Books set in the French Revolution!

[[Juliet]]

As the title suggests, I'm very interested in novels set in the French Revolution or, in any case, at the collapse of the Ancien Régime. I really loved Dangerous Liaisons by Laclos and The Three Musketeers by Dumas, but I was kind of looking for novels which directly concern the French monarchy: loads of plots, intrigues, treacheries, that kind of stuff. Do you have some titles, or even authors, to recommend?

[Dinkleberry2010]

Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities

[wessexgirl]

Try the wonderful A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel. A huge book, but excellent.

[[Juliet]]

Thank you, I will check it out :)

[kiki1982]

The Scarlet Pimpernel by baroness Orszy

I think 1793 by Hugo. That is at least the year Louis XVI got decapitated.

Dumas must have written something about the revolution. *looking for some stuff on the net* Yes! There would be a cycle starting with Joseph Balsamo that deals with the revolution. Joseph Balsamo, Le Colier de la Reine/The Queen's Necklace (deals with the beginnig of the end of the high nobility), Ange Pitou and La Comtesse de Charny/The Countess of Charny. Cycle or not, some characters reoccur. Some more: a trilogy featuring Les Blancs et les Bleus/The Whites and the Blues, Les Compagnons de Jéhu/The Comrades of Jéhu and Le Chevalier de Saint-Hermine/The Knight of Saint-Hermine. They deal with the year 1793 through to ascent of Napoleon in 1799.

Man, you've got me interested now!

[dfloyd]

They are called the Marie Antoinette Romances and there are about 6 novels which cover up to the execution of Marie Antoinette. They start when Marie Antoinette comes to France from Austria where she was a princess. While these novels are fiction, except for the characters invented by Dumas, they are historically correct. Some of their high points are: the death of Louis XV, the ascension of Louis XVI to the throne of France, the invasion of the fishmongers wives at Versailles, The flight of Louis to Varrene, The execution of Louis, the reign of terror headed by Robespierre. Of course there are many histories which are factual. One of the best is by the English historian,Christopher Hibbert. The revolt against the revolution in Chouan is covered by a Hugo novel called The 93. I e-mailed Dark Muse all the titles by Dumas some time ago. Send her a PM and see if she still has them.

[Eryk]

The Gods are Athirst (Les dieux ont soif) by Anatole France.

[[Juliet]]

Oh, thanks so much!
I wasn't expecting such an amount of replies XD

[Pecksie]

Diderot's 'The nun' (1796) is a half-earnest, half-satirical novel about a young girl forced to take the veil. I bought it a couple of months ago and haven't read it, yet but it looks interesting. It does seem to have a lot of intrigue.