Starting from an old tower in Normandy, the French historian reconstructs the true story of the Combray family in the years after Georges Cadoudal’s capture. Royalist plotters, the adventurer d’Aché, the robbery of a government coach at Quesnay and the fate of Madame Acquet unfold from police records and trial papers.
Narrative history that reads like a thriller, for anyone curious about royalist resistance to Napoleon. Download the free EPUB.