The Chaplet of Pearls

The Chaplet of Pearls
or, The White and Black Ribaumont

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The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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1868

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The Chaplet of Pearls
or, The White and Black Ribaumont

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An historical novel set in sixteenth-century France -- a time when the persecution of the Huguenots was at its height. The story begins with a 'baby-marriage' to secure an alliance between families.

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ri II., either from opposition to his father, instinct for honesty, or both, had become a warm friend to the gay and brilliant young Baron de Ribaumont, head of the white or elder branch of the family.

The family contention seemed likely to wear out of its own accord, for the Count de Ribaumont was an elderly and childless man, and his brother, the Chevalier de Ribaumont, was, according to the usual lot of French juniors, a bachelor, so that it was expected that the whole inheritance would centre upon the elder family. However, to the general surprise, the Chevalier late in life married, and became the father of a son and daughter; but soon after calculations were still more thrown out by the birth of a little daughter in the old age of the Count.

Almost from the hour in which her sex was announced, the King had promised the Baron de Ribaumont that she should be the wife of his young son, and that all the possessions of the house should be settled upon the little couple, engaging to provide for

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