Bug-Jargal by Victor Hugo

In this book Hugo has fictionalized the Haitian Revolution. He uses a frame story set during the Reign of Terror to tell a story about a young French officer, his fiancée, his loyal friend and subordinate, and Pierrot, a revolutionary who is also in love with the officer's fiancée. I was particularly interested in this story for all the masking that went on (Pierrot/Bug-Jargal, Habibrah, the dwarf's divided loyalties, the doubling of Bug-Jargal and D'Auverney). The story ends up being strongly anti-revolutionary and also strongly opposed to cultural mixing (in fact, D'Auverney's fiancée, Marie, is also his first cousin). The story is at times quite sentimental. I enjoyed this story quite a bit.