# The Hero of the People

> A sweeping romance of the French Revolution from the great Dumas, carrying its characters through the fever of Paris as an old regime falls and a new age is born in blood.

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## About
Alexandre Dumas returns to the ferment of the French Revolution in this instalment of his great sequence of historical romances.What it's aboutThe Hero of the People belongs to Dumas's cycle dramatising the fall of the French monarchy, and it carries its cast through the tumult of Paris and Versailles as revolution gathers force. Kings and queens, courtiers and commoners, conspirators and idealists move through a narrative that mixes invented figures with the real actors of history. As ever with Dumas, private loves and loyalties are caught up in the great public storm, and personal fate is bound to the fate of a nation.ThemesThe book is animated by the collision of the old order and the new, by liberty and its price, and by the way ordinary passions are swept into vast events. Loyalty, betrayal and the making and unmaking of heroes are its recurring notes.Why it still mattersDumas remains one of the supreme storytellers of European history, turning the Revolution into vivid human drama. His romances shaped how generations imagined that upheaval and still carry readers along on sheer narrative energy.Who it's forFor lovers of Dumas and of grand historical romance, and for readers who want the French Revolution rendered as thrilling story.

## Specifications
- language: en
- format: paperback