Description
It’s 1867, when Dynamite replaces duels. Victor Hugo is exiled, and France is an effective dictatorship. In Gothic Lectoure, Simone Beaufort, a secretive, Parisian entrepreneur employs Patrice, a rebel on-the-run. Acting as a manservant, he discovers her perverse relationship with her estranged husband, Jessai, the Third Empire’s Minister for Simone obsessed with securing a railway for her project, Patrice strikes up a fractious, erotic and doomed romance that could derail her attempted divorce, and end his life at the