Marik Lebrenn, a Paris shopkeeper of old Gaulish stock, keeps relics handed down through his proletarian family across the centuries. As the revolution of February 1848 breaks out he and his household take to the barricades, while a cardinal, a count and their agents plot against the people’s cause.
The opening volume of Sue’s Mysteries of the People, translated by the socialist Daniel De Leon. Download the free EPUB.
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