About the book: 1967 / Tetralogy (1868–70) by Erkman-Chatrian, consisting of the novels “States General”, “The Fatherland in Danger”, “The First Year” Republic" and "Citizen Bonaparte". Written in the form of memoirs of a 100-year-old Lorraine peasant Michel Bastien, who volunteered for the French Republican Army and took part in the suppression of the Vendée uprising and the lawlessness committed by the Jacobins.