Marianne agrees to act as ambassador in a crucial mission for Emperor Napoleon in exchange for permission to leave France and start a new life with the privateer, Jason Beaufort. But despite Napoleon’s protection, she is abducted and detained by a hateful enemy, connected to her mysterious husband Prince Corrado. Determined to escape the clutches of her captor, Marianne can only rely on her ingenuity.
Resolute to finish the task set her, Marianne finally boards the Sea Witch. Happiness, and a future with Jason in sight, until destiny, once more, intervenes.
Telos Publishing is proud to present the fourth book in Juliette Benzoni’s acclaimed, best-selling series of historical romance novels set during the Napoleonic period. Also previously published with the title Marianne and the Rebels. This edition is presented for the first time in English completely unabridged.
297pp approx 6×9-format paperback novel.
ISBN: 978-1-84583-216-2
First published in 1973
Published August 2026
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Juliette Benzoni was born Andrée-Marguerite-Juliette Mangin on 30 October 1920 in Paris, France. She spent her childhood in Saint-Germain-des-Prés until she was almost 15 years old, when her family went to live in Saint-Mandé. She was educated at College d’Hulst, then at the Institut Catholique, where she studied philosophy, law and literature. In 1941 she married a doctor from Dijon, Maurice Gallois, and was soon mother of two children, Anne and Jean-François. In her twenties, she spent many hours in libraries, studying the history of Burgundy in Medieval times. One day she came across the legend of the Order of the Golden Fleece, which would later inspire her to write the Catherine series.
After her husband died in 1950, she went to Morocco to visit a relative of his, and ended up staying for two years, joining the editorial staff at a radio station called Radio-International. She then met Colonel André Benzoni, who in 1953 became her second husband. After her return to Paris, France, she launched into journalism, writing for several newspapers. At the beginning of the 1960s, a literary editor who had seen her make a television appearance invited her to write a historical romance in the style of Anne Golon’s Angélique. The outcome was Catherine: One Love is Enough (original title, Catherine, Il Suffit d’un Amour), the hugely successful first entry in what was originally intended to be a five-book series.
Next came another big success with the Marianne series, set during the Napoleonic period, beginning with Marianne: A Star for Napoleon (original title, Marianne: Une Étoile Pour Napoléon). Juliette was then asked if she would write two additional Catherine books, due to their sensational popularity. She agreed, and the series’ seventh and final entry, La Dame de Montsalvy, appeared in 1979.
In 1983, the French station Antenne 2 adapted Marianne: A Star for Napoleon for television, directed by Marion Sarraut. This led on three years later to a television adaptation of all seven books in the Catherine series, again directed by Sarraut; the end result pleased Juliette far more than a substandard movie version produced in 1968.
Juliette continued to write up to her death on 7 February 2016.
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