In October 1585 a crowd gathers at the Porte St. Antoine to watch an execution, and among them arrive forty-five penniless Gascon gentlemen summoned to serve as Henri III’s personal guard. The jester Chicot, the scheming Duchesse de Montpensier, the Guises and Henri of Navarre all move in a France torn by religious war.
The final novel of Dumas’s Valois romances, after Marguerite de Valois and Chicot the Jester. Download the free EPUB.