A mysterious grand master of a secret society travels France in a living-wagon with his entranced companion Lorenza, using mesmerism and prophecy to work on the powerful. Around him move the impoverished Taverney family and their daughter Andrée, the young peasant Gilbert, the arriving dauphine Marie Antoinette and the court of Madame du Barry.
The opening of Dumas’s Marie Antoinette romances, in a single-volume American English version of 1891. Download the free EPUB.