Quatre-vingt-treize ('ninety-three)

I looked for a copy of this book for a long time, finally finding one for $2 in a library book sale on Shelter Island, NY. Hugo created several very large personalities in this book about the fatal year of 1793, during the Terror of the French Revolution. Each of the characters is admirable in his own way, but I found the conclusion of the book to be somewhat unconvincing. I think that Hugo's romanticism is running out of steam here, or at least out of credibility.