Gloria by George Frederic Turner

By ovithanos on July 24, 2024

Gloria is a hauntingly beautiful novel, set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. It tells the story of a young Englishwoman who falls in love with a French nobleman, only to be swept up in the bloody turmoil of the revolution. With its lyrical prose and poignant themes of love and sacrifice, this is a must-read for fans of historical romance.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Captain Lexa hesitated. "I think he was mad," he said at length. "When your aide brought the order of recall, Captain Hügelweiler swore that he had been sent to pursue and would continue to pursue as long as his legs carried his body, and his arms a rifle. The aide backed his orders with the King's name, but Hügelweiler harangued his men and bade all such as loved the good game of war follow him to the bitter end. An impossible position was created, and the aide-de-camp ordered Von Hügelweiler's arrest. Before, however, the order could be put into execution, the mutinous captain was ski-ing down a steep snow slope in the direction of the enemy."

"You should have fired on him," said Bilderbaum.

French Revolution, revolutionary movement that shook France between 1787 and 1799 and reached its first climax there in 1789—hence the conventional term "Revolution of 1789," denoting the end of the ancien régime in France and serving also to distinguish that event from the later French revolutions of 1830 and 1848.

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First Published 1910
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