In August 1815, as the Bourbons return, the Duc de Sairmeuse comes home to reclaim the lands that his former steward Lacheneur bought during the Revolution. Lacheneur gives them up, but pride, a beautiful daughter, Marie-Anne, and the young Maurice d’Escorval set the village on a course toward conspiracy, arrests and an escape from prison.
The dramatic backstory to Gaboriau’s Monsieur Lecoq, a vivid picture of provincial France after Waterloo. Download the free EPUB.