num_pages: 432
description: A powerful engrossing story of a biracial heiress who escapes to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution.Sylvie de Rosiers as the daughter of a rich planter and an enslaved woman enjoys the comforts of a lady in 1791 Saint-Domingue society. But while she was born to privilege she was never fully accepted by island elites. After a violent rebellion begins the Haitian Revolution Sylvie and her brother leave their family and old lives behind to flee unwittingly into another uprisingin austere and radical Paris. Sylvie quickly becomes enamored with the aims of the Revolution as well as with the revolutionaries themselvesmost notably Maximilien Robespierre and his mistress Cornlie Duplay. As a rising leader and abolitionist Robespierre sees an opportunity to exploit Sylvies race and abandonment of her aristocratic roots as an example of his ideals while the strong-willed Cornlie offers Sylvie safe harbor and guidance in free thought. Sylvie battles with her past complicity in a slave society and her future within this new world order as she finds herself increasingly torn between Robespierre's ideology and Cornlie's love. When the Reign of Terror descends Sylvie must decide whether to become an accomplice while a new empire rises on the bones of innocentsor risk losing her head.
language: English
title: Mademoiselle Revolution
publisher: Berkley