Mademoiselle de la Seiglière, Volume 2 (of 2)

by Jules Sandeau

"Mademoiselle de la Seiglière, Volume 2 (of 2)" by Jules Sandeau is a French novel published in 1847. After years of exile during the Revolution, the Marquis de la Seiglière and his daughter return to France only to discover their estate now belongs to their former tenant farmer. The widowed farmer awaits news of his only son, an officer who marched with Napoleon's army into Russia and has vanished without trace. Old loyalties and new claims collide in post-revolutionary France.