Wonderful book from the sixties. Babette Duplay was only fourteen when the handsome young stranger gave her a chestnut leaf - "the green cockade of liberty". Two days later, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille. Anxious months passed by, with hunger, poverty, and discontent stalking the streets of Paris. It was a difficult time for growing up, with loved ones in danger and terror in the air. When the whispers of the pople swelled into a mighty shout for bread and liberty, all the Duplays found themselves enmeshed in the upheaval. With infinite skill, Joanne Williamson weaves a tender love story against the stirring background of the French Revolution.