“Ninety-Third Year” is Victor Hugo’s last novel, describing the final days of the Great French Revolution. May 1793. France’s monarchy has fallen apart like a quarter of a year, the First Republic has been proclaimed, civil war rages in the country, and the power is held by the Jacobin dictatorship. The work tells of the confrontation between two models of society, two visions of history, two systems of values. Marquis de Lantenac embodies the old regime, while his nephew embodies modernism and the revolutionary ideals of the republicans.