These short stories move through the France of the wars of religion and Henri IV, with Crillon staking his fortune and a king playing a stratagem, to the days of the Terror and the Girondins. A few stray to England, among smugglers and Jacobite plotters, and a statesman’s diary forms a middle section.
Swordplay and narrow escapes from the author of Under the Red Robe and A Gentleman of France. Download the free EPUB.