The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 1: Balsamo, The Magician

LibriVox recording of The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 1: Balsamo, The Magician by Alexandre Dumas. (Translated by Henry L. Williams.) Read in English by John Van Stan This is the first volume of Dumas' Marie Antoinette Romances (also called "The Memoirs of a Physician"). This historical fiction chronicles the strange events surrounding the fall of the French monarchy (starting ~1770) and rise of revolutionaries so terrifying that the period is still called "The Reign of Terrors" (1793-1794). In this volume, a renowned magician, Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (Balsamo), employs various occul