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100	1		_aDaudet, Ernest, _d1837-1921
245	1	2	_aL'espionne
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-11-09
508			_aLaurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
520			_a"L'espionne" by Ernest Daudet is a historical novel written in the early 20th century. Set amid émigré politics at the close of the 18th century, it follows the alluring and calculating Comtesse de Bonneuil—an unofficial agent for Fouché—and her innocent niece Marguerite as they navigate espionage, loyalty, and manipulation. The plot pivots on a mission to delay the dashing Duc de Maligny, intertwining seduction, statecraft, and moral risk. The opening of the novel paints bustling Hamburg in 1799, crowded with émigrés, diplomats, couriers, and spies, while a café debate over Bonaparte frames the tension. The Comtesse de Bonneuil and her niece arrive at the Hôtel de Saint-Pétersbourg, observed by a quiet onlooker who slips across to meet them: Rivarennes, an agent of Fouché. He urges Bonneuil to keep the Duc de Maligny in Hamburg so he cannot promptly deliver a royal command that would halt an assassination plot; the police mean to let the conspirators proceed into France and arrest them at the border. Bonneuil hesitates, wary of the means and of jeopardizing her Russian patronage, while Rivarennes presses and hints at “any extremity.” Interwoven is Marguerite’s backstory—an orphaned émigrée raised briefly in Augsburg, then swept into her aunt’s luxurious yet suspect world in Madrid, Paris, and St. Petersburg—leaving her virtuous and quietly appalled. Back in the hotel, she overhears her aunt bargaining for Marguerite’s removal from the émigré list and a dowry as payment. The section ends with the sudden arrival of a snow-covered chaise bearing the Duc de Maligny and a French actress, setting the trap in motion. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cParis: Paul Ollendorff, 1905
653			_aFrench fiction -- 20th century
856	4		_uhttps://books.google.fr/books?id=L78OAAAAYAAJ
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77201
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