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A Parisian window and a soldier’s promise
In seventeenth century Paris Adele Catinat, daughter of a Huguenot cloth merchant, and Amory de Catinat, a noble officer in the Blue Guard, shelter a trooper’s dragoon quota as tensions rise with royal court intrigues. A New York American hunter learns Paris life while danger brews at Versailles with Mantellon’s schemes.
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Paris
Olne
Adele Catinat
Blue Guard
Louis XIV
Amory de Catinat
de Catinat
Adele
Major de Brissac
Father
Mercer Guild
Theophile Catinat
Rue St. Martin
Languedoc Blue Dragoons
Dalbert
de Beaupre
France
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