Paris, during the bloodiest days of the Revolution: a book entitled An Atheists' Bible is discovered by the authorities.
But what is An Atheists' Bible and who wrote this 'profoundly reactionary and perversely pornographic' book? It is set in 1759, when the government of Louis XV was in the process of banning Diderot's great Encyclop die and the Seven Years War was raging, and purports to be a true account of how the printer Bageuret discovers...