Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 4: Taking the Bastile
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- The Son of Gilbert
- Ange Pitou
- A Revolutionary Farmer
- Long Legs Are Goord for Running, if Not for Dancing
- Why the Police Agent Came with the Constables
- On the Road
- The First Blood
- Pitou Discovers He is Brave
- "To the Bastile!"
- Blowing Hot and Cold
- The Prison Governor
- Storming the Bastile
- Down in the Dungeons
- The Triangle of Liberty
- The Young Visionary
- The Physician for the State
- The Countess of Charny
- The Queen at Bay
- The Queen's Favorite
- The Trio of Love
- The Queen and Her Master
- The Private Council
- Why the Queen Waited
- The Army of Women
- The Night of Horrors
- Billet's Sorrow
This 4th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins several years after the close of "The Queen’s Necklace.” It describes the events leading up to and including the storming of the Bastile. Past plots of Count Balsamo (aka, Cogliostro) to destroy the French monarchy are resurrected by the mysterious Dr. Gilbert – a student of Balsamo’s occult arts and the Enlightenment philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Considered by many critics to be a highlight of the Marie Antoinette Romances, Dumas tells this quintessential story of the French Revolution through the lens of the people. As Dumas writes, “The Bastile was the seal of feudalism on the brow of Paris … the monument which had for five centuries weighed like an incubus on the breast of France—a rock of Sisyphus. Less confident than the Titan in her power, France had never thought to throw it off.” Here, history shows us the Titanic power that a people can wield! - Summary by jvanstan
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