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THE LITTLE BALLOONIST
By: Linda Donn
A soaring love story set in Napoleonic France
Plume
December 2006
On Sale: November 28, 2006
Featuring: Sophie Blanchard
224 pages
ISBN: 0452287731
EAN: 9780452287730
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This irresistible literary debut novel was inspired by the life of Sophie Blanchard, one of the first women to fly. In Paris, a young widow inherits her late husbandβs considerable debts, as well as his celebrated hydrogen balloon. Drawn by the allure of flight despite its dangers, Sophie takes to the skies with a boldness that wins her fame throughout the country. Along with her new celebrity, Sophie wins the love of two very different men: one, her faithful childhood friend Andre Giroux, and the other a brash young Napoleon Bonaparte, soon to be emperor of France.
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