Summary Of Revolution By Jennifer Donnelly

In the novel Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly, the protagonist of the story Andi Alpers goes to Paris with her father to finish her senior thesis. Andi is failing school and must finish her senior thesis to graduate. The place where she stays is at the house of one of her father’s close friends who is addressed as G. G is a historian who is fixated on the French Revolution and wishes to create a museum about the French Revolution, for this reason, he owns many artifacts from the era of the French revolution. While walking through the house Andi finds an old guitar case that is open but the lock is jammed. While attempting to fix the lock for hours, the key that Andi wears around her neck hits the side of the case and out of curiosity, she tries the key in the lock. The key gets stuck in the lock and Andi tries to remove the key desperately, as it belonged to her deceased brother. Eventually, the key turns, but the key turns multiple times more than it should and a hidden compartment opens in the bottom of the case. In the hidden compartment is a small portrait of a young boy named Louis-Charles and a diary.
This boy is the reason that Andi’s father is there and why he has met up with G. From G Andi learns that Louis-Charles was isolated by Robespierre because of the fact that he was heir to the throne, which posed a threat to the revolution. She is told of the horrible condition that he was kept in, about how few knew about the fact that he was imprisoned, and how he was driven to madness and died at the age of ten from starvation. The diary Andi found was written by a girl named Alexandrine, that told the story of how Alexandrine had become the companion of Louis-Charles and how he ended up