The Casque's Lark

The first four stories of Eugene Sue's series of historic novels The Mysteries of the People; or, History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages are properly introductory to the wondrous drama in which, as indicated in the preface to the first story of the series, "one family, the descendants of a Gallic chief named Joel, typifies the oppressed; one family, the descendants of a Frankish chief named Neroweg, typifies the oppressor; and across and adown the ages, the successive struggles between oppressors and oppressed the history of civilization is thus represented in a majestic allegory". That wondrous drama opens with this, the fifth of the stories The Casque's Lark; or, Victoria, the Mother of the Camps.