French Revolution
Spirit of Lost Angels
Set in eighteenth-century France, revolution is in the air and Victoire Charpentier is a peasant whose family seems to be…
The Werewolf of Paris
Werewolves are enjoying a fine romp across current literature and cinema. Though the filming techniques were cheesy, watching Lon Chaney…
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
The swashbuckling heroes in Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo have stirred the imaginations of…
The Queen’s Lover
Count Axel von Fersen is nineteen when he meets an effervescent girl his own age at the Paris Opera in…
Commedia della Morte
The 25th volume in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s venerated Saint-Germain series finds the vampire in Revolutionary France on a rescue mission…
Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow
In this novel, the second in a planned trilogy, Juliet Grey picks up Marie Antoinette’s story from the beginning of…
The First Apostle
The First Apostle is a fictionalized biography of Camille Desmoulins. He was the first to envision France as a Republic…
Season of Light
Thomasina (Asa) Ardleigh is 19 years old and wants to change the world. In Paris in the spring of 1788,…
The Traitor’s Smile
The Traitor’s Smile is Patricia Elliott’s sequel to The Pale Assassin, featuring the wily and adventurous Eugenie de Boncoeur, who…
Revolution
Editors' choice
Seventeen-year-old Andi is in her last year at school in New York, but she can’t bear to work on her…
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