Apr s dix-huit ans comme prisonnier politique la Bastille, le docteur Manette vieillissant est enfin lib r et retrouve sa fille en Angleterre. L , la vie de deux hommes tr s diff rents, Charles Darnay, un aristocrate fran ais exil , et Sydney Carton, une avocate anglaise de mauvaise r putation mais brillante, se retrouvent m l es par leur amour pour Lucie Manette. Des routes tranquilles de Londres, ils sont attir s contre leur gr dans les rues vengeresses et ensanglant es de Paris au plus fort du r gne de la terreur, et ils tombent bient t sous l'ombre meurtri re de La Guillotine.A Tale of Two Cities french editionAfter eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.