Emma Orczy
Mam'zelle Guillotine: Historical Novel
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2018 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-4467-6
Table of Contents
Chapter I: 1789: THE DAWN OF REVOLUTION
Chapter III: ONE OF THE DERELICTS
Chapter VI: THE PRINCE OF DANDIES
Chapter XII: CHAUVELIN TAKES A HAND
Chapter XIV: LE PARC AUX DAIMS
Chapter XVIII: AT THE COMMISSARIAT OF POLICE
Chapter XXVI: FORTUNE IN SIGHT
Chapter XXVII: AT THE CROSS ROADS
Chapter XXIX: HELL-FOR-LEATHER
Book One
Chapter I: 1789: THE DAWN OF REVOLUTION
"Arms! Arms! Give us arms!"
France to-day is desperate. Her people are starving. Women and children cry for bread; famine, injustice and oppression have made slaves of the men. But the time has come at last when the cry for freedom and for justice has drowned the wails of hungry children. It is Sunday the twelfth of July. Camille Desmoulins the fiery young demagogue is here, standing on a table in the Palais Royal, a pistol in each hand, with a herd of gaunt and hollow-eyed men around him.
"Friends," he demands vehemently, "shall our children die like sheep? Shall we continue to plead for ears that will not hear and appeal to hearts that are made of stone? Shall we labour
