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An Enemy to the King From the Recently Discovered Memoirs of the Sieur de la Tournoire
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482 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1897
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November 28, 2017
"Alas, monsieur! easily fooled is he who loves a woman!"
Subtitled 'from the recently discovered memoirs of Sieur de la Toirnoire, a dashing young Huguenot aristocratic goes to Paris to find adventure and romance, joins King Henry III's guard, is duped into killing an ally of the Duke de Guise and flees south to find refuge with Henry of Navarre, the Protestant heir to the throne.
This era of French history is obscenely rich in intrigue, with the three very different son's of Catherine de Medici competing for the throne, alongside the Catholic alternative de Guise and the aforementioned Henry of Navarre. It's little wonder historical romancers have so often deposited their fictional heros and heroines amongst these notorious bunch.
Unfortunately the hidden motives of our heroine on this occasion, Mlle. de Varion, were so painfully obvious that only the dimmest of heroes could have remained blind to them, so the last third of the story became more than a little irritating while our knuckleheaded white knight struggled to see the bleeding obvious.
There's being fooled, then there's being a fool.
Subtitled 'from the recently discovered memoirs of Sieur de la Toirnoire, a dashing young Huguenot aristocratic goes to Paris to find adventure and romance, joins King Henry III's guard, is duped into killing an ally of the Duke de Guise and flees south to find refuge with Henry of Navarre, the Protestant heir to the throne.
This era of French history is obscenely rich in intrigue, with the three very different son's of Catherine de Medici competing for the throne, alongside the Catholic alternative de Guise and the aforementioned Henry of Navarre. It's little wonder historical romancers have so often deposited their fictional heros and heroines amongst these notorious bunch.
Unfortunately the hidden motives of our heroine on this occasion, Mlle. de Varion, were so painfully obvious that only the dimmest of heroes could have remained blind to them, so the last third of the story became more than a little irritating while our knuckleheaded white knight struggled to see the bleeding obvious.
There's being fooled, then there's being a fool.
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