Shadow of guillotine, or kind people

In the novel, the literary father of the famous Captain Alatrist immerses us in the vague pre -revolutionary times of the French history of the late XVIII century. The old world is collapsing, the prison of France is crowded, books are burned, terror intensifies. And against this alarming background, Don Ermochenes Molina, academician, translator of Virgil, and his comrade, retired commander of the marine infantrymen, Don Pedro Sarata, on the instructions of the Spanish Royal Academy, go to Paris in search of the first edition of the disgraced Encyclopedia of Didro and D"Alamber, which, which is, who is The Holy Inquisition included in its index of prohibited books. The expedition of the two Spaniards at any moment can turn into their death, because they are not alone for the book rarity. And yet - a shadow of guillotine invisibly hangs over them