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The Mistress of Shadows
France, on the eve of revolution.
She rose from the gutters of Paris, barefoot and starving, taught early that beauty could be both a curse and a weapon. When Versailles opened its golden gates to her, the court saw only another mistress - a fleeting indulgence for a bored king.
They were wrong.
Behind silk gowns and whispered endearments, she served another master: the secret revolutionary network determined to end the monarchy. As the king's confidante and lover, she gathered secrets no spy could reach. Maps, names, escape routes - even the hidden refuge of Queen Marie Antoinette herself.
History remembers the fall of the crown. It forgets the woman who loosened it.
She was never meant to be remembered. She was meant to end an era.