Reinvention Of Love The

When Charles Sainte-Beuve an ambitious French journalist meets Victor Hugo a young writer on the verge of fame he finds himself in a world of great passions a world where words can become swords. But to his surprise he is more attracted to Victor’s long-suffering wife Adèle. When the two lovers create a scandale in Paris Victor exacts his price for betrayal.Set during the tumultuous reign of Napoleon III and sweeping from France to the Channel Islands to Halifax and back The Reinvention of Love draws a rich portrait of the old city where duels are fought in its parks and cholera-ridden bodies float in the Seine. Along its narrow crime-filled streets noble families and artists―Frédéric Chopin Georges Sand Alexandre Dumas―mix with ordinary citizens who remain restless with ideas of revolution. Towering over all is the enormous talent of Victor Hugo who is rapidly becoming the voice of France to the world.