Title: Le coup de grâce
Description: Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, *Coup de Grâce* tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks; Conrad, his best friend from childhood; and Sophie, whose unrequited love for Erick becomes an unbearable burden.
Subjects: Love, French fiction, Translations into English, Fiction, History, Fiction, general, Gay men in fiction, Gay men, Romance literature, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Russian fiction, LGBTQ fiction before Stonewall
Places: Russia (Federation), Baltic Provinces
Time periods: Russian Revolution (1917-1921)