num_pages: 560
description: Six bestselling and award-winning authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes desires and destinies of princesses and peasants harlots and wives fanatics and philosopherssix unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative events in history: the French Revolution.Ribbons of Scarlet is a timely story of the power of women to start a revolutionand change the world.In late eighteenth-century France women do not have a place in politics. But as the tide of revolution rises women from gilded salons to the streets of Paris decide otherwiseupending a world order that has long oppressed them.Blue-blooded Sophie de Grouchy believes in democracy education and equal rights for women and marries the only man in Paris who agrees. Emboldened to fight the injustices of King Louis XVI Sophie aims to prove that an educated populace can govern itself--but one of her students fruit-seller Louise Audu is hungrier for bread and vengeance than learning. When the Bastille falls and Louise leads a womens march to Versailles the monarchy is forced to bend but not without a fight. The kings pious sister Princess Elisabeth takes a stand to defend her brother spirit her family to safety and restore the old order even at the risk of her head.But when fanatics use the newspapers to twist the revolutions ideals into a new tyranny even the women who toppled the monarchy are threatened by the guillotine. Putting her faith in the pen brilliant political wife Manon Roland tries to write a way out of Frances blood-soaked Reign of Terror while pike-bearing Pauline Leon and steely Charlotte Corday embrace violence as the only way to save the nation. With justice corrupted by revenge all the women must make impossible choices to survive--unless unlikely heroine and courtesans daughter Emilie de Sainte-Amaranthe can sway the man who controls Frances fate: the fearsome Robespierre.
language: English
title: Ribbons of Scarlet
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks