Veronique — Virginia Coffman

Set at one of the most dramatic, colorful and turbulent moments in history, Veronique is a major novel of suspense and romance.

Veronique de Vaudraye -- a young, romantic girl on noble family, destined for the Convent -- finds herself instead drawn irresistibly into the turmoil of political events which were to change her own life as dramatically as they changed the history of France.

Attracted to the cause of the poor and wretched -- and in love with the young artist and revolutionary Gilles Marsan -- she is thrust into the electric atmosphere of a Paris heady with the prospect of change. But when reform gives way to Robespierre and the Terror, Veronique is torn between her sympathy for the ideals of liberty and equality and her repugnance at the carnage and destruction around her, as the tumbrils grind daily through the streets to feed the insatiable guillotine. Against such a background, lavishly and excitingly evoked, her love for Gilles assumes a new intensity...