A young French émigré returns under Napoleon's shadow, caught among intrigue, loyalty, and the Emperor's camp at Boulogne.
Books mentioned in Uncle Bernac (2)
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “It was Rousseau's 'Social Contract'--excellent literature, but hardly what one would expect a trader to carry with him whilst awaiting an appointment with smugglers.”
The Poems of Ossian by James Macpherson: “This it was which he called Ossianising, because it recalled to him the wild vague dreams of the Gaelic Ossian, whose poems had always had a fascination for him.”