CONTENTS
TH. BENTZON
JACQUELINE
BOOK 1.
CHAPTER I. A PARISIENNE’S “AT HOME”
CHAPTER II. A CLEVER STEPMOTHER
CHAPTER III. THE FRIEND OF THE FAY
CHAPTER IV. A DANGEROUS MODEL
CHAPTER V. SURPRISES
CHAPTER VI. A CONVENT FLOWER
BOOK 2.
CHAPTER VII. THE BLUE BAND
CHAPTER VIII. A PUZZLING CORRESPONDENCE
CHAPTER IX. BEAUTY AT THE FAIR
CHAPTER X. GISELLE’S CONSOLATION
CHAPTER XI. FRED ASKS A QUESTION
CHAPTER XII. A COMEDY AND A TRAGEDY
CHAPTER XIII. THE STORM BREAKS
BOOK 3.
CHAPTER XIV. BITTER DISILLUSION
CHAPTER XV. TREACHEROUS KINDNESS
CHAPTER XVI. THE SAILOR’S RETURN
CHAPTER XVII. TWIN DEVILS
CHAPTER XVIII. "AN AFFAIR OF HONOR”
CHAPTER XIX. GENTLE CONSPIRATORS
CHAPTER XX. A CHIVALROUS SOUL
It is natural that the attention and affection of Americans should be attracted to a woman who has devoted herself assiduously to understanding and to making known the aspirations of our country, especially in introducing the labors and achievements of our women to their sisters in France, of whom we also have much to learn; for simple, homely virtues and the charm of womanliness may still be studied with advantage on the cherished soil of France.
Marie-Therese Blanc, nee Solms—for this is the name of the author who writes under the nom de plume of Madame Bentzon—is considered the greatest of living French female novelists. She was born in an old French chateau at Seine-Porte (Seine et Oise), September 21, 1840. This chateau was owned by Madame Bentzon’s grandmother, the Marquise de Vitry, who was a woman of great force and energy of character, “a ministering angel” to her country neighborhood. Her grandmother’s first marriage was to a Dane, Major-General Adrien-Benjamin de Bentzon, a Governor of the Danish Antilles. By this marriage there was one daughter, the mother of Therese, who in turn married the Comte de Sol