A romance during the brief and tragic reign of Emperor Maximilian I in 1860s Mexico. The hero is an American colonel who commands a regiment of the French Foreign Legion which installed Maximilian. The heroine is an American woman from Boston who is a friend of the empress, but is sympathetic to the Mexican revolutionaries.
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