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Bezig met laden... The One Thing Moredoor Anne Perry
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Fiction, Historical fiction, French revolution, Mystery, January 1793, a small group of Royalists plot to free Louis XVI just been sentenced to death, First published by Headline Book Publishing, 2000, 406 pp., First Italian edition under the title: "L'ombra della ghigliottina", Milano, Mondadori, 2002 A murder mystery and half-hearted twist of history set during the French Revolution. Suspenseful, but the conclusion is a rather weak soap-opera ramble. The descriptions of Paris streets and living conditions are evocative, and the infodumps kept to a minimum. Celie and the other characters carry the story, though not very vivid in their own right, and the political stance of the author is fairly balanced - humanity is paramount, not monarchy or the republic. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML:A royalist out to save Louis XVI from the guillotine is murdered in this mystery set in revolutionary France by a New York Timesâ??bestselling master. CĂ©lie Laurent stands in the convention hall of the French Republic, watching the deputies vote one by one. Most of them have just one word to say: "Death." As the night wears on, the outcome of the vote moves beyond doubt, and Louis XVI is condemned to the guillotine. CĂ©lie will have just four days to save the king's life. As the Revolution reaches a fever pitch, CĂ©lie falls in with a group of royalists who are willing to do whatever it takes to keep France from killing its king. Their plan is daring, but just might workâ??until the group's leader is murdered in cold blood. Somewhere among the royalists lies a traitor, and CĂ©lie and her friends must find him soon, lest they lose their heads before Louis loses his. From the New York Timesâ??bestselling author of the William Monk and Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, acclaimed for her atmospheric historical settings, The One Thing More is a fascinating tale of Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The central political thread running throughout the novel centres around moderate revolutionaries who think that the execution of the king, whatever his personal faults and the undoubted evils and injustices of the Ancien Régime, is an act of barbarism which will bring all the surrounding countries invading and tearing France apart, as was indeed the case. The novel has interesting and thoughtful things to say about how revolutions in seeking to destroy all that went before them, the evil and the good, so often end up not replacing them with values and institutions that are better than their abolished predecessors. As one of the non-political characters says, "All I want is safe streets and food in the shops...... I don’t care whether it’s the King, or Marat or the Commune, or who it is. And I think most of the women in France feel the same. What’s a revolution for if we’re all still cold and hungry, and scared stiff of our neighbours in case they take a dislike to us and make a false report to some Section Leader, and the next thing you know, we’re charged with something?". The fanaticism of the Jacobins is well illustrated by an oration by the cold Louis Saint Just: "The vessel of the revolution can arrive in port only on a sea reddened with torrents of blood! .....We must not only punish traitors, but all people who are not enthusiastic. There are only two kinds of citizen, the good and the bad. The republic owes the good its protections. To the bad it owes only death!". As Célie Laurent observes of the humourlessness of the radicals, "Was it really necessary to be humourless in order to be good? Could one not possibly bring about social change for the better, and still keep the ability to see the absurd, and to laugh at it?". A really gripping novel, though I am puzzled by its banal and seemingly meaningless title, what is that all about?. ( )