So who really is the true murderer of Louis XVII, a prisoner from the Temple, the son of Marie Antoinette, the “hated Austrian” who ended her life on the scaffold? This question is asked by the main character of the novel, writer Henri Nordan, soon after he is taken for creating a film script dedicated to the fate of this child, who became another bloody victim of the French Revolution. His main suspect becomes Jacques-René Hébert, the beloved author of sans-culottes, editor of the most scandalous newspaper of the era of universal freedom and universal guillotine. Will Nordan be able to find out the truth? The history of the French Revolution after reading this book will never be the same for you.