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It is 1793, France, the year of the guillotine. Already Louis XVI has been sentenced to the scaffold, and terror reigns. 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.… (more)
rebeccanyc: Hugo and Mantel both create fiction: Hugo's is closer to the passions of the time and more philosphical, involving largely fictional characters; Mantel's more distanced and historical. Hugo's novel deals with the counter-revolution in the Vendée, with a detour to Paris; Mantel's with the leaders of the revolution in Paris.… (more)
In the latter part of May, 1793, one of the Paris battalions sent into Brittany by Santerre, searched the much dreaded forest of La Saudraie, in Astillé.
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Dans la terre fatale avait germé l'arbre sinistre. De cette terre, arrosée de tant de sueurs, de tant de larmes, de tant de sang, de cette terre où avaient été creusées tant de fosses, tant de tombes, tant de cavernes, tant d'embûches, de cette terre où avaient pourri toutes les espèces de morts faites par toutes les espèces de tyrannies, (.. .), de cette terre profonde, était sortie, au jour marqué, cette inconnue, cette vengeresse, [... ]
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And those two souls, united still in that tragic death, soared away together, the shadow of the one mingled with the radiance of the other.
It is 1793, France, the year of the guillotine. Already Louis XVI has been sentenced to the scaffold, and terror reigns. 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.
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