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This 4th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins several years after the close of "The Queen’s Necklace.” It describes the events leading up to and including the storming of the Bastile. Past plots of Count Balsamo (aka, Cogliostro) to destroy the French monarchy are resurrected by the mysterious Dr. Gilbert – a student of Balsamo’s occult arts and the Enlightenment philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Considered by many critics to be a highlight of the Marie Antoinette Romances, Dumas tells this quintessential story of the French Revolution through the lens of the people. As Dumas writes, “The Bastile was the seal of feudalism on the brow of Paris … the monument which had for five centuries weighed like an incubus on the breast of France—a rock of Sisyphus. Less confident than the Titan in her power, France had never thought to throw it off.” Here, history shows us the Titanic power that a people can wield! (jvanstan)
- Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45424
- Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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BC Admin - Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): (Alexandre Dumas) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas
- Link to title on Wikipedia (if available):
- Number of sections (files) this project will have: 26
- Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: No
- Original publication date (if known): 1891
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Genres for the project: Action & Adventure Fiction; Fictional Biographies & Memoirs; General Fiction/Published 1800 -1900; Crime & Mystery Fiction; Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers; Historical Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: magic, french revolution, supernatural, Marie Antoinette, hypnotism, reign of terror, sorcery, balsamo, bourbon, cogliostro
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No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):
- "Chapter [number] of the Marie Antoinette Romances, Volume 4: Taking the Bastile. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
- If you wish, say:
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"Taking the Bastile by Alexandre Dumas. Translated by Henry L. Williams [Chapter]"
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- "Chapter [number] of Taking the Bastile by Alexandre Dumas. Translated by Henry L. Williams. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
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"[Chapter title]"
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"End of the Marie Antoinette Romances, Volume 4: Taking the Bastile by Alexandre Dumas. Translated by Henry L. Williams."
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
[*]Example filename marieantoinette4_##_dumas_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. marieantoinette4_01_dumas_128kb.mp3)
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Artist: Alexandre Dumas
Title: ## - [Section title]
Album: Antoinette Romances, Vol 4: Taking the Bastile [Dumas] - lt
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Patty Marie has graciously offered to DPL this project