Asylum for the Queen by Mildred Jordan (1948)

Asylum for the Queen
by Mildred Jordan
Publisher:  Alfred A. Knopf
Copyright:  1948
Book Club Edition

Today a simple stone marker near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, identifies the spot once known as Asylum, but in the year 1796 a great French colony thrived there.  In that American wilderness, amid silks and satins, snobbery and intrigue, lived the last remnants of Marie Antoinette's pleasure-loving court.  Robbed of their estates and exiled by the revolution, those bitter Bourbon aristocrats plotted one of the most daring rescue missions of history -- plotted to remove Marie and the young Dauphin from their French prison and bring them to America until they could be returned triumphant to the throne.  Taking for her background this little-known and still unsolved episode in French-American history, the famous author of One Red Rose Forever writes a gripping, suspenseful novel that in its telling brings alive one of the year's most tender and beautiful love stories.

Fully aware of the plot to enthrone the young Dauphin, the new revolutionary government sent a loyal and trusted spy to America to uncover the conspirator's plans.  That agent was beautiful Nicole Lauvenne, a young and intelligent peasant girl who had suffered great tragedy at the hands of the hated Bourbons -- a girl willing to make any sacrifice to keep them from returning to power.

Nothing has been revealed in this short description of Asylum for the Queen which will distract from the thrilling reading treat that awaits you.  It is a full-bodied, tightly-plotted novel, filled with believable characters who come to life before your eyes -- beautiful, evil Victorie who destroyed those she could not dominate; fearless Aristide, as capable in the wilderness as he had once been as an admiral; lovely Sylvie who lived for dancing and love; Tallyrand, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and a host of others.  But it is Nicole, the central figure in this unusual novel, who will linger in your memory as one of the truly great heroines of fiction.  Her courage, her beauty, her strength of character and deep capacity for love and pity, combine to make her one of the most appealing and memorable women in all literature.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  No dust cover.  Covers show a bit of scuffing and edge wear.  Pages are tanned and darkening from age.  Previous owner's name is blacked out on the front endpaper with the date and book club written underneath.  There's an envelope pasted to the front endpaper as a way to keep track of her books.

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