In the reeking Fircone Tavern of fifteenth-century Paris, the poet-thief François Villon boasts what he would do if he were king, and Louis XI, listening in disguise, takes him at his word. Raised to high office for a week, Villon must woo the proud Katherine de Vaucelles and face the Burgundian army besieging the city.
The swashbuckling romance behind a celebrated stage play, for lovers of medieval Paris and rogue heroes. Download the free EPUB.