Ninety-Three
Victor Hugo
Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt





1793. The new revolutionary government of France is laboring mightily to end injustice and bring in an ideal new age of liberty, equality, and brotherhood, beginning by killing those obnoxious persons who don't appreciate their ideals. In Vendée a force of peasants, strongly supported by imperial England, is laboring mightily to overthrow the revolutionary government and restore Christianity, family, honor and decency, beginning by killing those obnoxious persons who fail to appreciate those noble phenomena. The exiled Marquis de Lantenac returns from England to lead the Vendéan revolt, to institute a take-no-prisoners policy, and to win a series of bloody victories.
Lantenac is opposed with some success by his great-nephew the Revolutionary officer Captain Gauvain. Gauvain's superiors in Paris admire his courage and tactical skill, but they disapprove of his belief that the principle of brotherhood requires him to show mercy to his enemies. They send their man Cimourdain, whose unyielding principles they trust, to make sure that Gauvain's reactionary mercies and his family loyalty are not causing him to betray the Republic--and to have Gauvain killed if that proves to be the case. They don't realize that Cimourdain, who was once a priest and Gauvain's tutor, loves Gauvain like a son--loves him, perhaps, as much as he once loved God and as he now loves the Revolution.
Meanwhile, the Breton peasant Michele Flechard, who has just lost her home and her husband in a war which she experiences an incomprehensible nightmare, is simply trying to keep her young children alive and get them to some place that won't collapse in blood and fire. Under the circumstances, this appears about as difficult as bringing about either version of the Just Kingdom.
Note: A listener interested in the story, and not in a long excursus on the architecture and the notable names of the French Revolution, could skip the very long Section 27, The Convention, without becoming confused or losing any of the plot. (Summary by Joanna Michal Hoyt) (0 hr 39 min)
Kapitel
Part 1: At Sea Book 1, Ch 1: The Forest Of La Saudraie | 23:58 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
Part 1 Book 2: The Corvette Claymore Ch 1: England and France United | 7:10 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
1/2/Ch 2:Night with the Ship and the Passenger | 3:53 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
1/2/3: Patrician and Plebeian United | 12:17 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
1/2/4: Tormentum Belli | 5:43 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
1/2/5: Vis et Vir | 10:41 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
1/2/6: The Two Ends of the Scale | 5:56 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
1/2/7: He Who Sets Sail Invests in a Lottery | 6:42 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
1/2/8: 9:380 | 8:49 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
1/2/9: Someone Escapes | 3:16 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
1/2/10: Does He Escape? | 5:03 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
Pt 1 Book 3: Halmalo Ch 1: Speech Is Word | 10:21 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
1/3/2: A Peasant's Memory Is Worth As Much As The Captain's Science | 18:35 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
Pt 1 Bk 4: Tellmarch Ch 1: On The Top Of The Dune | 5:38 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
1/4/2: Aures Habet Et Non Audiet | 4:15 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
1/4/3: The Usefulness of Big Letters | 4:46 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
1/4/4: The Caimand | 13:03 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
1/4/5: When He Awoke It Was Daylight | 7:04 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
1/4/6: The Vicissitudes of Civil War | 8:58 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
1/4/7: No Mercy, No Quarter | 10:14 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
Part 2: Paris Bk 1: Cimourdain Ch 1: The Streets Of Paris At That Time | 15:30 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
2/1/2: Cimourdain | 15:13 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
2/1/3: A Corner Not Dipped Into The Styx | 5:49 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
Pt 2 Bk 2: The Pot-House On The Rue De Panon Ch 1: Minos, Aeacus, and Rhadamant… | 5:30 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
2/2/2: Magna Testantur Voce Per Umbras | 33:30 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
2/2/3: A Quivering of the Inmost Fibres | 18:59 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
Pt 2 Book 3: The Convention Ch 1: The Convention | 52:33 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
2/3/2 Marat In The Green-Room | 10:29 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
Part 3: In The Vendée Bk 1: The Vendée Ch 1: The Forests | 4:52 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/1/2 Men | 3:49 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/1/3 Connivance of Men and Forests | 5:34 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/1/4 Their Life Underground | 3:06 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/1/5 Their Life In Warfare | 10:39 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/1/6 The Soul of the Earth Passes Into Man | 7:00 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/1/7 The Vendée has Ruined Brittany | 3:40 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
Pt 3 Bk 2: The Three Children Ch 1: Plus Quam Civilia Bella | 12:57 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/2/2 Dol | 13:31 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/2/3 Small Armies and Great Battles | 13:58 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/2/4 A Second Time | 4:41 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/2/5 A Drop of Cold Water | 5:15 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/2/6 A Healed Breast, but a Bleeding Heart | 12:45 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/2/7 The Two Poles of Truth | 13:29 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/2/8 Dolorosa | 4:04 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/2/9 A Provincial Bastille | 17:20 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/2/10 The Hostages | 12:59 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/2/11 Terrible as the Antique | 7:10 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/2/12 The Rescue Planned | 4:10 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/2/13 What The Marquis Is Doing | 4:14 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/2/14 What The Imânus Is Doing | 4:24 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
Pt 3 Bk 3: The Massacre of St. Bartholomew Ch 1: The Massacre of St Bartholemew | 28:33 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
Pt 3 Book 4: The Mother Ch 1: Death Passes | 5:04 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/4/2: Death Speaks | 7:12 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/4/3: Mutterings Among The Peasants | 7:29 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/4/4: A Mistake | 4:41 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/4/5: Vox In Deserto | 4:13 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/4/6: The Situation | 5:55 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/4/7: Preliminaries | 6:29 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/4/8: The Speech and the Roar | 7:44 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/4/9: Titans Against Giants | 7:55 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/4/10: Radoub | 12:55 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/4/11: The Desperate | 5:34 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/4/12: The Deliverer | 5:29 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/4/13: The Executioner | 4:15 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/4/14: The Imânus Also Escapes | 4:41 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/4/15: Never Put A Watch And A Key In The Same Pocket | 6:34 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
Part 3, Book 5: In Daemone Deus. Ch 1: Found, But Lost | 15:15 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/5/2: From The Door Of Stone To That Of Iron | 3:52 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/5/3: Where The Sleeping Children Wake | 9:55 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
Part 3, Book 6: After Victory, Struggle Begins. Ch 1: Lantenac Taken | 4:34 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/6/2 Gauvain Meditating | 24:42 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/6/3 The Commander's Hood | 4:29 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
Part 3, Book 7: Feudality and Revolution. Ch 1: The Ancestor | 16:38 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/7/2: The Court-Martial | 6:07 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/7/3: The Votes | 9:36 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/7/4: After Cimourdain The Judge, Cimourdain The Master | 3:05 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/7/5: The Dungeon | 17:06 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
3/7/6: Still The Sun Rises | 15:32 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |