Marthe Simone grew up in the chateau as an orphan and teaches there. On several subsequent trips to France during the war, she starts a love affair with a French soldier, demands a divorce, and converts Chavaniac into a clinic for children at risk from tuberculosis. and starts an aggressive fund-raising effort to support the war. When WWI breaks out, she narrowly escapes back to the U.S. In 1914, Beatrice Astor Chanler, a former actor with a mysterious past, hurries to France to visit her estranged, millionaire husband. But the shifting winds of the French Revolution require sacrifice and bravery from Adrienne, who attempts to find safety in their newly built Château de Chavaniac. A few years later, he travels to America to join the American Revolution and returns to France a hero. In 1774, Gilbert du Motier, a marquis, marries Adrienne. Three women survive various wars in this ambitious, centuries-spanning outing from Dray ( My Dear Hamilton).
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