatoes

An examination of 18th-century France through the eyes of Marie-Louise Murphy, an Irish adventuress who gets caught up in the dramas of revolution and the Age of Enlightenment. She becomes the mistress of Louis XV and narrowly escapes death at the hands of the revolutionaries in 1789.

• Author
• Duncan Sprott

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 235

• Publisher
• Faber & Faber

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780571174591

• Characters
• Louis XV of France, Marie-Louise O'Murphy

• Release date
• 1995