While in Paris, she visited Louis Blanc
's tailoring workshop, Blanqui's Club
, and saw the christening of the Second Republic (which had been declared on 24 February) on 4 May from the Tuileries Gardens...
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Ishmael is set in Brittany and Paris, mainly between 1850 and 1867, during the reign of Louis Napoleon
. The title character is the son of a Breton aristocrat, despised by his father on...