title: Une Femme Franaise: The Seductive Style of French Women
author:  Catherine Malandrino 
description: CATHERINE MALANDRINO is a designer from Grenoble, France. After graduating from Esmod Paris, she studied in Parisian couture houses with Louis Fraud, Emanuel Ungaro, and Et Vous, before joining Diane von Furstenberg in New York. She had her own fashion house for fifteen years in New York, before selling the company in 2011. In 2013, she left her creative role. She lives in New York, Paris, and the south of France.
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  Seventeenth-century Paris. Genevieve is a skinny, precocious girl with a mind
  full of philosophy and the remarkable power to read the swirling waters of an
  oracle glass. Left for dead by her family, she is taken in by the ingenious
  occultist La Voisin, who rules a secret society of witches that manipulates
  the rich and the scandalous all the way up to the throne. Tutored by La
  Voisin, Genevieve creates a new identity for herself—as the mysterious Madame
  de Morville, rumored to be one hundred fifty years old.
  
  
  
  
  
  Soon, even the reigning mistress of the Sun King himself consults Madame de
  Morville on what the future holds for her. And as Madame de Morville,
  Genevieve can revel in what women are usually denied—power, an independent
  income, and the opportunity to speak her mind. But beneath her intelligence
  and wit, and in the face of unexpected love, Genevieve is driven by the
  obsessed spirit of revenge . . .
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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