WELCH, Ronald - Escape from France - (1st Edition Hardcover in Wrapper)

A scarce 1969 title - Book and wrapper very good - Was a prize from Brenthurst Primary School to Godfrey and has lable in front.       >>>   A complex tale of daring and disguise, and a vivid picture of the hotbed of spies and informers that Paris became during the revolution.   -   With news of the revolution in France, the Careys are anxious about the fate of their relatives, the aristocratic dAssailly family. Young Richard Carey, still a Cambridge student but already an outstanding swordsman, is sent secretly by his father Lord Aubigny on a mercy mission to bring them back to England. When he arrives at their château in Normandy Richard finds that the Marquis has already been arrested and he and his cousin Armand set out for Paris with a bold plan to spring him from the Abbaye prison.