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With rich detail and humor, a suspenseful historical romance involving Joseph Fouche+a7 (Robespierre's redoubtable police commissioner during the French Revolution), Marie Antoinette, and a girl aristocrat conveys the sweep of Parisian life at the time.

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France, October 13, 1793: On the eve of Marie Antoinette's trial--the very height of the French Revolution--Paris is a city filled with fear and mistrust, where no one is safe, not even the formidable police commissioner, Joseph Fouché. Fouché's love for his paramour Nanette--once a lady-in-waiting to the queen--places the heartless revolutionary's loyalty under suspicion. When the former queen disappears from her cell, Fouché--entrusted with her safekeeping--must substitute the Antoinette look-alike Nanette for her as he scours the city, ever aware that if he fails to find the queen, Nanette will go to the guillotine in her place. A superior novel of intrigue and passion, Alan Jolis's Love and Terror nimbly blends both fact and fiction, vividly bringing to life one of the most important periods in France's history.
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A workmanlike and intermittently interesting novel about the heyday of the guillotine, from the author of Mercedes and the House of Rainbows (1988) and Speak Sunlight (1996). Jolis's somewhat frantic story, set in Paris in the Revolutionary year of 1793, is focused on the crises supervised and suffered by Robespierre's ``chief concealer, chief bloodhound and first spy'' (a.k.a. police commissioner), former priest Joseph Fouch. While heads are rolling and ``The Incorruptible One'' orchestrates a continent-wide search for ``the widow Capet'' (Marie Antoinette), Fouch nervously pulls strings; his beloved mistress Nenette, who closely resembles the reviled Queen, is substituted for her when Marie escapes a jail cell on the eve of her trial. Robespierre, told that ``a substitute'' exists, orders her execution-- precipitating Fouchs plot to murder his master. It all gets pretty tangled, though Jolis has amassed an impressive amount of lively period detail. This is vitiated, however, by occasional anachronisms (``gang-raped''), romance-novel effluvia (``What a fool I was to believe you''), and melodramatic clichs (``Fouch is a spider, and his web spins out across all of France''). Short sentences and paragraphs are clearly intended to suggest the onrushing momentum of great events, but the story seems merely hurried. Characterizations are generally thin, even though cameo appearances are made by historical luminaries Danton, military commander (and sometime mercenary) Axel Fersen, and American radical Thomas Paine. The best single scene, in fact, details Paine's plan ``to spirit the Queen out of France'' in order to save the Revolution's reputation by denying it this single opportunity for bloodthirsty excess. If Fouch and Nenette were a little more like Bergman and Bogart and a little less like the protagonists of Now, Voyager, Joliss novel might have exhibited rather more of both emotions. Skip this one, and reread Les Misrables. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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  • PublisherAtlantic Monthly Pr
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 0871137151
  • ISBN 13 9780871137159
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