The third volume of selected works by the famous contemporary French writer Georges Bordonov includes historical novels set in the 19th century. The novel “The Fire Dog” is like the second part of a dilogy about the fate of the Vendee nobility, although the characters are not even distantly related. The historical background of the novel is France in 1880, recovering from the defeat inflicted on it by Prussia, when the entire French army and the last monarch, Napoleon III, were captured at Sedan. The hero of the novel is the Marquis Esprit de Catrelis. The hot blood of an ancient, warlike family flows in his veins, but now he is just a landowner burdened with fate. “Who would call himself unhappy because he is not a king? - Marquis Blaise Pascal quotes. “Only a king who has lost his throne.” The calmed, well-fed Vendée no longer needs heroes. And Katrelis, to whom only the coat of arms reminds him of the glorious past of the family, becomes one of the last Don Quixotes of the Vendee aristocracy. Only he waged war not with windmills, but with enemies equal to him in strength, courage and cunning - with wolves...