num_pages: 371
description: Her life is the inspiration for the worlds most famous story.Lucinda a penniless English orphan is abused and exploited as a cinder-sweep by her aristocratic relatives. On receiving her sole inheritancea pair of glass-beaded slippersshe runs away to France in pursuit of an officer on whom she has a big crush. She joins the baggage train of Louis XIVs army survives a terrible massacre and eventually finds her way to Paris. There she befriends the man who will some day write the worlds most famous fairy tale Charles Perrault and tells him her life story.There is more: a witch hunt the sorry truth about daydreams and some truly astonishing revelations such as the historical facts behind the story of the Emperor's new clothes and a perfectly reasonable explanation for the compulsion some young women have to kiss frogs. This is not the fairy tale you remember.
language: English
title: Slipper
publisher: Van Horton books