Sophie [Hardcover] Wagner, Geoffrey 1957 1st edition.

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Beautiful, ambitious, mercenary and
cruel that was Sophie Dawes,
the most notorious figure of her
day, A smuggler's daughter, born
in the Isle of Wight in 1793 and later
a victim of the workhouse, Sophie
might have ended her career on the
London streets. Instead, she became
the Duke of Bourbon's mistress, and
that would have
daunted many a bold woman was
presently installed in a wing of the
But
her indiscretions outraged the French
court and left her eventually friend-
less, surrounded by the riches she
had schemed so painstakingly to
against odds
Bourbon palace at Chantilly.
acquire.
The scandal that caused Sophie's
final, irrevocable downfall is given
an ingenious new interpretation in
Geoffrey Wagner's dramatic repre-
sentation of Sophie's life, set against
the swirling
most colourful court in history.
background of the