When the Bastille falls and Louise leads a women’s march to Versailles, the monarchy is forced to bend, but not without a fight. Emboldened to fight the injustices of King Louis XVI, Sophie aims to prove that an educated populace can govern itself-but one of her students, fruit-seller Louise Audu, is hungrier for bread and vengeance than learning.

But as the tide of revolution rises, women from gilded salons to the streets of Paris decide otherwise-upending a world order that has long oppressed them.īlue-blooded Sophie de Grouchy believes in democracy, education, and equal rights for women, and marries the only man in Paris who agrees. In late eighteenth-century France, women do not have a place in politics. Ribbons of Scarlet is a timely story of the power of women to start a revolution-and change the world. Six bestselling and award-winning authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers-six unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative events in history: the French Revolution.

Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Published by William Morrow Paperbacks on October 1, 2019 Genres: historical fiction, women's history Source: supplied by publisher via Edelweissįormats available: hardcover, paperback, large print, ebook, audiobook Knight, Sophie Perinot, Heather Webb, Allison Pataki Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution's Women by Kate Quinn, Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie, E.

Ribbons of Scarlet by Kate Quinn