Included below are the authors of Historical Romance set in France, along with the novels and time period to help find those books you might enjoy.

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BANNERS OF SILK 1981 ISBN:0451115457 (Victorian) In France, Prince Louis Napoleon, the great Bonapart's nephew, sweeps forward to re-establish the French Empire which created a demand for sewing and embroidering magnificent gowns to meet the growing demand. Louise, a destitute orphan, finds shelter in the home of a seamstress, where she meets a young Englishman who rents a garret room in the house and soon love begins to blossom.

THE JEWELLED PATH 1985 ISBN:0413582302 (Edwardian) As the only daughter of Edmund Lindsay, eminent London Jeweller, Irene Lindsay had inherited a passion for gemstones...she knew in her heart that one day her own designs would grace the white shoulders and elaborate coiffures of Lindsay's aristocratic clientele. As she enters young womanhood, the only obstacle to her dreams is the very man who inspired them--her father. For Edmund only wants to see her safely married, and he opposes the exciting new styles of Tiffany, Faberge, and Lalique that so intrigue his daughter...

ORCHIDS AND DIAMONDS 4/1995 ISBN:0385472811 (Victorian) Juliette Cladel comes to Paris in search of fame and fortune as a dress designer. Suitcase still in hand, she buys a bunch of violets as the Count Nikolai Karavasin, a sculptor, watches from his Rolls Royce. With the details of Rodin's studio, the atmosphere of the fashion house Worth and Fortuny, and the intrigue of the art world, Rosalind Laker concocts a romance about pre-war French class and culture.

TO DANCE WITH KINGS 12/1989 ISBN:0553282840 Begins a family saga spanning the reigns of France's most spectacular Bourbon kings. Alive with all the sparkle and scandal of the royal courts, To Dance With Kings tells the stories of four passionate and determined women whose fates are bound to the palace and the politics of Versailles.

STRANGER AT THE GATE 6/1978 ISBN:0373745127 (Georgian) The path of defiance led only to danger! Seventeenth-century France was a time of fear and persecution. A time when those who dared to defy the King's religion were mercilessly oppressed or sent into exile. And one of those was Edouard, Clemence's brother, forced ten years earlier to leave his beloved home and family. Now he was returning and Clemence's heart filled with terror. Would he be condemned for heresy? Would Clemence herself be thrown into prison for sheltering him? The clatter of horses' hooves jolted her back to the present...Edouard had arrived!

DAWN 6/1980 ISBN:0449500497 (Regency)

THE PROMISE IN A KISS 12/2001 ISBN: 006018888X (Regency) Sheltered in a French convent school, Helena has little knowledge of men. But that changes one snowy Christmas Eve when she unexpectedly meets a mesmerizing Englishman who leaves her with a powerful kiss. Grown into a stunning beauty, Helena cannot forget that forbidden kiss. Now, though, she must put aside her dreams and marry, an obligation that takes her to London. There she is determined to meet Society's most eligible bachelor, Sebastian, Duke of St. Ives, a man sworn never to wed. But when they are introduced, Helena is shocked...for Sebastian is none other than her wild Englishman.

THE DISDAINFUL MARQUIS 8/1983 ISBN: 0451124480 (Regency) Miss Catherine Robins takes a position as companion to the Dowager Duchess of Crewe little suspecting she will have to please the gentlemen who surround her new employer - especially the infinitely attractive and thoroughly notorious Marquis of Bessacarr. This proper young lady has to fight not only the marquis's audacious advances but her own unsettling responses if she hopes to prove her love is more precious than his gold.

SINISTER ABBEY 1967 Never Talk to Strangers... The first mistake Danica Hughes made was talking to the attractive stranger who sat beside her on the airplane jetting her to Europe. The second mistake was picking up his attache case by accident, and carrying it off with her to her hotel in Paris. The third mistake was opening it, and discovering its suspicious contents....And now Danica knew she could not afford another mistake. Caught in a whirlpool of violence and deception, torn between a magnetic American wheeler-dealer and a devastatingly charming French aristocrat, she fled through a labyrinth of terror in an ancient French abbey, and one false step would be fatal.

