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In this deeply personal work
Beginning with the vestiges of medievalism in Montaigne and Bacon
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The Hostage Fenton In this deeply personal workBy Paul Claudel The year is 1812: the army of Napoleon Bonaparte has initiated its fatal invasion of Russia while Pope Pius VII languishes as a political prisoner of the Emperor. When George de Cofontaine et Dormant, Lord Lieutenant of the King, kidnaps the Pope, he sets into motion a series of events whose outcome could determine the fate of the Church and world alike. Bringing his papal hostage to the ancestral Cofontaine home, George draws his
