Tanith Lee
Through the writings and a painting she finds in a book at the age of fourteen, the narrator feels a strange bond to the life and thoughts of Lucien de Ceppays, a revolutionary who lived and died in the city two centuries before. In a time of desperation, she comes to Madame Two Swords, an old woman with her own bonds to Lucien, and to the book and its present owner. 
Fantasy,Novella,Fiction,Historical,Historical Fiction
Madame Two Swords