Zibeline

<p>Set against the backdrop of post-war France <em>Zibeline</em> blends romance mystery and social satire as a bold heiress defies the rigid structures of aristocratic Paris. With her beauty and fortune stirring both admiration and suspicion Zibeline becomes the object of fascination and derision-until her true motives emerge. What follows is a sweeping tale of honor deception and emotional awakening between a woman who conceals her past and a soldier shaped by it.</p><p>Alexandre-Philippe-Regnier de Massa (1831-1911) was a French soldier composer dramatist and novelist. Zibeline crowned by the Academie Francaise is about a brilliant and unconventional American girl as seen through the eyes of a Frenchman.</p>