A reissue of a 1940 study of the twelve men appointed to the Committee of Public Safety in France in 1793 and their attempts to govern the country throughout a year of revolution, war, civil unrest, and foreign invasion.
Fourteen-year-old Desiree could not believe her good fortune. Her fiance, the dashing Napoleon Bonaparte, is poised for battlefield success and no longer will she be just a French merchant's daughter. But when her path unexpectedly changes, she becomes an ordinary girl whose brush with history leads to a throne no one would have expected.
Introduces the history, geography, people, culture, government, and economy of this European country that has made many contributions to western civilization and is undergoing significant social and economic changes.
