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"Baroness Orczy has returned to France i the days of the Revolution for her inspiration for 'A Sheaf of Bluebells.' Here she sets brother against brother, son against mother, sweetheart against lover, while Royalists and Napoleonists struggle for supremacy in the land. The hero of the novel is an uncouth worshiper of Napoleon, who finds in his aristocratic Royalist mother, from whom he has long been separated, one of his greatest enemies. How sweetness is brought into his life through a beautiful girl, while he makes the supreme sacrifice for the man he follows, gives the most significant point to the tale." -Book News "Very exciting is this story of royalist plotting during the period following the coronation of Napoleon I. The arch-plotter is a widow, a French marquise, one of whose sons, to his mother's exasperation, has fought for, and is loyal to, Napoleon. The other son, by a later marriage, is a royalist and helps the marquise in her political intrigues. An armament factory, the property of the imperialist son, who provides munitions for the Emperor's use, is the scene of some of the most thrilling episodes in the book. The plot is ingenious, and is well worked out by the author, whose able handling of similar themes is familiar to a wide circle of readers." -The Athenaeum "Romance of bloodshed and intrigue in France in the days of Napoleon." -Publishers Weekly