Read The Three Musketeers

Dumas's grand tale of revenge and escape (1844).

London and Paris during the Terror; "it is a far, far better thing that I do".

Jean Valjean, a loaf of bread and nineteen years; Hugo's Paris from the sewers to the barricades.

Quasimodo, Esmeralda and the cathedral Hugo wrote the book to save.

Revolutionary Paris rendered building by building, once the patches landed.

A murderer with a perfect nose in 18th-century France distils the scent of girls.

Two siblings in plague-era France pursued by the Inquisition and rats; Asobo's stealth.

Two aristocrats play seduction as a game by letter, in the last decade before the guillotine.