Madame X: A Story of Mother-Love

J. W. McConaughy · Alexandre Bisson

Feb 2017 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

A tragic story of infidelity, murder, and a mother’s love in turn-of-the-century France.

When Jacqueline Floriot’s husband, Louis, finds her in the arms of another man, she and her lover flee the house. Two years later, Jacqueline returns, hoping to reunite with her young son, Raymond. But Louis, overcome with jealous rage, sends her out into the cold of winter without so much as a glimpse of her child. His merciless act sets off a tragic chain of events as Jacqueline sinks into a life of depravity, drugs, and prostitution.
 
Twenty years later, Raymond is a lawyer, working alongside his father. When he finds himself representing a woman accused of murder, a woman known only as Madame X, he has no way of knowing that he defends his own mother—or that she may have committed her alleged crime out of love for her son.
 
Based on Alexandre Bisson’s 1908 play of the same name, J. W. McConaughy’s novel brilliantly depicts a harrowing tale.
 
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About the author

Alexandre Bisson (1848–1912) was a French playwright, novelist, and vaudeville creator. Bisson’s plays were well known throughout France, and in 1892, he brought his works to New York City and premiered them on Broadway. His most famous play, Madame X, was revived three times and was a commercial success. It has since been made into films and was adapted into a novel by J. W. McConaughy. Bisson also found success in his stage adaptation of Florence Barclay’s novel The Rosary.  J. W. McConaughy was an author and journalist in the late nineteenth century. McConaughy wrote the novels Madame X, The Boss, and The Typhoon, as well as the nonfiction book Big Jim Jeffries: His Twelve Greatest Battles. He regularly wrote articles for major newspapers such as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Munsey’s magazine, and The Evening Mail.