Arturo Pérez-Reverte. The club Dumas, or Shadow Richelieu (№ 315682)

In Prado there is one picture... I Remember Corso? Men armed with knives, trying to stand against the horsemen, who cut them with swords. I always imagined that fallen angel, when he rebelled, had the same eyes, the same lost look, like those poor knives. The courage of despair.