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by Gilbert Parker
This book is missing it's dust cover and has some wear to the covers and signs of age to some interior pages (see pictures). Binding is good.
The scene of this romance is laid in the Isle of Jersey during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The principal characters in the story are a pair of Huguenot lovers named Michel de la Foret and Angele Aubert who have been forced to flee from France. Angele with her family precedes her lover to the Island of Jersey and there awaits his coming. Before his arrival she is sought in marriage by the Seigneur of Rozel, a big and blustering, but kind-hearted man, and when she declines the honor he has done her he tells her he will remain her true friend. The ship which is bringing Michel to his expectant betrothed is overtaken by a storm and wrecked within sight of land and those waiting to welcome him. Michel and his companion, a pirate named Buonespoir, are thrown into the sea where they would have perished had not the Seigneur of Rozel manned a boat and brought about their rescue. The re-united lovers have but a short time to enjoy their happiness as their intercourse is rudely interrupted by the arrest of Michel by the order of Queen Elizabeth. The cause of this edict is that Michel, who was an officer in the army of Comte Gabriel de Montgomery, who was slain by the Medici, is an innocent victim of the latter’s rage. Catherine de Medici requests Elizabeth to render him into their hands and she in order to keep on good terms with France accedes to the other’s request. Michel is taken to London where he is on trial for his life and is finally pardoned by Elizabeth. His two friends the Seigneur of Rozel and Buonespoir follow him to London and work faithfully for his release. Angele also intercedes with the Queen and does everything in her power to save her lover’s life. After his acquittal Michel and Angele are married and return to the Isle of Jersey. After seven years of happiness Angele and her baby die of the plague and Michel, who prefers death to life, is killed in combat a year later. Bartleby
Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC (23 November 1862 – 6 September 1932), known as Gilbert Parker was a Canadian novelist and British politician. The best of his novels are those in which he first took for his subject the history and life of the French Canadians; and his permanent literary reputation rests on the fine quality, descriptive and dramatic, of his Canadian stories. He was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain J. Parker, R.A.
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