The Ninety-Third Year

The most historically accurate and dramatic novel by Hugo, as if bringing the reader to life from the vibrant, bustling revolutionary Paris to the rebellious Breton Vendée, where royalist partisan Chouans turned every forest, dell, and swamp into a deadly trap for French soldiers.
It is in Vendée that the exciting story unfolds of the Marquis de Lantenac, who took command of the Chouans, his grandson and the republican officer, the young idealist Gauvain, and the mentor and practically father of the orphaned youth – the fanatical commissioner Simourden...