Marquis to Marquise
MARQUIS TO MARQUISE I was born a male in 1757. That must seem like a very strange phrasing but you'll see why I use it. My name is Jean Paul Richard. I was the firstborn child of my father, the leading aristocrat of our region in the east of France at the foot of the mountains leading into Switzerland. But I have no brothers, only two sisters, so there was never any question who would succeed my father, Luc Richard, the Marquis. There was little else I could wish to do as I...