Petticoat Government was written by Baroness Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, in 1910. It was released under the title Petticoat Rule in the U.S. in the same year.
A story of the French aristocracy, the book concerns Madame de Pompadour's influence over the King and France.
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