In 1639 a troop of mounted police rides into an Auvergne village with a young nobleman, and so begins Dumas’s retelling of a celebrated French lawsuit. The Count and Countess de Saint-Géran long for an heir, but jealous relatives plot to make sure no child of theirs ever inherits, and the truth takes years and a famous trial to come out.
One of Dumas’s Celebrated Crimes, real history told with a novelist’s appetite for intrigue. Download the free EPUB.