A Oneworld Book

 

First published in North America, Great Britain

and Australia by Oneworld Publications, 2016

This ebook published by Oneworld Publications, 2016

 

Copyright © Anna Beer 2016

 

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ISBN 978-1-78074-856-6

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Cover illustration Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (c. 1704) by François de Troy.

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