We are promised a true American love story, but the lovers of this romance do not so much make love as f***, even in their tenderest moments. The couple in question are Rosalie, Duchess de la Rochefoucauld and William Short, Thomas Jefferson’s adoptive son and secretary at the Paris embassy in the 1780s and ’90s. The long-burning affair did happen, and here, in Ferdinand Mount’s translation, are their letters which criss-crossed Revolutionary Europe, between legations, palaces and prisons.
The Age of Wonder
Casanova: Actor, Spy, Lover, Priest
Three victories and a defeat: the rise and fall of the first British Empire 1714–1783
The Arcadian Friends: Inventing the English Landscape Garden
Making a virtue out of necessity
Food in Early Modern England
Policies of masterly inactivity
The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole: Scoundrel, Genius and Britain’s First Prime Minister
The Last Man who Knew Everything
1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion
A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People?: England 1783-1846
Brothers and sisters in revolt
A Royal Affair
Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Dandy
Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader
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