Provenance:
From the personal collection of Don Pedro Paterno

ABOUT THE WORK

The book, a historical and adventure novel, is a standard in an ilustrado library like Paterno’s. When the book was originally published in 1844, both schoolboys and intellectuals appreciated it for the author, Alexander Dumas, masterfully portrays the injustices, abuses and inconsistencies of France’s Ancien Régime. (Lars Raymund Ubaldo, Ph. D.)