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Length7h 49m
About this audiobook
This 5th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins after the fall of the Bastille and the March on Versailles, which forced Louis XVI and his court to be escorted back to Paris. In Paris, political factions battle over the fate of the nation, the royal family, and anyone with royalist sympathies. Our heroes (like Ange Pitou) and our anti-heroes (like Gilbert) must navigate the blood-streaked landscape while keeping their necks out of the guillotine. All the while, the prophetic Balsamo urges on the revolution: "the quantity of blood which must be shed before the sun rises on the free world ... does not shake my conviction. I marched on, I march on, and on I shall march, overturning all that stands in my path, and saying to myself, in a calm voice, as I look around with a serene look: Woe to the obstacle, for this is the future which is coming!"
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length7 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byJohn Van Stan
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 11, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The New Men at the Wheel
17What Andrea Wanted of Gilbert
2Gilbert's Candidate
18The Assembly and the Commune
3Powerful, Perhaps; Happy, Never
19Captain Beausire Appears Again
4The Foes Face-to-Face
20The Emetic
5The Uninvited Visitors
21Beausire's Bravado
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6"The Country Is in Danger!"
22Set Upon Dying
7The Men from Marseilles
23The Death of the Countess
8The Friend in Need
24The Royal Martyr
9Charny on Guard
25Master Gamain Turns Up
10Billet and Pitou
26The Trial of the King
11In the Morning
27The Parallel to Charles I
12The First Massacre
28Cagliostro's Advice
13The Repulse
29The Crown of Ange's Love
14The Last of the Charnys
30The Effect of Happy News
15The Blood-Stains
31The Easy-Chair
16The Widow
32What Pitou Did with the Find