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The winning work of Japan's 68th Mainichi Publication Culture Award Special Prize, with the rigor of a historian and the romance of a novelist, reproduces the turmoil of France in the 18th century. From conception to completion, it took 20 years for a full-length historical novel to read. There may be no more readable French Revolution than this! Mirabeau, Robespierre, Desmoulins, Marat, Danton... Risked their lives, reputations and lives to pursue the ideal France in the name of freedom, equality and friendship! The king's flight ended at Varennes. On June 25, 1791, Louis XVI and his family were "invited" back to Paris. From then on, the royal family lost the support of the people and lost its majesty. Disputes arose among the Jacobins over the handling of the escape. On July 16, the Constitutional Monarchists broke away from the Jacobin Club and established the Feillant Club. On July 17, thousands of citizens gathered in the Champ de Mars to petition for the deposed Louis XVI. The National Constituent Assembly, which was supposed to represent the French people, used force to disperse the gathering, leading to the tragedy of the massacre at the Champ de Mars. At the same time, the exiled nobles are taking action, European countries intend to interfere in the French Revolution, and war is about to break out. With internal differences over the direction of reform and constant external pressure on the French revolution, where will France go?

In order to solve France's financial crisis, Bishop Talleyrand of Autun proposed a bill to nationalize clergy assets. Representatives of the first estate clergy were strongly dissatisfied and tried to use the Roman Church to prevent the issue from passing. On the other side, Lafayette, the "Hero of Two Worlds" who participated in the American Revolutionary War, firmly held military power in his hands and controlled parliamentary decisions through his own influence. At the same time, Mirabeau and Robespierre, who were like-minded on the road to revolution, gradually parted ways. Desmoulins, who led the people to storm the Bastille, had doubts about his mission in the French Revolution. With the clergy class in front of them resisting to the end, and General Lafayette with his hands covering the sky behind him, the revolution is struggling to make progress, and where will the fate of France go...