Revolution (44 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you to my editor, Krista Marino, and to Beverly Horowitz, Noreen Herits, Joan DeMayo, Chip Gibson, and all at Random House for believing in me and my story. I feel very fortunate to have had the support and encouragement of my large, boisterous, and wonderful RH family.

Thank you to Gabriel Byrne and Barry McGovern for kindly answering my questions on the actor’s art, and to Natalie Merchant and Anna Wayland for showing me the minor keys, the madness, and the music. Thank you to Thomas Hagen, whose beautiful paintings were the inspiration for Marianne’s still lifes.

Thank you to historian Christian Baulez, Dr. Hal Buch, novelist Valerie Martin, singer Sonia M’barek, and Lionel Morissée, baker at Poilâne, for their expertise, advice, and in Monsieur Morissée’s case, for bread so good it makes me cry.

Thank you to the young musicians at the Bard College Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division, and to their teachers, for the love and dedication you give to your music, and for the inspiration you’ve given me.

Thank you to Steve Malk for being my agent and my friend, and for telling me about the Decemberists.

Thank you to my parents, Wilfriede and Matt Donnelly, for giving me a love of books and history, and for not letting me throw the first draft of this book into the pond.

And thank you most of all to my Douglas and my Daisy, for your love, for always being there, and for giving me the key.

PERMISSIONS

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.: Lyrics from “I Wanna Be Sedated,” words and music by Jeffrey Hyman, John Cummings, and Douglas Colvin, copyright © 1978 by WB Music Corp. and Taco Tunes, Inc. All rights administered by WB Music Corp. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.

Hal Leonard Corporation: Lyrics from “Asleep,” words and music by Johnny Marr and Steven Morrissey, copyright © 1986 by Marr Songs Ltd. and Bona Relations Ltd. All rights for Marr Songs Ltd. in the U.S. and Canada controlled and administered by Universal-Polygram International Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved; Lyrics from “Tupelo (Tupelo Blues),” words and music by John Lee Hooker, copyright © 1991 by Orpheum Music. International copyright secured. All rights reserved; Lyrics from “
Viva La Vida,
” words and music by Guy Berryman, Jon Buckland, Will Champion and Chris Martin, copyright © 2008 by Universal Music Publishing MGB Ltd. All rights in the United States and Canada administered by Universal Music-MGB Songs. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard Corporation. Moebetoblame Music: Lyrics from “My Friends,” by Flea, Anthony Kiedis, David Michael Navarro, and Chad Gaylord Smith, copyright © 1995 by Moebetoblame Music. Reprinted by permission of Moebetoblame Music.

A NOTE ON SOURCES

Revolution
is a historical novel. It features both real and fictional people, and is set both in present-day Brooklyn—a world I lived in—and eighteenth-century France—one I did not.

Re-creating the lost Paris of Alex’s diary required a great deal of research. A full bibliography follows, but I would first like to acknowledge my debt to several works in particular.

For understanding the causes, major players, and main events of the French Revolution, I relied most heavily on Thomas Carlyle’s
The French Revolution: A History
and Simon Schama’s
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
.

Deborah Cadbury’s
The Lost King of France: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
provided an invaluable account of Louis XVII’s life and imprisonment, and of the process of DNA testing used to identify his heart. The quote from Dr. Pierre Joseph Desault that appears on page 188 of
Revolution
was taken from page 160 of Cadbury’s book. Philippe Delorme, author of several books on Louis XVII, is the real-life historian who organized the DNA tests on Louis-Charles’ heart. His website,
louis17.chez.com
, also provided information on the testing process.

When Andi arrives at G’s house, she reads letters from prisoners condemned to death during the Terror. The excerpts I used are from actual letters and were taken from Olivier Blanc’s
Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of the French Revolution 1793–1794
.

The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri, one of my favorite poems, was a major inspiration for
Revolution
. The epigraph and the lines used at the beginning of each section of the book are taken from the Longfellow translation.

To help Andi write her thesis, I read
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by Alex Ross and online articles including: “My Radiohead Adventure” by Paul Lansky, at silvertone.princeton.edu/~paul/radiohead.ml.html, “Tristan chord” on
wikipedia.org
, “Move Over Messiaen” at
gatheringevidence.com
, “What Is It About Wagner?” by Stephen Pettitt at entertainment.timesonline.co.uk, “The Devil’s Music” by Finlo Rohrer at news.bbc.co.uk, and “Greatest. Music. Ever,” an article written by Bernard Chazelle and posted on
tinyrevolution.com
.

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O
NLINE
S
OURCES

earlyromanticguitar.com
and guitarandluteissues.com/fryk.htm, for information on instruments and composers
wikipedia.org
, for information on people and events of the Revolution, for the French Republican Calendar, and for musical terms and theory

utopia.knoware.nl/users/ptr/pfloyd/interview/wywhe.html
, for an interview with Roger Waters

icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/nw.shtml
, for Allan W. Pollack’s “Notes on Norwegian Wood,” an analysis of the Beatles song