This leads her husband to accuse her of trying to play matchmaker and remark, "I perceive that life in Brussels is going to be even more interesting than I had expected."Īmongst the fashionable ton partying in the metropolis, Lady Barbara Childe (the granddaughter of Dominic, Duke of Avon) is making her mark. Charles Audley (who is a member of Wellington's staff and is still in Vienna) will fall in love with her new friend, Miss Lucy Devenish. After he goes, Judith tells her husband about her hopes that Worth's brother, Colonel the Hon. In the end he decides that if his brother-in-law deems it safe to stay, then it must be safe enough. When the other guests leave, Judith (Lady Worth)'s brother, Sir Peregrine Taverner (Perry), expresses his fears about remaining in Brussels, especially since his wife, Harriet is expecting their third child. Everyone is anxious for the Duke of Wellington to arrive from Vienna. The novel opens in the home of Lord and Lady Worth, where several of their friends are discussing the precarious situation in Belgium. In the early summer of 1815, while the Battle of Waterloo is just a threat, Brussels is the most exciting city in Europe and many of the British aristocracy have rented homes there. An Infamous Army completes the sequence begun with These Old Shades (although there is an inconsistency in the time line, with These Old Shades set in 1755, Devil's Cub set 25 years later, with only 35 years until the setting of An Infamous Army, during which time there are supposed to be two grown generations) and is also a sequel to Regency Buck. So in addition to being a Regency romance, it is one of the most historically accurate and vividly narrated descriptions of the Battle of Waterloo. In this novel Heyer combines her penchant for meticulously researched historical novels with her more popular period romances. These Old Shades, Devil's Cub, Regency BuckĪn Infamous Army is a novel by Georgette Heyer.
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