Anyways, real or not, to you historians out there, this story is set during the rule of King Louis XVI, in about 1788. Before Isabelle can believe it, she has a new job - companion to the queen's daughter. One day as she delivers lace to the palace, she is almost trampled by a crowd of courtiers - only to be rescued by Marie Antoinette. S&S/McElderry, 16.99 (199pp) ISBN 978-1-4169-1920-9 Bradley ( For Freedom ) gives readers a glimpse of the overwhelming poverty. ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD ISABELLE IS A LACEMAKER IN THE TOWN OF VERSAILLES. Library Catalog is a service of eiNetwork, a collaboration of the Allegheny County Library Association and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

Since this is fiction, it’s not bound to be historically correct, but I think that some of the characters other than the royal family were real (at least I think they mentioned something about it in the Author’s Note, I’m not sure since I didn’t read the whole thing). The Lacemaker and the Princess Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. The lacemaker and the princess by Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. I really expected it to be a Prince and the Pauper kind of thing, but it’s pretty far from it, in by opinion. Inspired by an actual friendship between the French princess and a commoner who became her companion, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley offers a vivid portrait of life inside the palace of Versailles - and a touching tale of two friends divided by class and the hunger for equality and freedom that fueled the French Revolution. This book is set in Versailles during the French Revolution.

The princess and the lacemaker