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A Scented Palace - The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer (Paperback)
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A Scented Palace - The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer (Paperback)
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The untold story of Marie-Antoinette's perfumer, Jean-Louis
Fargeon. Montpellier, 1748: Jean-Louis Fargeon is born into a
family of perfumers and soon becomes apprentice to his father's
modest perfumery. But he dreams of the glittering court of
Versailles and of becoming perfumer to the young queen, Marie
Antoinette. His ambition carried him to Paris where his boutique
became one of the most elegant and well-patronised in France.
Concocting sumptuous perfumes and pomades for most of the French
nobility, Fargeon eventually caught the attention of the queen.
After meeting Marie Antoinette in the Trianon Palace, he began
creating lavish bespoke scents that perfectly reflected her moods
and personality. He served as her personal and exclusive perfumer
for fourteen years until 1789 when the darkness of Revolution swept
across France, its wrath aimed at the extravagance of a now hated
queen. Fargeon, a lifelong supporter of the Republican cause but a
purveyor to the court, was in a dangerous position. Yet he remained
fiercely loyal to Marie Antoinette, beyond her desperate flight to
Varennes, her execution and even through his own imprisonment and
trial...
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