Gift book "Ange Pitou" by A. Dumas

"Ange Pitou" is the third part of Dumas's fascinating tetralogy, which also includes the novels "Notes of a Doctor (Joseph Balsamo)", "The Queen's Necklace" and "Comtesse de Charny".
From the very first pages, the reader is captured by an ironic and entertaining story of love and adventures of a young provincial student involved in the maelstrom of the turbulent life of revolutionary Paris and subsequently tried to become a prominent political figure in his native wilderness. The young hero sincerely thinks of himself as a great revolutionary, whose duty is to bring the light of a "new life" to the provincials. However, life often turns out to be very different from the high ideals of the Convention…