The Dahomean
by Frank Yerby | 
The Saracen Blade
by Frank Yerby | 
Fairoaks
by Frank Yerby | 
A Woman Called Fancy
by Frank Yerby | 
The Paris Architect
by Charles Belfoure | 
Mademoiselle Chanel
by C. W. Gortner | 
Little
by Edward Carey | 
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
by C. W. Gortner | 
The French Mistress
by Susan Holloway Scott | 
Segu
by Maryse Conde | 
Watermark
by Vanitha Sankaran | 
The Breaking of Eggs
by Jim Powell | 
The Queen's Lover
by Vanora Bennett | 
The King's Women
by Dinah Lampitt | 
Madame Bovary's Daughter
by Linda Urbach | 
The House I Loved
by Tatiana de Rosnay | 
Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
by Kate Taylor | 
The Dream Lover
by Elizabeth Berg | 
In the Fabled East
by Adam Lewis Schroeder | 
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett |
Down the street came a parade of children; they were beating a small keg for a drum and playing homemade flutes. And on the ends of improvised pikes, they bore the heads of three cats, still dripping blood. After witnessing the continuing spectacle of human heads being daily paraded through Parisian streets, the French children had become little monsters. Paris was so filled with hatred for everyone and everything that reason, itself, stood decapitated. So during the French Revolution, Parisians and their society sank into abject depravity. This was the society that Jean Paul Marin, who at the age of twenty, was beaten and imprisoned by the noble class and by the age of twenty five helped create the inhumane society required for the great bloodletting of the Napoleonic wars.