She is dressed in fine clothing, and fed more food at one royal supper than her family eats in several weeks. At Versailles, she is the playmate of a princess. Isabelle is invited to return to the palace each day, and she enjoys the luxury and privilege only afforded to a select few in France.īut Isabelle begins to struggle with the complete opposition of her two separate lives. It is the queen herself who comes to Isabelle's rescue, and invites her to play with her own daughter, the princess Marie Therese Charlotte. She is sent to deliver lace to the Princess de Lamballe at the palace of Versailles, but is nearly trampled by courtiers who are in a mad rush to see the queen. The Lacemaker and the Princess by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley tells the story of Isabelle, a young, third generation lacemaker living in Paris.
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