...arles Gayarre had published his , which was widely read and which led the imaginations of many back to the past. A. Lussan based his play, (1839), directly upon the account of the Revolution which Gayarre had so dramatically rendered. The play is conceived somewhat in the spirit of Victor Hugo; it is in verse, in five acts, and is dedicated to the martyrs of 1769. Very little is known of Lussan's ...