Lupin at twenty, before he was famous, falls under the spell of Josephine Balsamo, who claims to have been born in 1788 and calls herself Countess of Cagliostro. He saves her from a secret tribunal that wants her drowned and is drawn into her rivalry with a circle of noblemen over the hidden treasures of the old French abbeys.
The origin story of Leblanc’s gentleman burglar, published in English as this book and in French as La Comtesse de Cagliostro. Download the free EPUB.