Présentation de l'éditeur
A stirring novel of passion and courage, daring patriotism, and triumph of the human spirit during the most desperate and valiant struggle for liberty the world has ever known-- the French Revolution. Written with a fresh invigorating perspective that moves beyond clichés of the period, Silent Palace dallies delightfully within the decadent chambers and salons at Versailles, rages with political intrigue and suspense through the steaming cafes and alleyways of Paris… spills across the sprawling landscapes and chateaux of France, beyond the roiling fury of the revolution and onto the battlefields of war.
Set a generation earlier than the Paris rebellion of Les Miserables, a continent and era away from the bloody battlefields of the American Civil War, Silent Palace delivers the raw emotion and notorious heroes and villains of revolutionary France, with frightening richness.
P. Marie DiOrio weaves an absorbing and suspenseful story of enduring love and heartbreaking loss around the tumultuous relationships of two seemingly ineffectual and spoiled aristocrats, their splintered families and brave, impassioned compatriots; whose fates twine at the dawn of the revolution, and whose courage and passion help to liberate a nation. Etienne de Souveneau, a rebellious young duke, driven to rectify the centuries of tyrannical rule by his fore fathers, defies the powerful nobles at Court and joins the political intrigues of Paris. Lady Cherise de Beaubonville embraces courtly ways with an appetite for frivolity and the indulgent vices of the elite, until… an act of treason…a tragic murder… cast her to the mean streets of Paris, running for her life and into the brewing storm. But, the turbulent life as the wife of a revolutionary, ostracized and suspect by all sides, was not what she bargained for.
Silent Palace captures the initial hubris and excitement of the idealistic young Statesmen who dared to demand representation and the end to tyrannical rule in the Great Hall, assuming an orderly transition of government in the Assembly. It offers a glimpse of those halcyon times of success…but the starving masses cannot wait and the decaying fruit that is Paris spins the revolution into a bloody, roiling centrifuge and out of control.
Set a generation earlier than the Paris rebellion of Les Miserables, a continent and era away from the bloody battlefields of the American Civil War, Silent Palace delivers the raw emotion and notorious heroes and villains of revolutionary France, with frightening richness.
P. Marie DiOrio weaves an absorbing and suspenseful story of enduring love and heartbreaking loss around the tumultuous relationships of two seemingly ineffectual and spoiled aristocrats, their splintered families and brave, impassioned compatriots; whose fates twine at the dawn of the revolution, and whose courage and passion help to liberate a nation. Etienne de Souveneau, a rebellious young duke, driven to rectify the centuries of tyrannical rule by his fore fathers, defies the powerful nobles at Court and joins the political intrigues of Paris. Lady Cherise de Beaubonville embraces courtly ways with an appetite for frivolity and the indulgent vices of the elite, until… an act of treason…a tragic murder… cast her to the mean streets of Paris, running for her life and into the brewing storm. But, the turbulent life as the wife of a revolutionary, ostracized and suspect by all sides, was not what she bargained for.
Silent Palace captures the initial hubris and excitement of the idealistic young Statesmen who dared to demand representation and the end to tyrannical rule in the Great Hall, assuming an orderly transition of government in the Assembly. It offers a glimpse of those halcyon times of success…but the starving masses cannot wait and the decaying fruit that is Paris spins the revolution into a bloody, roiling centrifuge and out of control.
