In fact Isabelle becomes one of Therese’s two constant companions and she even is given a new name, Clochette, which is what the people at court call her. The Queen rescues Isabelle when the eleven year old girl is almost trampled by a crowd of courtiers and the queen is so taken by the child that she invites Isabelle to stay and play with her daughter the Princess Royal.Īt first the Princess, Therese, is somewhat aloof but she soon becomes friendlier and grows so fond of Isabelle that she asks the young lacemaker to come back to the palace to play on a regular basis.
Then one day Isabelle is sent to the palace to deliver some lace and on this day she meets none other than the queen of France herself, the lovely Marie Antoinette. She lives in the town of Versailles, not far from the grand palace where the King of France and his court live, and as they hunt and play and eat their lavish meals, she and her mother and grandmother struggle to survive, sewing with sore fingers and aching backs and empty stomachs.
Isabelle is the daughter and granddaughter of lacemakers.
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