This horror novel is a real gorefest: everybody gets decapitated.

Since the Middle Ages, France had developed into a ‘society of orders’, that is, an environment in which a complex set of institutions and corporative bodies enjoyed distinct legal status.

‘The cloister or a betrothed husband?’ I echoed—‘Is that the alternative destined for Miss Vernon?’

[…] I will place you where you shall hear us confer of this and by an auricular assurance have your satisfaction,[…]