Ninety-Three

The Vendée in the Year of the Terror

Victor Hugo, Aline Delano

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486475900
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

The Vendee in 1793 - a royalist rebel, his great-nephew who commands the republican column sent against him, and the former priest who tutored the young man and now watches him for the Republic, all three of them right by their own lights. Hugo's last novel, written at seventy-one, and his most balanced book about revolution. Its 114 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Ninety-Three
• Book I. The Forest of La Saudraie
• I. England and France United
• II. Night with the Ship and the Passenger
• III. Patrician and Plebeian United
• IV. Tormentum Belli
• V. Vis Et Vir
• VI. The Two Ends of the Scale
• VII. He Who Sets Sail Invests in a Lottery
• VIII. 9 : 380
• IX. Some One Escapes
• X. Does He Escape?
• I. Speech Is Word
• II. A Peasant’s Memory Is Worth as Much as the Captain’s Science
• I. On the Top of the Dune
• II. Aures Habet, Et Non Audiet
• III. The Usefulness of Big Letters. IV. The Caimand
• V. When He Awoke It Was Daylight
• VI. The Vicissitudes of Civil War
• VII. No Mercy! No Quarter!
• I. The Streets of Paris at That Time
• II. Cimourdain
• III. A Corner Not Dipped Into the Styx
• I. Minos, aeAcus, and Rhadamanthus
• II. Magna Testantur Voce Per Umbras
• III. A Quivering of the Inmost Fibres
• I. The Convention. I.
• II.
• III.
• IV.
• V.
• VI.
• VII.
• VIII.
• IX.
• X.
• XI.
• XII.
• II. Marat in the Green-Room
• I. The Forests
• II. Men
• III. Connivance of Men and Forests
• IV. Their Life Under Ground
• V. Their Life in Warfare
• VI. The Soul of the Earth Passes Into Man
• VII. The Vendée Has Ruined Brittany
• I. Plus Quam Civilia Bella
• II. Dol
• III. Small Armies and Great Battles
• IV. A Second Time
• V. A Drop of Cold Water
• VI. A Healed Breast, but a Bleeding Heart
• VII. The Two Poles of Truth
• VIII. Dolorosa
• IX. A Provincial Bastile. I. La Tourgue
• II. The Breach
• III. The Oubliette
• IV. The Bridge-Castle
• V. The Iron Door
• VI. The Library
• VII. The Granary
• X. The Hostages
• XI. Terrible as the Antique
• XII. The Rescue Planned
• XIII. What the Marquis Is Doing
• XIV. What the Imânus Is Doing
• I. The Massacre of Saint Bartholomew
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• II.
• III.
• IV.
• V.
• VI.
• VII.
• I. Death Passes
• II. Death Speaks
• III. Mutterings Among the Peasants
• IV. A Mistake
• V. Vox in Deserto
• VI. The Situation
• VII. Preliminaries
• VIII. The Speech and the Roar
• IX. Titans Against Giants
• X. Radoub
• XI. The Desperate
• XII. The Deliverer
• XIII. The Executioner
• XIV. The Imânus Also Escapes
• XV. Never Put a Watch and Key in the Same Pocket
• I. Found, but Lost
• II. From the Door of Stone to That of Iron
• III. Where the Sleeping Children Wake
• I. Lantenac Taken
• II. Gauvain Meditating
• III. The Commander’s Hood
• I. The Ancestor
• II. The Court-Martial
• III. The Votes. IV. After Cimourdain the Judge, Cimourdain the Master
• V. The Dungeon
• VI. Still the Sun Rises
• About the Author