title: Beware Madame la Guillotine: Travel to the French Revolution  with Murderess Charlotte Corday
author:  Sarah Towle 
description: Late at night, Sarah Towle wonders if she had been in Charlottes shoes, would she have used the knife? She doesnt let this keep her up til dawn, however, as she has other stories to tell and more storyapps and interactive books to create. Her first title, Beware Madame la Guillotine, A Revolutionary Tour of Paris, received accolades as a bilingual storyapp and was the inspiration for the subsequent suite of interactive books by Time Traveler Tales. More Paris stories by Sarah are on their way. Sarah is represented by Erzsi Deak of Hen&ink Literary Studio. She is available for author visits in person or by Skype, writers workshops, speaking engagements, and presentations.
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  # Balloons
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Elizabeth Bibesco
  
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  I. HAVEN
  
  
  II. TWO PARIS EPISODES
  
  
  III. COURTSHIP
  
  
  IV. “DO YOU REMEMBER——?”
  
  
  V. THE MARTYR
  
  
  VI. A MOTOR
  
  
  VII. THE MASTERPIECE
  
  
  VIII. TEA TIME
  
  
  IX. THE END
  
  
  X. MISUNDERSTOOD
  
  
  XI. COUNTERPOINT
  
  
  XII. VILLEGIATURA
  
  
  XIII. AULD LANG SYNE
  
  
  XIV. TWO TAXI DRIVES
  
  
  XV. A TOUCH OF SPRING
  
  
  XVI. FIDO AND PONTO
  
  
  
  
  
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  Produced by Kathryn Lybarger and the Online Distributed Proofreading
  
  
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  BALLOONS
  
  
  BY
  
  
  ELIZABETH BIBESCO
  
  
  _Author of “I Have Only Myself to Blame,” etc._
  
  
  NEW YORK
  
  
  GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
  
  
  _1922_
  
  
  PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
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  I HAVEN 9
  
  
  _To Clarence Day, Jr._
  
  
  II TWO PARIS EPISODES 21
  
  
  _To Anthony Asquith_
  
  
  I: THE STORY OF A COAT
  
  
  II: BALLOONS
  
  
  III COURTSHIP 27
  
  
  IV “DO YOU REMEMBER...?” 29
  
  
  _To Leslie Hartley_
  
  
  V THE MARTYR 37
  
  
  _To H.G.