Marian Wade

• Nov-2015
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“Manuring their fields,” they called it, the improvident, money-hungry nobles of 18th century France, as they held their aristocratic noses and married their sons and daughters to members of a class they despised. A new roof for the château, sho...

• Nov-2015
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Charles Desmarrins is an 18th century Gatsby. The orphaned son of French peasants, he yearns for the power, prestige, and wealth symbolized by the magnificent and forbidding Château de Vau-Gency which rises above the village where he lives. Striving...

• Nov-2015
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"I love him." The summer of 1789. France is wracked by violence and upheaveal. The deputies defy the King, the Bastille falls, chateaux are burnt and ravaged. Adele Desmarrins sees her childhood home pillaged, but none of these events matter as much ...