Excerpt from Man of My Time by Dalia Sofer, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

He handed us the flags. They were of the old variety with a golden lion and sun in the middle, and carried such messages as "Down with the devil" and "One day the prince shall return," and other such nonsense. Of all the splintered groups of our nation, the royalists were the most pathetic.

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