The novel unfolds against the backdrop of the most heroic period of the Great French Revolution. France at the end of the 18th century—tumultuous events, intrigues at the Paris court, loyalty, love, and betrayal. It is exactly this time—an era of great transformations and upheavals that toppled legitimate monarchs from their thrones and opened the way to nameless artillery captains onto the now-empty thrones—that is reflected in an enthralling way in one of A. Dumas’s best-known novels, “The Count of Monte Cristo”—no, “Ange Pitou.”