Paris, 1578: at the wedding of the king’s favourite St. Luc, the court of Henri III is a nest of rivalries. The dashing Bussy d’Amboise, wounded in an ambush, wakes from a dream of a beautiful woman and sets out to find her, Diane de Méridor, forced into marriage with the sinister Comte de Monsoreau, while the jester Chicot watches over his king.
Dumas’s La Dame de Monsoreau, the middle novel of his Valois romances, and fully enjoyable on its own. Download the free EPUB.