Ernest Defarge is, in Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, the owner of a Parisian wineshop and the husband of Madame Defarge. Charles Dickens was a prolific writer who was almost always working on a new instalment for a story and rarely missed a deadline. ... A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame and patriotism. ... The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city, with the skyscrapers of La Défense business district 5 km/ 3 mi behind. ... Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of grapes and grape juice. ... Madame Defarge is the wife of Ernest Defarge and a tireless worker for the French Revolution in the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. ...

Dickens, in describing him, says he, "was a bull-necked, martial-looking man of thirty...a dark man altogether, with good eyes and a good bold breadth between them. Good humored looking on the whole, but implacable-looking, too; evidently a man of a strong resolution and a set purpose; a man not desirable to be met, rushing down a narrow pass with a gulf on either side, for nothing would turn the man."

He owns the wineshop to which Alexander Manette is taken after his release from the Bastille and maintains a friendly sentiment torwards the doctor which, however, is not shared by his wife. He assists in fermenting feeling against the aristocrats prior to the French Revolution and is closely involved with its inner workings. He and Madame Defarge discover Dr. Manette's letter denouncing the Evermonde family which brings the death verdict against Charles Darnay. Doctor Manette is a character in Charles Dickens novel, A Tale of Two Cities. ... Liberty Leading the People, a painting by Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 but which has come to be generally accepted as symbolic of French popular uprisings against the monarchy in general and the French Revolution in particular. ... Charles Darney is a fictional character in the novel A Tale of Two Cities, written by Charles Dickens. ...