Book the Second: CHAPTER XXIII. Fire Rises
Contains spoilers
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Summary
- -An unidentified man sets the chateau of the murdered Marquis on fire.
- -The village soldiers refuse to help put out the fire, and the villagers light candles in their houses.
- -Gabelle, the local tax collector, escapes to the roof of his house to watch the chateau burn.
- -The narrator notes that similar scenes are happening all over France.