A man in a handsome grey cloak slips through the dark alleys of seventeenth-century Paris. He calls himself the Chevalier du Cévennes, and his rivalry with the scheming d’Hérouville, his tangle with a mysterious mutilated hand and his love for a young lady of the court eventually carry the story across the Atlantic to the forests and missions of New France.
Swashbuckling romance from 1903, with duels, disguises and a debt to the Jesuit Relations. Download the free EPUB.