"Le chevalier de Maison-Rouge" by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet is a historical novel published in 1846. Set during the French Revolution in 1793, the story follows revolutionary Maurice Lindey who falls in love with Geneviève, a royalist married to Dixmer. Their home shelters the Chevalier de Maison-Rouge, a fugitive conspiring to free Queen Marie-Antoinette from prison. As political loyalties clash with forbidden love, the characters face impossible choices between passion, duty, and survival in revolutionary France's dangerous world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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