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The Nameless Duchess: A Novel of the French Revolution
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ISBN13: 9798187607341
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 16 2026
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 16 2026
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On October 5, 1789, the crowd marches on Versailles. In the panic of her flight, a young duchess loses everything: her rank,
her love - even her name. Jeanne de Montgorgé loved a prince, cousin to the King. The Revolution tears him from her, the Terror hunts her down, and the woman all Versailles envied becomes Jeanne Martin, an anonymous seamstress in a faubourg workshop, a hidden child pressed
her love - even her name. Jeanne de Montgorgé loved a prince, cousin to the King. The Revolution tears him from her, the Terror hunts her down, and the woman all Versailles envied becomes Jeanne Martin, an anonymous seamstress in a faubourg workshop, a hidden child pressed
against her. For him to live, she will have to give him up. To survive, she will have to forget who she was. In Bordeaux, in the house
of wine merchants, a little boy will grow up never knowing whose blood runs in his veins. From the court of Versailles to the workshops of Paris, from the roads of exile to a reunion no one dared hope for,
The Nameless Duchess is the story of a woman who crosses the Revolution the way one crosses a fire:
stripped of everything but her will. A woman's destiny, a love struck down by History, and a birth secret whose
consequences will surface half a century later, on the other side of the ocean. A novel of downfall and rebirth, set in the most burning years of French history - carried by a heroine who refuses to vanish.
From the gilded gates of Versailles to the mud of the faubourgs, each chapter tightens the vise:
how many times can a woman be reborn, when History itself does not forgive? For readers of historical sagas, women's destinies, and family secrets that echo across generations. Book 1 of The Montgorgé Legacy - reads as a standalone. The destiny of Jeanne's grandson continues in Dantès and the Tears of Slavery.
of wine merchants, a little boy will grow up never knowing whose blood runs in his veins. From the court of Versailles to the workshops of Paris, from the roads of exile to a reunion no one dared hope for,
The Nameless Duchess is the story of a woman who crosses the Revolution the way one crosses a fire:
stripped of everything but her will. A woman's destiny, a love struck down by History, and a birth secret whose
consequences will surface half a century later, on the other side of the ocean. A novel of downfall and rebirth, set in the most burning years of French history - carried by a heroine who refuses to vanish.
From the gilded gates of Versailles to the mud of the faubourgs, each chapter tightens the vise:
how many times can a woman be reborn, when History itself does not forgive? For readers of historical sagas, women's destinies, and family secrets that echo across generations. Book 1 of The Montgorgé Legacy - reads as a standalone. The destiny of Jeanne's grandson continues in Dantès and the Tears of Slavery.
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