- From the Louvre to Buckingham Palace, to the gutters of Paris to the siege of La Rochelle… In a kingdom divided by religious wars and under threat of British invasion, a handful of men and women will cross swords and tie their fate to that…
- 1848,ParisunderSiege:VictorHugoistornbetweenhisfamily,hismistressesandpoliticalturmoil-nevermindfinallycompletinghisclassicnovelLesMiserables.AlthoughHugoisaconfirmedRoyalist,hesupportstheRepublicandLouisNapoléonBonaparte,whoissoontobecomepresident,convincedthathewillinitiatesocialreforms.Butwhenthenewgovernmentisforme…