Le fils de Pardaillan II

by Michel Zévaco

Nous sommes à Paris en 1609. Henri IV règne, sous la menace permanente des attentats. Le chevalier de Pardaillan, qui n’a pas retrouvé son fils, rencontre un jeune truand, Jehan-le-Brave, en qui il ne tarde pas à reconnaître l’enfant de Fausta. Or, Jehan-le-Brave, qui ignore tout de ses origines, est amoureux de Bertille de Saugis, fille naturelle d’Henri IV. Pour protéger sa bien-aimée et le père de celle-ci, c’est-à-dire le roi, il entre en conflit avec tous ceux qui complotent sa mort : Concini et son épouse, Léonora Galigaï, Aquaviva, le supérieur des jésuites qui a recruté un agent pour ses intentions criminelles, le pauvre Ravaillac. Le chevalier de Pardaillan s’engage dans la lutte aux côtés de son fils, aussi bien pour l’observer que pour protéger le roi. Or, Fausta jadis avait caché à Montmartre un fabuleux trésor que tout le monde convoite, les jésuites, les Concini, et même le ministre du roi Sully. Seule Bertille connaît par hasard le secret de cette cachette, ainsi que le chevalier de Pardaillan...

380 pages, Paperback

First published September 27, 2011

About the author

Michel Zevaco (also written as Zévaco) was a French journalist, novelist, publisher, film director, and anti-clerical as well as anarchist activist.

Michel Zevaco founded the anarchist weekly magazine Gueux (French, Beggars) on March 27, 1892. A month later he was jailed for 6 months and fined for praising Pini and Ravachol. Afterwards he wrote for Sébastien Faure's journal, Libertaire, as well as for the anarchist newspaper La Renaissance. In 1898, he edited l'Anticlérical, for the Anticlerical League of France and was involved in supporting Alfred Dreyfus during the eponymous Dreyfus Affair.

Zevaco's famous cloak and dagger novels Les Pardaillan, began to be serialized in the daily newspapers in 1900 to great popular success. Yet he is today quite unknown, in spite of the new interest aroused by popular literature.

A former school teacher, then an officer, he became a militant journalist, who wrote for various revolutionary newspapers, of anarchist tendency. He became famous mainly for the part he played in the anti-clerical struggles at the end of the 19th century. Then, as a writer of serial novels, he published works which had a great success in Jean Jaurès' daily La Petite République, and he became appointed serial writer for Le Matin from 1906 to his death.

His already well-established popularity was made even greater by his promising beginnings as a film-director in 1917. His novels first published by Fayard and Tallandier were republished several times and adapted for the screen; the latest paperback edition only gives a mutilated version, and is impaired by many cuts.

He is remembered as the author of Les Pardaillan, Le Capitan, Borgia, Buridan, L'Héroïne, l'Hôtel Saint Pol and Nostradamus, his most famous historical novels, but also published novels related to his times. Some of his serials have not yet been published

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