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Ange Pitou - Book 2: A New Translation
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 8 2026
Pages: 358
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
France, 1789. A peasant boy stumbles into revolution-and becomes witness to history's most explosive transformation.
Ange Pitou is nobody-an orphan, a dreamer, a farm boy from the village of Haramont with no prospects and less sense. When hunger and hope drive him to Versailles seeking his fortune, he finds instead a kingdom on the verge of collapse. The people are starving. The nobility is oblivious. And the king, well-meaning but weak, cannot hold back the storm that's coming.
Within weeks, Pitou finds himself at the center of events that will reshape the world: the storming of the Bastille, the march of women on Versailles, the night the royal family was dragged back to Paris as prisoners of the Revolution. He becomes messenger, bodyguard, and inadvertent hero-protecting the beautiful Countess de Charny while navigating the chaos of a society tearing itself apart.
But revolution is not romance. As the moderate hopes of 1789 curdle into the Terror's violence, as friends become enemies and yesterday's heroes face tomorrow's guillotine, Pitou must choose between his devotion to the Countess and his loyalty to the people's cause. In a world where every choice carries fatal consequences, innocence is the first casualty.
Alexandre Dumas brings his legendary gift for adventure to the French Revolution's opening acts, creating a sweeping epic that balances intimate human drama with history's grand sweep. Through Pitou's eyes-part naïve peasant, part shrewd observer-we experience the Revolution not as distant history but as lived chaos: exhilarating, terrifying, impossible to control once unleashed.
From the massacre at the Bastille to the October Days that ended royal authority forever, from the passionate debates of the National Assembly to the street violence that made words into action, Dumas renders the Revolution's first explosive years with the narrative energy and historical vividness that made him one of literature's greatest storytellers.
From the author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo-a masterful saga of revolution, love, and the price of freedom.
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