In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy
1888
In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy
1888
In 1789, Harry Sandwith leaves Westminster School for the estate of a French marquis, seeking adventure in a nation on the brink. But the revolution that begins as excitement curdles into something murderous, and Harry finds himself trapped in Paris during the Reign of Terror. The marquis falls to the guillotine. The family scatters. And suddenly the boy from England is alone, responsible for three young daughters of the house, fleeing through streets where informers lurk and the tumbrel carts rumble toward the Place de la Révolution. Henty crafts a breathless adventure where courage means not grand gestures but quiet endurance: hiding in cellars, bribing guards, outrunning pursuers. It's a boy's-own adventure wrapped around a genuinely harrowing survival story, and the historical texture is vivid enough to smell the chalk dust of the Convention and the iron tang of blood. For readers who want history that feels alive and danger that feels real.
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