The Last Vendée

Complete and unabridged, with 49 full-page plates by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Théodore Géricault and Édouard Manet. The Vendée in 1832: the Duchesse de Berry lands to raise the west against Louis-Philippe, and a family is divided between the two sides. Dumas had helped the general who arrested the duchess write his memoir of the rising, and came back to the material a quarter of a century late...