Marianne
Автор:
Бенцони ЖюльеттаЖанр:
Исторические любовные романы;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-25Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
114
Marianne tells the story of Marianne d'Asselnat, whose fate—by virtue of her own courageous spirit, coupled with the pull of destiny—became inexorably entangled with that of her native France during the decades when it was responding to Napoleon Bonaparte's vision of its greatness. Born and orphaned in the 1793 Reign of Terror, rescued by a priest and raised in exile in England, Marianne married, only to lose—at one stroke of fate on her wedding night—her love, her fortune, her illusions and even her security. As she flees England; as she is smuggled into Napoleon's 1809 France (at war with England) with a letter of recommendation to Napoleon's Minister of Police, Fouche; as she is placed by Fouche in the dangerous position of spy in the home of Talleyrand; and as fate, the...
