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For readers who love history told through eyewitness adventure, for fans of Dumas's lively storytelling, and for anyone curious about the people behind the Revolution, from kings and queens to carpenters and postmasters.
Che cos’è questo libro
What would you do if a stranger asked someone to climb a burning roof? Réné Besson takes the risk, and that choice shapes his life. Love and Liberty is Alexandre Dumas's novel of the French Revolution, told as the memoir of an old colonel from Varennes. You follow a carpenter and gamekeeper's nephew from the Forest of Argonne to the Paris clubs, the flight of the King, and the first bloodshed of a new age. Start with the forest where he grows up.
In questo riassunto
- 1An orphan of the forest meets a new ideaFree
- 2Courage and study shape a young citizen
- 3The Bastille falls and France arms itself
- 4Sophie Gerbaut offers friendship and a secret
- 5A journey to Paris and the Federation festival
- 6The night the King is stopped at Varennes
- 7A long ride back to Paris
- 8A petition divides the patriots
- 9What the story is really about, and how it is told
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An orphan of the forest meets a new idea
Réné Besson is born in 1775 in the village of Islettes. He loses both parents young and grows up with his uncle Descharmes, a forest keeper in the Forest of Argonne. The forest belongs to the King and is kept for the hunting of court nobles.
As a boy Réné guides the young Duke d'Enghien through the trees and is rewarded with a fine gun. Then a friend of the family, the dragoon Jean Baptiste Drouet, rides up and tells him to keep his carpenter's plane as well. Drouet sends him a book by Rousseau called Emile, which praises the honest independence of the craftsman.
The lesson sinks in. Réné decides he will serve no master, not even a prince. For the listener, this is the seed of the whole story: a boy with two tools, a gun from a duke and a plane from his father, must choose which one defines him.
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Questions about Amore e libertà
What is Love and Liberty about?
It follows Réné Besson, a young carpenter from the Forest of Argonne, into the French Revolution. His personal adventures open into a wider history of France, from the hopes of brotherhood to the violence of the Terror.
Who is Réné Besson in Love and Liberty?
Réné is the narrator, a carpenter and gamekeeper's nephew who becomes a National Guard soldier. The story is presented as his memoir, which Dumas says he received from the old colonel.
What is the flight to Varennes?
In June 1791 King Louis XVI and his family tried to escape from Paris in disguise. The postmaster Jean Baptiste Drouet recognized him, and the family was stopped in the town of Varennes.
Is Love and Liberty a true story?
It is a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas. Many people and events are real, such as Robespierre, Drouet, and the Champ de Mars, while Réné's story is presented as the memoir of an old colonel.
Is Love and Liberty easy to follow?
Yes, the narrator speaks plainly, moving between vivid scenes such as a duel, a festival, or a night ride and broader accounts of the Revolution. Portraits of famous figures help new readers find their way.