The Bronze Eagle by Baroness Orczy Juvenile Fiction, Action & Adventure
by Baroness Orczy and Emmuska Orczy
Looky Rating System: Violence 0/5, Love & Romance 0/5, Mental Health 0/5, Language 0/5, Substance Use 0/5, Fear / Horror 0/5, Fantasy / Supernatural 0/5, LGBTQ+ Representation 0/5.
Description
A crowd had gathered on the headland now -- a crowd made up of barefooted fisher-folk, men, women, children, and of the laborers from the neighboring fields and vineyards: they have all come to greet the Emperor -- the man with the battered hat and the grey redingote, the curious, flashing eyes and mouth that always spoke genial words to the people of France! Traitors turned against him -- Ney! de Marmont! Bernadotte! those on whom he had showered the full measure of his friendship, whom he had...