When Daniel Fallon’s father died, he inherited two letters sent to his great-great-grandfather by the French romantic writer François-René de Chateaubriand. The letters aligned with a family story about his great-great-great-grandmother Mary O’Neill showing kindness to Chateaubriand when he was in London – and Fallon wanted to know more.
Love’s Legacy is Fallon’s investigation into a family mystery and his journey through French and English records in the hope of solving the question: is Chateaubriand my great-great-great-grandfather?
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