The Peasant and the Prince

ISBN-13: 9781523732814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 104 str.

Harriet Martineau

Opis

One fine afternoon in April, 1770, there was a good deal of bustle in the neighbourhood of the village of Saint Menehould, in the province of Champagne, in France. The bride of the Dauphin of France, -the lady who was to be queen when the present elderly king should die-was on her journey from Germany, and was to pass through Saint Menehould to Paris, with her splendid train of nobles and gentry; and the whole country was alive with preparations to greet her loyally as she passed