Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville Rakesh Bhatt is an invitation to join

is an invitation to join bizarre characters in a most unusual fancy dress party

and John Clarkson and William Dawes

and first-hand examples of the author's own experiences

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Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville Rakesh Bhatt is an invitation to joinThe beautiful Marquise de Banneville meets a handsome marquis, and they fall in love. But the young woman is actually a young man (brought up as a girl and completely in the dark about her or his true sex), while the marquis is actually a young woman who likes to cross dress. Will they live happily ever after? In the introduction, Joan DeJean presents the fascinating puzzle of authorship of this lighthearted gender bending tale written in the late