Angelique In Love

by Anne Golon

Book Overview

On a vessel seething with unregulated emotions, Angelique is caught between her regard for Maitre Berne, her master and friend among the La Rochelle Protestants whom she has helped to escape from the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000MIQODC
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of the most satisfying books in a superb series

A small, overcrowded square-rigger, manned by a crew of renegades and carrying an unexpected load of Hugenaut refugees fleeing the persecutions of Louis XIV's France, battles through the late Autumn waves of the Atlantic on the perilous voyage to the New World.This claustraphobic environment is the setting for one of the most satisfying books in the magnificent Angelique series. On a vessel seething with unregulated emotions, Angelique is caught between her regard for Maitre Berne, her master and friend among the La Rochelle Protestants whom she has helped to escape from the king's dragoons, and her fascination for the enegmatic Rescator, pirate and renegade who had bought her for a king's ransom in the slave markets of Candia, only to see her escape into further perils.What is the secret that links Angelique, once desired by the king, now a battered fugitive, and the renegade?As tensions mount between the God-fearing refugees and their rough and ready saviours Rescator's secret is revealed - too late to halt the mutiny that shatters lives and places every one in the vessel in mortal peril.Anne Golon's art in setting an entire book on board a tiny ship, her interplay of characters and exposition of human emotions makes this a classic book that demands you keep reading until the last, truly satisfying, page is turned.

The best romantic novel in my life forever

I was born in Russia but now I am living in the United States. I am sure that my decision to go to the New Woirld was partly influenced by Angelique. During 25 years , since I was 13 , I have read and re-read dozens of times all available books about Angelique. She is my friend, my sister. When melancholy and depression visit me I read Angelique Et Son Amour (Angelique In Love) or Countess Angelique (in Russian translation it was Angelique In The New World) which are my favorite. Power of her love, her strength and faith in happiness encourage me a lot. I never feel alone because I have Angelique. And her husband, Joffrey de Peyrac. Any woman dreams to be loved by such a man even if in her most bold dreams , does she not?I wish one day there will be movies made after these incredible novels . But not like those old movies with Mochelle Mercier. Her Angelique was beautiful but empty,and Rober Ossein, as Joffrey de Peyrac, did not fit a role a bit (I think Timothy Dalton would be much better in that role).I love you, Angelique. Live forever.

Rescators Story

I have been waiting and waiting to re-read this book, knowing full well that at last many of the secrets of the 5 preceding stories will finally be revealed. Whereas the other 5 books posed all the questions and laid many clues, very few were ever answered - but then, if they had been would we have wanted to read on? The authors were cunning in the way they centred on Angelique - why wouldn't they, she is after all the person named in each book title. But would it not have been just as simple to have had a parallel theme running telling us what was happening with Rescator at the same time - of course not - Rescator? A pirate? to be mentioned in the same breath as a great Lady of Versailles, the Rebel of Poitou? But their lives where running parallel - we first hear of him as the scoundrel who caused Angelique unbearable grief by killing her young son - Cantor. Then he has the unmitigated cheek to outbid the noble Knights of Malta at the Candia slave market for her and then, as if all that is not enough, he turns up in the nick of time when Angelique could really have done with having a man as powerful as her first husband, Joffrey, had been around - to get her and her friends away from the shores of La Rochelle to some safe haven. Instead it is to Rescator that Angelique has to go and beg for help, if she'd had a powerful husband she would merely have needed to express the whim - hang on! If she'd still got a rich and powerful husband she wouldn't be there would she? I love the way the authors tangle me up in knots - so, as has already been revealed in previous reviews, at last we are given the confirmation that Rescator - is indeed Joffrey. As the story unfolds, we the readers, are priveliged to get an insight into his past and all the parallels drawn are credible without ever going over the top. Even the near "miraculous" disappearance of his most obvious feature - the limp. But there is more here than just Rescators' story - there is bewilderment. On Angeliques side, that the one and only thing that had kept her going was her burning love for a man she had only known for such a short time, by whom she'd had two sons and who had snatched from her before the love had had an opportunity to develop into something even more meaningful, had suddenly been manifsted before her and she had not even recognised him!. At the same time, having revealed his alter ego to her - she, who believes him to have to be responsible for the death of their younger son, is unable to tell him what she believes he has done. He on the other side, despite having spies everywhere and kept up with her movements, knows only the factual aspects of what has been happening to her, and looks at them as they are presented to him on face value, not knowing nor seemingly wishing to understand her deep-rooted reasons for what had been happening to her. Gradually, all but a few are painfully eked out, but how like a man, Rescator no

The greatest love story of all time.

In 1970, as a teenager, I first read Angelique. I have all 9 paperbacks and reread them every year. (Yes, 28 times) Each time (though Lord knows I know exactly what is in store) I sob when the Recscator reveals himself and later when she sees the "native boys" riding the waves. To catagorize this series as "Romance" ignores the wealth of research of Serge and Anne Golon as well as their insight into the dynamics of a remarkable couple in remarkable times. Whenever I face hard times, I reach for Angelique and lose myself in the her world, her challenges, heartbreak, determination and courage and take on the world with her relentless green-eyed determination. I automatically search the "Romance" section...find the "G's" and hope for one more adventure. If there are more after Angelique and the Ghosts, would someone PLEASE translate and publish them! What happens in Quebec? What happens after that, and after that? I would love to see the films based on Angelique series, are they available? I wrote a reasearch paper recently on the Leading Ladies of Versailles...de la Valliere, Montespan and Maintenon. Without Sergeanne Golon's Angelique de Sance de Monteloup, de Peyrac, du Plessis-Blliere, de Peyrac, the greatest of them all, I would have never known the world of Louis XIV and experienced the joy of studying this amazing century. Long live Angelique!

The Best Book of a Great Series

In the follow-on to "Angélique in Revolt," our heroine finds herself traveling to the New World aboard the ship of the pirate, Rescator. It is no surprise to the reader by this time that Rescator is actually Angélique's long-lost husband, Joffrey de Peyrac. The enjoyment of this book is in seeing the couple attempt to reconcile their complex feelings for each other. Of the entire superb Angélique series, this book is my personal favorite. Anne Golon gets into the heads of both men and women in this most introspective book. It is maybe the only romantic novel I can think of which is told with equal clarity and strength from the point of view of both the man and the woman. One of the best books I have ever read!