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The whispering swirled about Lidoire
But little or nothing come to her father's ears;
For none would associated risk his wrath to see
Come true experienced one of is own greatest anxieties One autumn in middle ages Provence, a nobleman's only child detects herself mysteriously pregnant. The lady, Lidoire, hasn't lain with a man and miracles if she, like the Virgin Mary, has conceived immaculately. Years before, her father betrothed her to the powerful prince of Navarre; through the marriage, he hopes to further his own ambitions. In her father's castle, Lidoire fearfully pieces her belly increase until Moreau - her father's vintner, a man who's been like a caring uncle - involves her. He offers to cover up her in a wilderness hermitage through the winter, so she might come back in the spring with the baby. The perception of his beloved daughter returned along with his grandchild on her breast, Moreau dreams, will abate the absolute to be horrendous anger of Lidoire's father. But Moreau's plans will be more than what they seem to be, and in the wilderness Lidoire makes a decision that will uncover the shocking truth of her motherhood, a choice whose repercussions will be experienced from the idyllic, sun-drenched vineyards of southern France to the bloody battlefield outside the Holy City of Jerusalem. Set in the time of the First Crusade (1096-1099), The Ballad of St. Lidoire is a tale of love and betrayal, the vicissitudes of their time, and the messy way in which saints are sometimes created.
