Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781479136612 (1479136611)
Publish date: August 17th 2012
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages no: 356
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
19th Century,
France,
French Literature,
European History,
French Revolution
Series: The Marie Antoinette Romances (#5)
Tragic. Beautifully composed, though I had some issues that may have been due to choices the translator made.
The story begins in March 1793 as Louis XVI has been beheaded, Marie Antoinette and her children are imprisoned and the Committee for Public Safety has unleashed The Reign of Terror. Unaware of a curfew, a young woman is stopped by members of the National Guard but saved from arrest by Civic Guard o...