![]() ![]() Marie feels that her daughter needs to have associates from the lower classes so that she learns to appreciate them. Marie Antoinette introduces Isabelle to her daughter, the princess Therese. When Marie Antoinette notices and saves Isabelle from the crowd it is the start of a very unusual relationship between Isabelle and the royal family. They hope that profitable contracts with the royal family can help them to make ends meet.Īs chance has it Isabelle is almost crushed by a mob of courtiers. Isabelle and her family work hard to make lace for rich people, but they are hardly paid enough to survive on. Isabelle’s mother and grandmother are sure that their fortune will be made when they receive an order for lace from the Princess of Lamballe. ![]() “The Lacemaker and the Princess,” by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley is an innovative tale about the relationship between a poor girl who works as a lacemaker and the daughter of Marie Antoinette. ![]()
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