Loss of Innocence

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Early Summer 1789

The Bordeaux Valley, Château de Beaumont

 The young rider urged his mount on, propelled by the thunderheads building on the distant horizon and by his need to reach the Château de Beaumont to inform its countess, Eugénie Devereux, about what he had learned.
Sitting alone in her sun-drenched garden, Comtesse de Beaumont was unaware of the gathering storm. She was the last in a long and proud lineage dating back to the reign of Charlemagne when the emperor rewarded her ancestor’s loyalty with substantial holdings in the Bordeaux valley. Down through the generations, the de Beaumonts’ fidelity and political astuteness were invaluable to the reigning powers of France. Groomed from an early age by a doting mother and father, Eugénie Devereux assumed the mantle of responsibility at the time of their premature death and carried it lightly on her young shoulders. Now, no longer a young maid, she is a woman in the prime of life, a person of influence and an active member of the nobility’s inner circle.