Les quarante-cinq — Tome 2 by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet

"Les quarante-cinq — Tome 2" by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet is a historical novel written in 1847–1848. This second volume concludes the Valois trilogy, following the religious wars tearing France apart under Henri III's troubled reign. Set in 1585–1586, the story weaves together three major threads: intrigue in Paris, Henri de Navarre's rising power in Béarn, and the Duke of Anjou's disastrous Flanders campaign. The novel brings back beloved characters while mixing historical events with romantic invention, including the vengeful Dame de Monsoreau's final confrontation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
Author Maquet, Auguste, 1813-1888
Title Les quarante-cinq — Tome 2
Note Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Quarante-Cinq
Note Written in collaboration with Auguste Maquet. Cf. A. F. Davidson. Alexandre Dumas, 1902, p. 400.
Credits Produced by Anne Soulard, Carlo Traverso and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Reading Level Reading ease score: 79.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject France -- History -- Henry III, 1574-1589 -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 7771
Release Date
Last Update Mar 24, 2015
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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