Henri de La Rochejaquelein was barely twenty when the peasants of the Vendée rose against the Revolution and made him their general. Guiney tells his short, brilliant life, from the generous ideals of 1789 through the war in the west to his death in 1794, with a poet’s affection and a historian’s care.
A graceful small biography of one of the most romantic figures of the Revolutionary wars. Download the free EPUB.