Booth Tarkington 
Beauty and the Jacobin (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 
An Interlude of the French Revolution

This one act play follows Louis Valny-Cherault the Marquis, his sister Anne de Laseyne, and Eloise D’Anville. They are on a dangerous journey to escape France during the revolution. But faking documents and such becomes the least of their worries as Valsin, the Commissioner of the National Committee of Public Safety tries to trap them

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Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist best known for his depictions of life in small Midwestern cities. A lover of the theater, he dramatized several of his own books. Today, he is most noted as the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Magnificent Ambersons and for the novel Alice Adams, about the frustrated ambitions of a lower middle class young woman.