Love and Liberty: A Thrilling Narrative of the French Revolution of 1792
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Dumas went to Varennes in 1856 to find men who had seen the king's carriage stopped, and came back with this: the Revolution told from below by René Besson, a boy of the town who grows up into it. The Bastille, the flight of Louis, the Terror and the fall of Robespierre, all at eye level and from inside the crowd rather than above it. The narrator is invented; the old men Dumas sat with at Varennes were not, and the book is angrier than his usual manner. Fifty-seven plates, among them Daumier and Chardin, carry the century's own view of its people from the fêtes galantes of Watteau's age to the hardships of war.
Dumas went to Varennes in 1856 to find men who had seen the king's carriage stopped, and came back with this: the Revolution told from below by René Besson, a boy of the town who grows up into it. The Bastille, the flight of Louis, the Terror and the fall of Robespierre, all at eye level and from...
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Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was a French novelist and dramatist born in Villers-Cotterêts, the son of a general of Haitian descent. He wrote for the Paris newspapers in serial form, often with collaborators, and earned and lost several fortunes; he spent four years in Naples running a newspaper and a museum. His works include The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, Love and Liberty, and The Wolf-Leader.
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was a French novelist and dramatist born in Villers-Cotterêts, the son of a general of Haitian descent. He wrote for the Paris newspapers in serial form, often with collaborators, and earned and lost several fortunes; he spent four years in Naples running a newspaper a...
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