Ange Pitou, a gangly orphan from the countryside around Villers-Cotterêts, is turned out of his aunt’s house and finds himself drawn to Paris as the Revolution breaks. With the farmer Billet and Doctor Gilbert he is caught up in the fall of the Bastille and the frenzy that follows, as the old order of France begins to crumble.
Dumas’s lively novel of 1789, also known as Ange Pitou, part of his Marie Antoinette romances. Download the free EPUB.