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A Sheaf of Bluebells
Set in Napoleonic France, it follows the bitter conflicts between returned Royalist exiles and Bonaparte's followers.
"A Sheaf of Bluebells" by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy is a novel. Set in Napoleonic France, it follows the bitter conflicts between returned Royalist exiles and Bonaparte's followers.
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Among the many petitions presented that year by émigrés desirous of returning to France under the conditional amnesty granted to them by the newly-crowned Emperor, was one signed by Mme. la Marquise de Mortain and by her son Laurent, then aged twenty-one years, and one signed by M. le Comte de Courson for himself and his daughter Fernande. Gaillard says in his memoirs of Fouché that the latter was greatly averse to the petition being granted; but that Napoleon, then on the point of starting for his campaign in Prussia, was inclined to leniency in this matter—leniency which roused the ire and contempt of the Minister of Police—the man who, of a truth, and above the Emperor himself, was virtual dictator of France these days.
"A brood of plotters and intriguers," he said scornfully. "I should have thought your Majesty had had enough of those soi-disant great ladies and gentlemen of Normandy and Brittany. I wouldn't have them inside these dominions if I had my way."
It seems that this phrase: "If I had my way," highly amused the Emperor. Was it not a well-known fact that in all matters pertaining to the internal organization of the new Empire of France, Fouché ruled far more absolutely than did Napoleon? He knew more. He suspected more. Minister of Police and Minister of the Interior at this time, Fouché had made himself feared even—so it was said—by his imperial and capricious master.
Contents
- 01Chapter I the Masters of France
- 02Chapter II the Return of the Natives
- 03Chapter III the Hermits of La Vieuville
- 04Chapter IV Kindred
- 05Chapter V the Springtime of the Year
- 06Chapter VI the Legend of St. Front
- 07Chapter VII the Silent Pool
- 08Chapter VIII the General
- 09Chapter IX the Cooing of the Pigeons
- 10Chapter X the Foundries of La Frontenay
- 11Chapter XI the First Trick
- 12Chapter XII a Fool and His Folly
- 13Chapter XIII After a Year
- 14Chapter XIV the Tool
- 15Chapter XV a Note of Warning
- 16Chapter XVI the Irreparable
- 17Chapter XVII a Last Appeal
- 18Chapter XVIII the Word of the Master
- 19Chapter XIX the Parting of the Ways
- 20Chapter XX the Straw
- 21Chapter XXI the Crash of the Storm
- 22Chapter XXII Heaven and Earth
- 23Chapter XXIII an Hour's Folly
- 24Chapter XXIV After the Storm
- 25Chapter XXV the White Pigeon
About this edition
- Author
- Baroness Emmuska Orczy
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 398 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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