6/8/2023 0 Comments The Bastard by John JakesLacking the funds to return to France, Marie and Philippe flee to London, where Phillippe learns the printing trade and makes plans to emigrate to America. When they arrive, the Duke's family refuse to recognize Philippe as the son of the Duke. Seventeen-year-old Philippe Charboneau, illegitimate son of James Amberly, the 6th Duke of Kent, travels with his mother Marie to Kent, England and stake their claim to his inheritance. The story begins in November 1770 in Auvergne, France, near Chavaniac. The novel was adapted into a four-hour television film in 1978, also called The Bastard. The novel mixes fictional characters with historical events or people, to tell the story of the United States of America in the time period leading up to the American Revolution. It is book one in a series known as The Kent Family Chronicles or the American Bicentennial Series. The Bastard is an historical novel written by John Jakes and originally published in 1974.
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