Publication

1947 - Julian Messner, Inc., New York, USA, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

108,750 words, Guess

Page Count

435 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • AmazonB004M9NBEM
  • LibraryThing291740
  • Goodreads843748

Classifications

  • DDC813.52
  • LCCPS3521.E86 C36 1947b

Description

*Came a Cavalier* is the story of Constance Galt, a beautiful girl who has great qualities of loyalty and loving-kindness, but whose outlook has been limited by a legacy of poverty and intolerance and whose faith in mankind has been shattered by an unhappy love affair. Service in France, as a "searcher" for the American Red Cross, at the end of World War I, broadens her horizons immeasurably, and a young and extremely engaging doctor, Duncan Craig, brings a new element of romance into her life. But it is with the *coming of a cavalier*—Tristan de Fremond, a French cavalry officer of irresistible attractions, belonging to the famous Cadre Noir at Saumur—that her existence is completely transformed.

Description

When Connie is humiliated by her college boyfriend, she drops out of Tufts and becomes a nurse in France during WWI. There, due to scarcity, she is suddenly more attractive to men and gains much needed confidence but ultimately experiences both joy and real heartbreak.--Goodreads CAME A CAVALIER--a poignant and compelling saga of love, marriage and war. Once again Frances Parkinson Keyes weaves her storytelling magic into the kind of full, rich novel which has enchanted readers to world over and established her as one of the best loved, best selling novelists of our time. This richly romantic novel, spun out against the colorful backdrop of the Normandy countryside, unfolds the story of a beautiful young American who becomes the wife of a wealthy and titled French cavalry officer. Her dramatic struggle to hold her family together through the dangers of war and the terrors of Nazi occupation is an unforgettable portrait of a woman's courage...and a woman's love.

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Genres

  • Fiction.

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  • Came a CavalierHardcoverJulian Messner, Inc.1947-01-01
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