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Hardcover 14 Days in July Book

ISBN: B0D935TRT8

ISBN13: 9798990687035

14 Days in July

1 July 1789, Paris - Two weeks before the Revolution France is undergoing a political upheaval unlike anything it has known before. Louis XVI is using savage mercenary forces and food blockages, to bring the people to heel. The country is a powder keg, and Paris is the fuse. In the midst of the bloody chaos, shadowy people- including the sinister and brutal chief of the Paris police-discover that a young Parisian laundress, Mich le Duvallier, is in possession of the proof of deadly, ancient secret that could shake France's monarchy to its core ... September 1654, Burgundy - 135 years before the Revolution A good-natured young man, an orphan, is mysteriously imprisoned with grotesque instructions to conceal his identity in such a way as to ensure he is to be forgotten for all time ... The dangerous secret: The man in the iron mask was not a pure invention of Alexandre Dumas. The rumour of the existence of twin boys being switched, one of whom to become Louis XIV, had been quietly speculated on for well over a hundred years by many high sources- among whom Voltaire, who secretly told friends he had seen the man unmasked, and saw he was the king's twin. But what no one wrote about, including Dumas, was the even more dangerous rumour that there was not only a switch but, as well, ... another lineage ...

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