Elizabeth Kerri Mahon

Author:  Bianca Turetsky Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers   Publication date: 9/18/2012   Pages: 272   Age range: 8 - 12 Years About the Book:   What if a beautiful dress could take you back in time? Louise Lambert's best friend's thirteenth birthday party is fast approaching, so of course the most important question on her mind is, "What am I going to wear?!" Slipping on an exquisite robin's egg blue gown during another visit to the mysterious Traveling Fashionista Vintage Sale, Louise finds herself back in time once again, swept up in the glory of palace life, fancy parties, and enormous hair as a member of the court of France's most infamous queen, Marie Antoinette. But between cute commoner boys and glamorous trips to Paris, life in the palace isn't all cake and couture. Can Louise keep her cool-and her head!-as she races against the clock to get home? Meet the Author: Bianca Turetsky is the author of the...

Cast Léa Seydoux as Sidonie Laborde Diane Kruger as Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France Virginie Ledoyen as Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac Xavier Beauvois as Louis XVI Grégory Gadebois as Louis, comte de Provence Francis Leplay as Charles, comte d'Artois Noémie Lvovsky as Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan Vladimir Consigny as Paolo Julie-Marie Parmentier as Honorine Michel Robin as Nicolas Moreau Lolita Chammah as Louison Marthe Caufman as Alice Jacques Boudet as Monsieur de la Tour du Pin Martine Chevallier as Madame de la Tour du Pin Grégory Gadebois as Comte de Provence Jacques Nolot as Monsieur de Jolivet Serge Renko as Marquis de la Chesnaye Anne Benoît as Rose Bertin Dominique Reymond as Madame Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc as Monsieur de Polignac Jacques Herlin as Marquis de Vaucouleurs Synopsis:   1789, at the eve of the Revolution, Versailles' occupants still live happily, unconcerned by the increasing...

Marie Antoinette (1938) Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Directed by W.S. Van Dyke Written by: Donald Ogden Stewart, Ernest Vajda, Claudine West (based on the biography by Stefan Zweig) Cast: Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette Tyrone Power as Count Axel von Fersen John Barrymore as King Louis XV Robert Morley as King Louis XVI Anita Louise as Princesse de Lamballe Joseph Schildkraut as Duc de Orleans Gladys George as Madame du Barry Henry Stephenson as Count Mercey Cora Witherspoon as Countess De Noailles Barnett Parker as Prince de Rohan Ruth Hussey as Duchess de Polignac   When I was a kid, I had a book called The Great Romantic Films by Lawrence Quirk which detailed a list of about 35 films up to about 1973.  I used to flip through the book constantly, marking off all the films as I saw them at the old Regency theater in New York and on television. One of the films listed  in the book was the 1938 film of Marie Antoinette starring Norma Shearer as the...