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An excerpt of Lesley Keogh’s poem from WEREWOLVES VERSUS: FASHION.

(In which Rose Bertin comes to Paris, rises in rank, hobnobs with royalty, and escapes the Guillotine. Also the long standing mystery of the fate of the Lost Dauphin is solved)

To Paris, she came, a country maid, highly ambitious and unafraid.

Knocked on doors, got no’s and nopes, but she was from a long line of lycanthropes

She learned the whimsies of the “Ton” and she came from the Provence of Gevaudon

Rose had mad skills as a mover and shaker, she opened up a store as a pricy dressmaker

Aristos flocked to her store with their painted faces, and she made friends in very high places

She met the Austrian princess at a garden frolic, it was helpful Antoinette was a shopaholic

Antoinette played at being a shepherdess, while the servants complained and cleaned up her mess.

The lambs would bleat with pathos and fear, whenever Mademoiselle Bertin drew near

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