"I finally remember you." He says after a few minutes of silence. "I couldn't put my finger on it. I thought you were a new girl, but I know who you are." Brandy Collins' daughter. "You're the girl Marianna introduced me to the last day of school last year." Oh crud. "So?" I said. He walks up to me and puts his bla...
The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in L...