Elena Maria Vidal An historical novel on the French Revolutionary Age This intriging story deals in particular with the daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and the search for her little lost brother All of the major characters were real people and the situations are based on fact Madame Royale was written as a response to readers of Trianon who wanted to know What happened to the daughter and more about the surviving personages of the story The period which follows the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte called by historians the Bourbon restoration 1814 1830 was outwardly one of rest and peace for France Yet beneath the surface the forces of revolution were engaged in a ruthless duel for power with those of the reaction The conflict played out in salons and boudoirs in newspapers novels and pamphlets was nevertheless a fight to the death from which one party would emerge the conqueror while the other would sink into the oubliette of exile or imprisonment The L