Set against the backdrop of post-war France, Zibeline blends romance, mystery, and social satire as a bold heiress defies the rigid structures of aristocratic Paris. With her beauty and fortune stirring both admiration and suspicion, Zibeline becomes the object of fascination and derision-until her true motives emerge. What follows is a sweeping tale of honor, deception, and emotional awakening between a woman who conceals her past and a soldier shaped by it.
Alexandre-Philippe-Regnier de Massa (1831-1911) was a French soldier, composer, dramatist, and novelist. Zibeline, crowned by the Academie Francaise, is about a brilliant and unconventional American girl as seen through the eyes of a Frenchman.