The Betrayal of the Duchess:
Maurice Samuels in Conversation with Caroline Weber
LIVE on Zoom
Monday, June 22 at 6pm ET
40 minutes with Q&A
Maurice Samuels, award-winning author and Professor of French at Yale University, will discuss his recently released book, The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern (April 2020).
He will be interviewed by Caroline Weber, Barnard College Professor and acclaimed author of Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the Revolution.
Together they will discuss France during the great cholera outbreak of 1832 and the attempted coup by the Duchesse de Berry, who endeavors to reconquer the French throne for the Bourbons. She is foiled by a charming but volatile young man, the son of France’s Chief Rabbi, who double-crosses her, leading to a scandal that engenders one of the world’s deadliest forms of hatred: antisemitism.
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