Vigée Le Brun painted more than 600 portraits, lush, warmly coloured, intimate reflections of European aristocracy. She fled France for Italy during the French Revolution, where she continued to ...

The French revolution of the 1790s eliminated the French aristocracy who still shared Canadian speech patterns, Mr. Gendron said.

Having embarked upon a hunt for French aristocracy, it now seemed that we were on the trail of a feckless German father. We had to find out the hidden identity of Caroline's father.