The GlassBlowers Author:Daphne du Maurier The most serious work of one of our enduringly popular novelists, The Glass-blowers is Daphne Du Maurier's dramatic story of a family of master craftsmen in France from the timeof the Ancien Regime to the ascendency of Napoleon. It brings to life an aspect of the French Revolution seldom touched on in historical fiction - the Civil War which... more » originated in the Vendee and swept up to engulf the Midi.« less