Francine du Plessix Gray

Pursuing a friendship and then a passionate romance with the young Marie Antoinette, dashing Swedish nobleman Count Axel von Fersen becomes a devoted companion to the entire royal family before attempting to help them escape in the wake of the French Revolution. By the author of Soviet Women. 50,000 first printing.

The Queen's Lover

Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman

Madame de Stael was born into a world of political and intellectual prominence, as the daughter of Louis XVI's Minister of Finances, Jacques Necker. Later she married Sweden's ambassador to the French court and, for more than 20 years, held the limelight as philosopher, political figure and prolific writer. She was, however, more than just a mind. Despite a plain appearance, she was notoriously seductive and enjoyed whirlwind affairs with some of the leading intellectuals of her time - she was a true force of nature.

The First Modern Woman

Madame de Staël

A profile of the Revolution and Napoleonic era's celebrated woman of letters discusses her upbringing in political and intellectual circles as the daughter of Louis XVI's minister of finances, her controversial affairs with some of the most influential men of her time, and her progressive ideals that prompted repeated exiles. 20,000 first printing.

Madame de Stael

In this ground-breaking biography of a heroic feminist and literary figure, the author of Lovers and Tyrants and Adam & Eve and the City vividly resurrencts one of the most fascinating women of the 19th century. Line art.

A Life of Louise Colet, Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse

Rage and Fire

Om den franske diplomatsøn, kavalleriofficer, adelsmand og forfatter Donatien Alphonse François de Sades (1740-1814) dramatiske livshistorie og erotiske forfatterskab, der sammenlagt kostede ham 27 års fængsel

At Home with the Marquis de Sade

In "October Blood," the ever-fashionable Francine du Plessix Gray turns her novelistic attention to the most fashionable of current topics, the mother-and-daughter pair.

October Blood

Shares the current concerns of Russian women, describes their role in Russian society, and looks at how their discontent has helped lead to the massive changes sweeping the nation

Walking the Tightrope

Soviet Women

Provides a portrait of the complex life and times of one of the twentieth century's most profound thinkers and describes her roles as intellectual, activist, union organizer, philosopher, and mystic.

Simone Weil

The biographer author of Simone Weil and Soviet Women presents a portrait of her famous parents, describing their respective roles as a gifted artist and a sophisticated fashion icon, their flight from World War II Paris, their rise within New York society, and their relationships with famous and powerful people.

A Memoir of Parents

Them

Edmund, Claire, and Sophie, friends--and sometimes lovers--for thirty years, travel to the Soviet Union, hoping to plan for the last third of their lives and to resolve the struggles and confusions of the previous three decades

Francine du Plessix Gray

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