Ninety-Three Chapter 72 - Feudality and Revolution. Ch 1

In which a noble prisoner confined in a dungeon engages in a profound and sardonic discourse upon legacy, honour, and the tumultuous upheaval of revolution with his unexpected visitor, the Viscount Gauvain, whose presence evokes memories and bitter reflections on ancestral ties and the cost of progress. Through this tense encounter, the venerable Marquis articulates a mournful homage to the grandeur of old France and the irrevocable change befalling its ancient order, all beneath the shadowed lamp in his sombre prison.