Used book – The Scholars of the Revolution, Frédéric Lenormand

January 1790. Aimé de Frénolec is entrusted to a distant cousin, M. de Faramond, an eccentric and slightly mad scholar. This ingenious inventor has a knack for making enemies, among fanatics of all stripes. He soon has to flee France, with Aimé in tow. Destination: England, that den of émigrés and spies!