Louis Aragon — Holy Week (La Semaine Sainte)

Hamish Hamilton 1961 Hardback, 467pp. "Napoleon has landed from Elba and is marching toward Paris, "the Eagle flying from steeple to steeple," his army increasing every hour. Louis XVIII has assured his dear people of Paris that he will never abandon them. On the gray and rainy afternoon of Palm Sunday a monstrous coach sweeps out of the courtyard of the Tuileries and heads north. Surrounded by his troops of Musketeers, it carries the fleeing King. Behind follows a train of jostling coaches and carriages, wagons and berlins, wives and mistresses, newly returned nobles and Marshals remembering their days of glory. The Royal Household is following its master. DJ. Dust jacket worn, tears and small pice missing at the spine.". Good.