The Countess de Charny (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, European Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- First Published: 1858
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical romance
- Time of Work: 1791
- Setting: France
- Principal Characters: Count Olivier de Charny, Countess Andree de Charny, Dr. Sebastian, Count Alessandro di Gilbert, King Cagliostro, Queen Louis XVI, Honore Marie Antoinette, Mirabeau
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, France or French people, Love or romance, Escapes, Eighteenth century, Kings, queens, or royalty, Illegitimacy, French Revolution
- Locales: France
The Story:
In the days following the fall of the Bastille, King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were forcibly escorted to Paris by troops under the command of General Lafayette. With the king were his most trusted aides, Count Olivier de Charny, the Marquis de Favras, and a commoner but also a close and trusted friend of the king, Dr. Gilbert. During the commotion of the king’s return, an agent of the powerful and mysterious Cagliostro learned from the king’s locksmith, Gamain, of the construction of a secret door in the quarters in Paris where the king was to be...
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