One must risk with fear, just as one risks with death. True courage has to do with this very risk. In the early hours of the French Revolution, Blanche de la Force renounces the privileges of high aristocracy in favor of a simple monastic life. In the Carmelite Monastery, the young woman finds the peace she seeks. When the nuns refuse to recognize the revolutionary regime and are arrested, Blanche escapes. But how can she accept to stay alive while her sisters are led to the guillotine? An astonishing text about self-sacrifice, sacrifice, fear, one of Georges Bernanos' most important works, written on the eve of his own death.