Holy Week Author:Louis Aragon It is Holy Week, 1815. Napoleon has landed from exile on Elba and is marching on Paris, his army increasing every hour. Louis XVIII has promised his people he will never abandon them. But on the gray and rainy afternoon of Palm Sunday, a monstrous coach sweeps out of the courtyard of the Tuileries and flees north. A train of jostling coaches... more » and carriages, wives and mistresses, nobles and musketeers trails the Royal coach. The grand climax of blood, terror, violence and passion is about to begin.« less