Ninety-Three

'Ninety-Three' is the last novel by the French writer Victor Hugo, best remembered for his works 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' and 'Les Miserables'. Published in 1874, three years after the bloody upheaval of the Paris Commune that resulted out of popular reaction the failure of Napoleon III to win the Franco-Prussian War, the novel concerns the Revolt in the Vendée and Chouannerie – the counter-revolutionary revolts during the French Revolution. It is divided into three parts, but not chronologically; each part tells a different story, offering a different view of historical general events. The action mainly takes place in Brittany and in Paris.