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Moody historical fiction gives life to filles du roi banished to French colonies
4 minute read Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011Bride of New France
By Suzanne Desrochers
Penguin Canada, 224 pages, $25
This is a moody, beautiful piece of historical fiction, casting Louis XIV's Paris as a grey and Gothic city, pitiless toward its poor and dark with imperial desires.