The Scandal That Shook the Throne: A Novel Inspired by True Events

47 stab wounds. A Duke in flight. A King about to lose his crown.

Paris, 1847. The Duchess Fanny de Choiseul-Praslin is found murdered in her bed, her body bearing the evidence of a savage attack. The prime suspect? Her husband - a Peer of France whose name reaches back six centuries. As Paris erupts in outrage, the monarchy realizes a public trial will expose the rot at the heart of the ruling class.

The official records say the Duke took his own life in a prison cell. My family's records say he was at our dinner table in Nicaragua.

The Scandal That Shook the Throne is built on fifteen years of genealogical research tracing my family's direct descent from the Pasquier and Praslin bloodlines. It reconstructs the most explosive criminal case of the July Monarchy: how a Chancellor of France may have orchestrated the perfect cover-up, allowing a guilty Duke to vanish into Central America.

This is more than a retelling of a famous crime. Inside:

• The Lost History: Oral traditions preserved before William Walker's forces burned Granada's archives in 1856.
• The Conspiracy: The political machinery that chose dynasty over justice.
• The Scapegoat: The story of Henriette Deluzy, the governess who lost everything to a Duke's obsession.

Follow a high-intensity journey from the gilded salons of Paris to the mountains of Nicaragua - where scandal is a weapon, innocence offers no protection, and the powerful have always known how to disappear.

A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a short historical novel - a focused reconstruction of the 1847 Praslin Affair. Court records, published testimony, and my own family's archival research are woven together to explore a mystery that textbooks closed too quickly.