Marianne Elisabeth d'Asselnat, now Princess Sant'Anna. Translation of Marianne, les lauriers de flammes. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Translation © 1976 by William Heinemann Ltd. She is in charge of the historical section of the French journal Confidences, is the author of the Catherine series of historical romances set in medieval France, and was awarded the Prix Alexandre Dumas in 1973. Returning to Paris, she married Count Andre Benzoni di Costa in March 1953. Widowed in 1950, she moved to Casablanca for two years. Maurice Gallois in 1941, and they had two children. Juliette Benzoni was born and educated in Paris, studying at the Collège d'Hulet, then at the Institut Catholique, where she obtained a BA degree in philosophy, a license in law and in literature. Each of its predecessors has been enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of readers around the world. This sixth volume of Marianne's adventures will delight the reader who thrills to excitement and romance. Once she has delivered her message, Marianne's life again becomes a series of questions: Will she ever return to her homeland? Will she ever find the child who was separated from her? And her husband, where is he? Does he even live? Marianne: Crown of Fire is an adventure in the truest sense-it is a fascinating torrent of desire, courage, terror, and one woman's struggle to survive. Risking her life to see him, Marianne finds Napoleon suffering from strain and despair and eager to regain Marianne's devotion.

The vicious Russian writer finds Moscow drowned in a sea of fire and Marianne nursed to health by angels in the forms of other French-women trapped in this hostile country. When Jason is thrown in prison after a duel with the Cossack who several years earlier had ravished and branded Marianne, she is left alone amid the swarming mass of panicked humanity-or, rather, almost alone, as the gypsy witch embraces Marianne, then stabs her and leaves her to be trampled and swept away by the maddened throng.

The Moscow they reach has already fallen under siege, and its citizens' fear has turned perversely into self-immolation. Failing to allure him, she turns her witchery against Marianne. Shankhala offers no gratitude but shows a burning desire for Jason. Just inside the Russian border, they save the life of a beautiful young gypsy named Shankhala and take her with them. She is accompanied by her lover from New Orleans, Jason Beaufort, who has abandoned the charred hulk of his ship in the harbor of Constantinople to travel with her. Guarding with her life the secret she carries to save Napoleon, Marianne braves the barren steppes and hostile natives of Russia to deliver her message to the Emperor, who was once her lover.

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