Kurzweil, Allen, <br/><br/>
A case of curiosities / 
Allen Kurzweil. 
 - 1st edition. 
 - ix, 358 pages ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/> In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller, and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude's greatest device--a talking mechanical head--that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre.--Publisher description. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0151157936 9780151157938 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>91016990  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1700-1799 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Inventors--Fiction.<br/>Inventors.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>France--History--18th century--Fiction.<br/>France.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Fiction France Novel Breguet Watch (general) 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Historical fiction.<br/>Fiction.<br/>History.<br/>Historical fiction.