Rise of the Chouans. One of the strangest, most exciting and tragic pages of the Great French Revolution. The history of the bloody rebellion and guerrilla war of the peasants of northwestern France, who for a long time successfully resisted regular troops, was described differently by the geniuses of world literature Balzac and Hugo, but Raphael Sabatini managed to look at it in a new way. His novel "The Marquis de Carabas", full of exciting adventures, nevertheless deeply and accurately describes the real events of the Chouan uprising; love and romance in it coexist with bright and large-scale historical paintings.