THE MACKINZIES: DAVID 3/1998 ISBN:0380793377 (Victorian) The MacKenzie sisters are smart, strong, and sassy--and it will take strong men to match them. So when sophisticated, city-bred Cynthia MacKenzie meets rugged westerner David Kincaid, it's a clash of opposites--which always attract. Someone's had to loosen the man up. David Kincaid's serious, by-the-rules way of living had him wound up so tight, he'd forgotten how to have fun--and Cynthia MacKenzie decided she was just the woman to teach him how...When David agreed to oversee building the MacKenzie railroad in the wilds of New Mexico, he was prepared to fight off the dangers of nightriders and outlaws--not to do battle with a free-spirited woman whose escapades seemed designed to drive him to distraction, and whose flirty teasing was surely more than any man could endure. But when the sexy westerner turns the tables on Cynthia, the sable-haired temptress discovers that the biggest thrill isn't the chase--but being caught!

FLEUR-DE-LYS 1989 ISBN:0451401301 (Regency) He was kissing her, so softly at first she half thought she was imagining it. So perfect, so wonderfully, sweetly perfect, was all she had time to think about before his mouth grew harder, harder......Ravishingly beautiful Lili Santana was a irresistible as she was innocent. Daughter of an aristocratic New Orleans Creole family she had been carefully sheltered from the world of the senses. Her wedding to a man she barely knew was supposed to change all that - but she was snatched from the alter by handsome, daring Jeremy Blaze, who held her captive for the ransom she would bring And it was not in a cold marriage bed but in the masterful man's burning embrace that she learned the power of passion - and the dangers of a love that broke all the rules and fulfilled all her desires.....

A PIRATE'S LOVE 10/1978 ISBN:0380400480 (Renaissance) Sailing westward toward the Caribbean sun, young Bettina Verlaine obediently sets out to fulfill the promise made by her father--but not by her heart -- a prearranged marriage destined not to be...once the notorious Captain Tristan's pirate ship appears on the horizon. Abducted by the bold and handsome brigand, the pale-haired beauty surrenders her innocence in the warm caress of the tropical winds -- detesting her virile captor for enslaving her. . .yet loving him for the passionate spell he casts over fragile, yearning heart.

SO SPEAKS THE HEART 5/1983 ISBN:038081471 (Medieval) His stubborn pride demanded submission. Her loving heart demanded love. Destiny turns Brigitte de Louroux, a young heiress, into Rowland de Montville's slave. How will they both deal with the strong passion that pulls them together, forgetting everything else? She was born a lady, heiress to rich French estates. But when Rowland of Montville captured her, he saw only a beautiful girl garbed in peasant's rags. Though betrayed into bondage, Brigitte de Louroux would never be any man's slave. Yet the fate of an unprotected woman could have been far more cruel than the rough embrace of a warrior lord as fair as Rowland of Montville. Defenseless against his unbridled passions, she yielded her innocence to the desires he aroused in her heart. And he, who had never known the enchantment of a woman's surrender, found a power in love as mighty as the sword he raised against their enemies.

CHANTAL 1981 ISBN: 0553190342 (Georgian) Torn from the dazzling salons and glittering balls of aristocratic London, the beautiful, beguiling Chantal is cast adrift on the stormy sea of destiny. From an evil chateau and a debauched French nobleman to a deserted tropical island and a bold Portuguese pirate to an elegant English estate and a dashing officer, Chantal is swept up in a tempestuous whirlwind of passion and scandal, anguish and ecstasy. This unforgettable saga of triumphant love and soaring dreams pulses with the vivid legacy of Chantal's mother, the incomparable Mavreen, and her bewitching sister, the untamable Tamarisk.

SCANDAL'S CHILD 10/1990 ISBN:0449219313 (Regency) Though no stranger to scandal, Kat Thistlewait vowed to be the pinnacle of propriety this Season to ensure that her brother and sister made suitable matches. She herself was content to wait for true love. Fate intervened, however, when Kat rushed to save her mischievous twin from jeopardy--only to land herself in a decidedly compromising position with a French nobleman!

LADY SHADOWHAWK 6/1997 ISBN: 0451407644 (Renaissance) Charles Cavendish, falconer to Queen Elizabeth in 16th-century England, has been bested once, by a girl he calls Lady Shadowhawk. Years later he is sent on a mysterious escort mission and finds her again--now an agent possessing documents that must be smuggled to the Queen. Forced into intimacy as captives, the two rivals try to resist their mutual attraction as they plot escape, but soon find a love that takes flight instead.

TEMPTED 10/1999 ISBN:082176490X (Renaissance)

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