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Ribbons Of Scarlet - A Novel Of The French Revolution's Women [Large Print] (Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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Ribbons Of Scarlet - A Novel Of The French Revolution's Women [Large Print] (Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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List price R598
Loot Price R538
Discovery Miles 5 380
You Save R60 (10%)
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"The French Revolution comes alive through the eyes of six diverse
and complex women, in the skilled hands of these amazing
authors."--Martha Hall Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of
Lilac Girls A breathtaking, epic novel illuminating the hopes,
desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and
wives, fanatics and philosophers--seven unforgettable women whose
paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative
events in history: the French Revolution. Ribbons of Scarlet is a
timely story of the power of women to start a revolution--and
change the world. In late eighteenth-century France, women do not
have a place in politics. But as the tide of revolution rises,
women from gilded salons to the streets of Paris decide
otherwise--upending a world order that has long oppressed them.
Blue-blooded Sophie de Grouchy believes in democracy, education,
and equal rights for women, and marries the only man in Paris who
agrees. Emboldened to fight the injustices of King Louis XVI,
Sophie aims to prove that an educated populace can govern
itself--but one of her students, fruit-seller Louise Audu, is
hungrier for bread and vengeance than learning. When the Bastille
falls and Louise leads a women's march to Versailles, the monarchy
is forced to bend, but not without a fight. The king's pious sister
Princess Elisabeth takes a stand to defend her brother, spirit her
family to safety, and restore the old order, even at the risk of
her head. But when fanatics use the newspapers to twist the
revolution's ideals into a new tyranny, even the women who toppled
the monarchy are threatened by the guillotine. Putting her faith in
the pen, brilliant political wife Manon Roland tries to write a way
out of France's blood-soaked Reign of Terror while pike-bearing
Pauline Leon and steely Charlotte Corday embrace violence as the
only way to save the nation. With justice corrupted by revenge, all
the women must make impossible choices to survive--unless unlikely
heroine and courtesan's daughter Emilie de Sainte-Amaranthe can
sway the man who controls France's fate: the fearsome Robespierre.
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