1815 After the fall of Napoleon and the return of the throne to the Bourbons, a wave of pogroms and outrages rolled across the French provinces. The atrocities committed by the royalists were a response to the country's revolutionary and imperial past. The police of Louis XVIII turned a blind eye to any outbreaks of the White Terror, helpfully turning their noses to the side. The golden youth of Bordeaux also took advantage of the criminal connivance on the part of the government. Local playmakers, who were good with a sword, organized the Breter Society and amused themselves by starting quarrels everywhere with or without reason. But where there is poison, you need to look for an antidote. Outraged residents of Bordeaux decide to take retaliatory measures. The novel “The Duelists” is published in Russian for the first time.