Salvator. A Novel in 2 Volumes. Volume 1

Salvator is the ubiquitous Proteus in a working blouse and cloak the color of night. He has studied from top to bottom all the circles of the Parisian inferno. Aristocrats and beggars, police and criminals - he knows more about them than they know about him. But who is this crafty commissioner-lawyer from Rue Fer? A good guardian angel extending a helping hand to all who have lost their way, or a stern avenging angel lying in wait for the right moment to achieve his fearsome goal? In this volume of the illustrated collected works of Alexandre Dumas, the first books of the novel "Salvator" are included, completing the longest epic of the writer - "The Parisian Mohicans," telling the story of secret and public events that became the prologue to the "three glorious days" of the July Revolution of 1830.