The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious Persecution by John Bloundelle-Burton

Description

With all the pomp and ceremony that should attend the dying hours of a great lady of France, the Princesse de Rochebazon — the Marquise du Gast d’Ançilly, the Comtesse de Montrachet, the Baronne de Beauvilliers, possessor of half the titles of the French peerage — draws near her end. Into her dying presence rides a young Englishman, Martin Ashurst, her favourite and the hope of her house. John Bloundelle-Burton’s novel thus begins among the dignities of the old France of Louis XIV — and then moves, by the coach roads and the gates of Paris, into a France where faith itself has become a matter of life and death, as the king’s dragoons are let loose upon the Huguenots.

Bloundelle-Burton was one of the finest of late-Victorian writers of historical romance, and the religious persecution that gives this novel its title is handled with real seriousness as well as excitement: the escorted berline at the North Gate, the terror of the reformed households, and the loyalties that a young man must weigh against his love. A romance of faith, honour, and the France of the great persecutions, and one of his finest works.

Why readers still come back to it

• An affecting romance set amid the French persecutions of the Huguenots
• The France of Louis XIV brought to life by a master of historic romance
• Love and religious duty weighed in earnest, with the style to match

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