The Boy from Brittany

"Savery's last book for Pickering & Inglis ... The Boy from Brittany is one of several books she wrote about French Protestants and by its fourth chapter, Paul, the boy from Brittany, is in Cornwall becoming acquainted with most of the Kinglake family described in Savery's book-length serial The Silver Whistle. Playing on the credulity of French émigrés fleeing the revolution, Marc-Antoine, Paul's scapegrace guardian, is grooming him for the role of le Dauphin, son of Louis XVI, the lately executed king. Paul, who knows he is an orphan, but whose memory has been unreliable following a serious accident, believes what he is told. Of the Kinglakes, only credulous Emilie Treloar believes the claims. The rest of the family, especially Emilie's small son Richard, are searching for evidence to expose Paul as a fraud. When Paul recovers his memory and remembers who he is, he must decide what to do. Christian readers of the Pickering series will not be surprised by his decision."