The red cockade

"The Red Cockade" by Stanley J. Weyman is a historical novel published in 1895. Set during the French Revolution, it follows the Vicomte de Saux, a nobleman who sympathizes with peasants' suffering and adopts the revolutionary Red Cockade. Torn between his political convictions and his love for Mademoiselle de St. Alais, a woman from a staunch Royalist family, he must navigate dangerous loyalties while repeatedly saving her from mob violence. Their forbidden romance unfolds against the violent upheaval tearing France apart. (This is an automatically generated summary.)