Asylum for the Queen Author:Mildred Jordan This novel of conflicting loyalties is based on an exciting, mysterious, and still unsolved episode in French- American history. — The time is that of a French Revolution, The story that of a group of passionately loyal aristocrats who plot to rescue Marie Antoinette Louis XVI, and the Dauphin their son from inprisonment in Paris , and to bring t... more »hem to a Pennsylvania colony fittingly named Asylum until they can return to France in Triunph.