Dumas presents this as the memoir of a young provincial who witnessed the great events of the Revolution. The narrator tells of his parentage and youth, the first stirrings of his political faith, his break with the aristocracy, the fall of the Bastille and the capture of the royal family at Varennes, mixing his own love story with the history around him.
A lesser-known Dumas romance of the Revolution, for readers who enjoyed The Queen’s Necklace. Download the free EPUB.