The Fall of the Blade
                                      
                  
                                      Author: Sue Reid
                  
                                      Publisher: Scolastic Children's Books
                  
                  
                  
                                      
                  
                                    
                                    
                  
                  It's 1972, Isabelle, daughter of an aristocrat, lives in a chateau just outside Paris. But France is in the grip of the Revolution, and as terror takes hold of the city, Isabelle's family decide that they must flee to the countryside. But will they be safe there? Will they escape the guillotine's falling blade...?