The Revolution of Sabine
By: by Beth Levine Ain.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780763633967
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790 -- Fiction; Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, -- 1732-1806 -- Fiction; Social classes -- Fiction; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction; Arranged marriage -- Fiction; France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: During Benjamin Franklin's visit to Paris in 1776, sixteen-year-old Sabine Durand rails against the strict rules of society and her social-climbing mother by rejecting her arranged marriage and spending more time with servants and others who accept Franklin's political ideals and those she read in Voltaire's Candide while having her portrait painted by the renowned artist, Fragonard.