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Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise

Charlotte M. Yonge

The narrative revolves around Margaret, the daughter of a feudal lord, who transitions from her English upbringing to the complexities of life in France amidst political turmoil and the shifting tides of society during the Fronde.

"Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise" by Charlotte Yonge is a historical novel. The narrative revolves around Margaret, the daughter of a feudal lord, who transitions from her English upbringing to the complexities of life in France amidst political turmoil and the shifting tides of society during the Fronde.

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I have long promised you, my dear grandchildren, to arrange my recollections of the eventful years that even your father can hardly remember. I shall be glad thus to draw closer the bonds between ourselves and the English kindred, whom I love so heartily, though I may never hope to see them in this world, far less the dear old home where I grew up.

For, as perhaps you have forgotten, I am an English woman by birth, having first seen the light at Walwyn House, in Dorsetshire. One brother had preceded me—my dear Eustace—and another brother, Berenger, and my little sister, Annora, followed me.

Our family had property both in England and in Picardy, and it was while attending to some business connected with the French estate that my father had fallen in love with a beautiful young widow, Madame la Baronne de Solivet (nee Cheverny), and had brought her home, in spite of the opposition of her relations. I cannot tell whether she were warmly welcomed at Walwyn Court by any one but the dear beautiful grandmother, a Frenchwoman herself, who was delighted again to hear her mother tongue, although she had suffered much among the Huguenots in her youth, when her husband was left for dead on the S. Barthelemi.

Contents

  1. 01Preface
  2. 02Stray Pearls
  3. 03Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise
  4. 04Chapter I. — Whitehall Before the Cobwebs.
  5. 05Chapter II. — a Little Mutual Aversion.
  6. 06Chapter III. — Celadon and Chloe
  7. 07Chapter IV. — the Salon Bleu
  8. 08Chapter V. — in Garrison.
  9. 09Chapter VI. — Victory Dearly Bought
  10. 10Chapter VII. — Widow and Wife
  11. 11Chapter VIII. — Marguerite to the Rescue.
  12. 12Chapter IX. — the Firebrand of the Bocage.
  13. 13Chapter X. — Old Threads Taken Up.
  14. 14Chapter XI. — the Two Queens.
  15. 15Chapter XII. — Cavaliers in Exile.
  16. 16Chapter XIII. — Mademoiselle’s Toilette.
  17. 17Chapter XIV. — Court Appointment
  18. 18Chapter XV. — a Stranger Thanksgiving Day.
  19. 19Chapter XVI. — the Barricades
  20. 20Chapter XVII. — a Patient Grisel
  21. 21Chapter XVIII. — Twelfth Night, or What You Will.
  22. 22Chapter XIX. — Inside Paris
  23. 23Annora’s narrative.
  24. 24Chapter XX. — Condolence
  25. 25(By Margaret)
  26. 26Chapter XXI. — St. Margaret and the Dragon
  27. 27Chapter XXII. — St. Margaret and the Dragon
  28. 28(By Annora)
  29. 29Chapter XXIII. — the Lion and the Mouse
  30. 30Chapter XXIV. — Family Honour
  31. 31Chapter XXV. — the Hague
  32. 32Chapter XXVI. — Hunderslust
  33. 33Chapter XXVII. — the Expedient
  34. 34(Annora’s Narrative)
  35. 35Chapter XXVIII. — the Boeuf Gras
  36. 36(Annora’s Narrative)
  37. 37Chapter XXIX. — Madame’s Opportunity
  38. 38(Annora’s Narrative)
  39. 39Chapter XXX. — the New Maid of Orleans
  40. 40(Margaret’s Narrative)
  41. 41Chapter XXXI. — Porte St. Antoine
  42. 42(Margaret’s Narrative)
  43. 43Chapter XXXII. — Escape
  44. 44(Annora’s Narrative)
  45. 45Chapter XXXIII. — Bridal Pearls
  46. 46Chapter XXXIV. — Annora’s Home

About this edition

Author
Charlotte M. Yonge
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
229 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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