Word: theuriet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the French Revolution, Rémi Saint-Victor and the Marquise Corinne de Theuriet narrowly missed appointments with the guillotine. Now, after four years' imprisonment, Remi is back at the Polytechnic Institute where he had been Lavoisier's prize pupil; the marquise is the wife of complaisant General Rouvroy and the mistress of scoundrelly Jardinier, a British spy, black-marketeer and confidant of the great. On the night of Talleyrand's great ball for Napoleon and Josephine, the eyes of Rémi and Corinne meet across a crowded room: "He saw her catch her breath...
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