Wandering Jew, Part 1
Wandering Jew, Part 1
Paris, 1831. A dying man summons seven strangers to a crumbling mansion on therue de Grenelle, each bearing the name Rennepont but none knowing why. They aredescendants of a Huguenot family scattered by the dragonnades of Louis XIV, eacharriving from vastly different worlds: a Brazilian planter, a Russian princess, anAmerican sailor, a French ouvrière. What unites them is an inheritance, a fortunegrown massive in the hands of a Jewish banker over 150 years, and a deathbed wish tofinally disperse it. But Jesuits watch from the shadows, agents stationed acrosscontinents, determined to seize the fortune for the Church. Above it all, theWandering Jew himself wanders, immortal and weary, bound to protect these finalheirs until the last of them perishes. This is Book One of an epic that grippedFrance and helped topple a government: a sprawling, melodramatic, politicallyexplosive novel that reads like Dumas rewritten by a revolutionary.
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