The whole book I had Les Mis in mind. But this stands on it own beauty.

Marie-Caroline and Gilles are on very different sides of the French unrest. He's a rèvolutionnaire Jacobin and she's a royaliste. Yet they find themselves in an interesting friendship that slowly deepens over time.

I love that they both knew their minds and kept to their principles (I did like that Gilles wanted no part in the harming of people or properties when his compatriots did).

I could clearly see the happenings of this book in my mind. The vivid detail of the country and it's people at this time. I liked the letters throughout that Caroline writes to see more into her mind and the reason she takes up the cause that she does.