A Favor for Marie Antoinette is the first novel in a series set amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution. This volume is set in 1789, a year that bridges both the Ancien Regime and the onset of the Revolution, which started in July of that year. The terrifying threat of the starvation of the ordinary people, together with the complex political and economic issues of the time, forms the backdrop to the pampered life of Sophie, Comtesse de Boise...