The Mistress From Chandernagore Av A. B. De M. Hunter

<p>What is a poor teenage girl from the French settlement in India to do, betrayed by her husband, her family separated by war and given up by a patron whose duel marked the end of his India career? In this, the first biography of Mme Talleyrand, Alex Hunter explores the life of a figure of history that deserves to have her story told, not just in the footnotes.</p><p>In seeking a new life, Catherine must learn how to make it in a man¿s world. She becomes attached to a young Englishman with troubles enough of his own. They escape to Paris and enjoy the salad days of Louis XVI¿s cultured society until her lover¿s career move once more leaves Catherine to her own devices. No longer a na¿ teenager, she cultivates her society connections, careless of the gathering revolutionary storm. Unprepared for the bloody insurrection of 10^th August 1792, she flees to England where she finds a freebooter prepared to help her, for a price, and is introduced to the nascent British secret ser