Ninety-Three

Ninety-Three is the last novel by the French writer Victor Hugo. Published in 1874, three years after the bloody upheaval of the Paris Commune that resulted out of popular reaction the failure of Napoleon III to win the Franco-Prussian War, the novel concerns the Revolt in the Vendee and Chouannerie - the counter-revolutionary revolts in 1793 during the French Revolution. It is divided into three ...