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Spirited heroine Marie Fontaine, niece of a Parisian apothecary, keeps her head during the French Revolution while all about her are literally losing theirs. She watches in horror as Queen Marie-Antoinette—"the Widow Capet" as the citizens are now forced to call her—is carted in her tumbril amid the heartless jeers of the crowd down the rue Saint-Honoré to the guillotine in the Place de la Révolution. Sharing a prison cell with the future Empress Josephine, she survives to rejoice at the death of the hated Robespierre and to witness the triumph of the youthful Napoleon Bonaparte as he sees of the last of the bloodthirsty mobs with his famous "whiff of grapeshot". Napoleon is the love of her life, but how near will she come to possessing him? Dangers, double-crossings, imprisonments and executions succeed each other in the first installment of a thrilling trilogy by one of the finest historical novelists of our time.
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Set during the French Revolution in the shadow of the guillotine, this novel focuses on the relationships among the rather strait-laced Marie Fontaine and her more frivolous colleagues after the deposing of the monarchy. Eve Karpf has a beautiful voice which enhances this depiction of post-revolution Parisian society. Her young Marie Fontaine is very fetching. For the rather profligate Josephine (later to become Empress) she adopts an appropriately giddy and vapid voice. Lesser female characters, as well as the male characters, are equally well-portrayed. These many voices combine to present an entertaining performance. J.D.N. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherGrafton
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0586203451
- ISBN 13 9780586203453
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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