Robert Tournay: A Romance of the French Revolution

The narrative follows a young man who comes to Paris and becomes entangled with aristocratic families and revolutionary politics, moving between drawing-room intrigues, popular uprisings, and dangerous encounters. Episodes depict domestic scenes, a fraught breakfast at an influential salon, arrest and transport on a prison boat, escapes across the frontier, concealed identities and masked motives, and a contested romance strained by shifting loyalties. The work pairs romantic adventure with reflections on honor, political conviction, and the social upheaval that leads into the period of terror and its aftermath.