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Author
Series
Spymaster series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the revolution in Paris, Marguerite de Fleurignac, once a wealthy aristocrat, disguises herself as a governess and is rescued from fanatics by William Doyle, England's top spy, who needs her to settle an old score.
Author
Publisher
Picador/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
With A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel makes her American debut in a dazzling and magisterial novel about one of the most crucial--and shattering--events in modern history, the French Revolution. Already acclaimed in ber native England, this book should provoke an equally enthusiastic response from readers on this side of tbe Atlantic. At the center of this bold epic are three men who led the revolt against the tyrannies and injustices of the...
Publisher
SonyPictures
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful aristocrat Grace Elliott enjoys her comfortable upper-middle class life and warm friendship with her former lover the Duke of Orleans, until the turbulent French Revolution of the 1790s frighteningly begins. Their friendship unravels as Grace risks her life taking in a fugitive against the Duke's wishes. Soon, Grace urges the Duke not to make a horrifying decision. But ultimately she's unable to prevent several bloody fates-- including the...
Author
Language
English
Description
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
Author
Language
English
Description
A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor-these form a series of events that change the orphan Pip's life forever, as he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens's haunting novel depicts Pip's education and development...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta has been killed in France. She leaves behind ten-year-old Charles, who is brought to England to Charnwood Court, a house in the country leased by a group of emigre refugees. Savill is sent...
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
[1935]
Language
English
Description
The Scarlet Pimpernel is set in lat eighteenth century France during the darkest days of the French revolution. An Engllishman, called the Scarlet Pimpernel, and his followers adopt secret identities and outwit the French Republicians while saving the aristocrats from the bloodshed of the Reign of Terror.
8) Rogue spy
Author
Series
Spymaster series volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Ten years ago he was a boy, given the name Thomas Paxton and sent by Revolutionary France to infiltrate the British Intelligence Service. Now his sense of honor brings him back to London, alone and unarmed, to confess. But instead of facing the gallows, he's given one last impossible assignment to prove his loyalty. Lovely, lying, former French spy Camille Leyland is dragged from her safe rural obscurity by threats and blackmail. Dusting off her...
9) Little
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud" --
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The streets of Paris run bloodred, while in England the noble Lazenders hide from history's violent storm behind the walls of their opulent "little kingdom." But Toby Lazender, the family's heir, is hunting the brutal murderers of the woman he loved in revolution-torn France, leaving Lazen Castle vulnerable to a secret cabal of assassins conspiring to bring the chaos across the Channel. There is an obstacle, however, to the Fallen Angels' dark plan:...
12) Scarlet
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The first book in a rollicking new historical-fantasy series that reinvents the French Revolution with vampires as the aristocrats, in a lively retelling of The Scarlet Pimpernel from the author of the beloved Invisible Library series. It is 1793 and the French Revolution is in full swing. Vampires are a normal part of society across Europe--usually rich and aristocratic, they have slaked the guillotines thirst in large numbers. The mysterious Scarlet...
Author
Series
Charles Hayden novels volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Embarking on a mission to destroy a French frigate and gather intelligence during the height of the French Revolution, Charles Hayden of the HMS Themis discovers plans for an invasion of England before being captured by a French squadron.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In 1788, eleven-year-old Isabelle, living with her lacemaker grandmother and mother near the palace of Versailles, becomes close friends with Marie Antoinette's daughter, Princess Therese, and finds their relationship complicated not only by their different social class but by the growing political unrest and resentment of the French people.
Author
Series
Markham of the Marines volume 1
Publisher
Regnery Pub
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Lieutenant Markham, a soldier in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars. He takes part in the defense of Toulon, one of the attackers being an artillery officer by the name of Napoleon.
17) Scarpia
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It is the late 18th century and Sicilian nobleman Vitello Scarpia finds himself penniless and in disgrace on the streets of Rome. After leaving his home in pursuit of a military career, his fiery passion has seen him expelled from the Spanish royal guard and left to seek his fortune in Italy; a fortune inseparably bound to the Pope, whose rule is put in question by the French Revolution.
Scarpia enrolls in the papal army and is soon taken up by a...
18) The seamstress
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"1788: In a tiny French village, during the waning days of peace, cousins Renée and Laurette live a peaceful, relatively contented life as the shepherdesses under the guardianship of the respectable Émile Gagnon. When Renée is given the chance to work as a seamstress at the Palace at Versailles, their lives take two very different paths straight into the heart of the Revolution. Based on a character who appears in the classic, A Tale of Two Cities"--...
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