Le chevalier de Maison-Rouge

by Alexandre Dumas

"Le chevalier de Maison-Rouge" by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet is a historical novel published in 1846. Set during the French Revolution in 1793, the story follows revolutionary Maurice Lindey who falls in love with Geneviève, a royalist married to Dixmer. Their home shelters the Chevalier de Maison-Rouge, a fugitive conspiring to free Queen Marie-Antoinette from prison. As political loyalties clash with forbidden love, the characters face impossible choices between passion, duty, and survival in revolutionary France's dangerous world.