In March 1819 a young theology student walked into Mannheim, called at the house of the dramatist August von Kotzebue and stabbed him to death. Dumas reconstructs Sand’s background in the patriotic student movement, his diary and motives, the murder itself and the trial and execution that made him a martyr to German nationalists.
One of Dumas’s Celebrated Crimes, a political assassination told as tragedy. Download the free EPUB.