Ninety -third year. Hugo V.

The most historically reliable and dramatic novel by Hugo, as if in reality, carrying the reader either to the violent, boiling revolutionary Paris, then to the rebellious Breton Vandea, where the royalist partisans-shuans were dominated by every forest, log and swamp into a deadly trap for French soldiers.

It is in Vandei that the exciting story of the command of the Shuani Marquis de Lantenak, his grandson and officer officer, young idealist Goven and the mentor and practically the father of the orphaned young man-the Particular Commissioner Simarden...