Ninety-three

It is 1793. France. The year of the guillotine. Already Louis XVI has been sentenced to the scaffold and terror reigns. The architects of the Revolution-Marat, Danton, and Robespierre-have set up the Convention, an embryonic parliament, designed to stem social chaos. It is 1793, and in Vendee a peasant woman is striving desperately to protect her three children while Republican troops engage in bloody battle with counter-revolutionaries. Ideals topple in the face of political necessity, alliances founder, intrigue is a way of life.
And in Ninety-Three, Victor Hugo's inspired last novel, that tumultuous year's events are woven into an epic masterpiece which captures brilliantly the moment that shaped the destiny not only of France but of all European monarchy.
This book was originally published in French, in 1874.