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Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 4: Taking the Bastile

Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 4: Taking the Bastile

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Number of Chapters: 26

Length: 08 hours and 29 minutes

Language: English

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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The Son of Gilbert (John Van Stan)
Ange Pitou (John Van Stan)
A Revolutionary Farmer (John Van Stan)
Long Legs Are Goord for Running, if Not for Dancing (John Van Stan)
Why the Police Agent Came with the Constables (John Van Stan)
On the Road (John Van Stan)
The First Blood (John Van Stan)
Pitou Discovers He is Brave (John Van Stan)
"To the Bastile!" (John Van Stan)
Blowing Hot and Cold (John Van Stan)
The Prison Governor (John Van Stan)
Storming the Bastile (John Van Stan)
Down in the Dungeons (John Van Stan)
The Triangle of Liberty (John Van Stan)
The Young Visionary (John Van Stan)
The Physician for the State (John Van Stan)
The Countess of Charny (John Van Stan)
The Queen at Bay (John Van Stan)
The Queen's Favorite (John Van Stan)
The Trio of Love (John Van Stan)
The Queen and Her Master (John Van Stan)
The Private Council (John Van Stan)
Why the Queen Waited (John Van Stan)
The Army of Women (John Van Stan)
The Night of Horrors (John Van Stan)
Billet's Sorrow (John Van Stan)
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