This romance novel is set in France following the Revolution as well as the expulsion of the Bourbons. The central plot revolves around the intrigues of their followers as well as those of Napoleon Bonaparte. Crystal, a beautiful lady, is the only daughter of the old and long-exiled snobbish royalist, Comte de Cambray. She is about to marry Victor de Marmont, who is secretly an ardent Bonapartist. Bobby Clyffurde, An Englishman is also in love with Crystal. Crystal has another admirer, Maurice de St. Geni. Who will eventually marry Crystal? Will Victor de Marmont's political beliefs be exposed?

"The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days" by Emmuska Orczy Baroness Orczy is a 1915 novel set in a post-French-Revolution world. A romance that follows in the aftermath of Napoleon's takeover of France through the eyes of Crystal, the story's main character. A book full of romance and intrigue, the story will grip readers from the very first page.

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The intrigues of the royalist and those of the adepts of Napoleon Bonaparte. Story set during the French Revolution. The perfect calm of an early spring dawn lies over headland and sea hardly a ripple stirs the blue cheek of the bay. The softness of departing night lies upon the bosom of the Mediterranean like the dew upon the heart of a flower.

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