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During the French Revolution, scullery maid and avid reader Marie-Laure Vernet succumbs to forbidden passion with Viscount Joseph d'Auvers-Raimond, a smuggler of forbidden books, against a backdrop of murder and betrayal. Original. 35,000 first printing.