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In his historical novels between the two wars, Lion Feuchtwanger seeks to portray “the conflict between the individual and society, the rebellion of the evolved individual against the increasingly absurd social order.” Its central characters are “heroes”, exceptional personalities, people who have overcome by understanding the society and the class to which they belong. They fight, in the name of reason and humanity, against the forces of darkness and reaction, a struggle most often doomed, in the historical circumstances in which they live, to defeat. “I have been preoccupied with the strange phenomenon for decades that such diverse people as Beaumarchais, Benjamin Franklin, La Fayette, Voltaire, Louis VI and Marie-Antoinette all had to contribute, each for completely different reasons, for the American revolution to win. , and with her and the French… We hope to be able to show what prompted so many different people and groups to work, willingly or unwillingly, even against their will, in the direction of progress. “