Jacquou is a great story commandingly told

Book review: Jacquou, by Eugene Le Roy

More engagingly than the 'great' French novelists, Eugene Le Roy draws his reader into the world of post-revolutionary France where injustive and hardship meet their match in the indomitable spirit of Jacquou, a poor country boy who vows to avenge his father's death at the hands of a heartless 'nobleman'.

The details of the Perigordin countryside and the lives, the preoccupations and the passions of its inhabitants are vividly conveyed, while the story of Jacquou's noble persistence grips the reader's sympathy from the start when he is but a boy till the end in his dying days: a great story commandingly told.