A Novel About a Young Officer in Paris

Napoleon is a young man of pale and livid complexion. As a young officer in the south of france, he had a brief relationship with a merchant's daughter named desiree clary. For the emotionally fragile napoleon, it was an experience so profound that he was compelled to write a novel about it. The heady summer of 17 95 presents a calm before yet another storm. There is a counter revolution brewing. 30 thousand people massed in central paris intent on storming the tuilerie palace which is now the seat of republican government. After a two hours street brawl near the church of saint roc the insurrectionist headquarters, napoleon wheels up his guns. He