The Revolution of Sabine

Description:

During Benjamin Franklin's visit to Paris in 1776, sixteen-year-old Sabine Durand rails against the strict rules of society and her social-climbing mother by rejecting her arranged marriage and spending more time with servants and others who accept Franklin's political ideals and those she read in Voltaire's Candide while having her portrait painted by the renowned artist, Fragonard.

subjects: Fiction,  History,  Conduct of life,  Mothers and daughters,  Arranged marriage,  Self-actualization (Psychology),  Social classes,  Juvenile fiction,  Mother-daughter relationship,  Children's fiction,  Franklin, benjamin, 1706-1790, fiction,  Mothers and daughters, fiction,  Conduct of life, fiction,  Marriage, fiction

People: Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806),  Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Places: France

Times: Louis XVI, 1774-1793