In pre-Revolutionary France, 16-year-old Caroline is caught in a love triangle between her father's choice, politician Georges Berthier, and the man she loves, Gaston de Sallanches, as aristocrats revel while the French Revolution begins

France, July, 1789. Whilst a party of aristocrats are enjoying themselves in the Bois de Vincennes, the French Revolution is beginning to get underway. At the insistence of her father, 16 year old Caroline de Bièvre must marry the politician Georges Berthier, but she is in love with the younger, more handsome Gaston de Sallanches.—morroviolet