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PUBLISHING HISTORY
Berkley trade paperback edition / October 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rock, Judith.
A plague of lies / Judith Rock.—Berkley trade paperback ed.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-1-101-61173-9
1. Maintenon, Madame de, 1635–1719—Fiction.
2. France—History—Louis XIV, 1643–1715—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3618.O3543P57 2012
813’.6—dc23
2012011227
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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