Love's Apprentice
Subtitle: The Romantic Education of a Modern Woman
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: June 9, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780395957851
First sentence: Long ago in the city of Paris, in the time of Louis XIII and the young Louis XIV, there lived a woman named Madeleine de Scudery, a learned woman, it's said, and the author of formidable, thick, preposterous, very successful romance novels.