1793. After the execution of King Louis XVI, all of Europe turned against France. England massed along its shores, Spain pressed up toward the Pyrenees, Austria and Piedmont stood by the Alpine mountains, while the Dutch and Prussians drove in from the north. The main target is Paris—where, in a grim dungeon, the unfortunate Queen Marie Antoinette’s heart is still beating, though fate, alas, is almost predetermined. Waiting is no longer possible. A group of conspiratorial royalists, teetering literally on the blade of the guillotine, decides to stake everything. What will their audacious attempt to save the king’s widow bring them?
“Chevalier de Maison-Rouge” is a peculiar epilogue to the great tetralogy “Notes of a Physician.”