La Fin de Fausta

Les Pardaillan #10

by Michel Zévaco

Paris, 1614. Louis XIII n'est qu'un jeune garcon de quatorze ans. La reine mere Marie de Medicis est regente et les Concini abusent de sa faiblesse pour usurper le pouvoir et piller le tresor royal. Paris gronde. C'est dans ce contexte que le chevalier de Pardaillan est venu aider son fils pour retrouver sa petite-fille, nee il y a cinq ans et enlevee quelques mois apres a ses parents, Jehan de Pardaillaan et Bertille de Saugis, probablement sur l'ordre de Fausta dont la vengeance s'est ainsi exercee sur son ancien adversaire. Au cours de leurs recherches, les Pardaillan sont aides d'un jeune cousin, Odet de Valvert, que le chevalier aime comme son fils. Lorsque Jehan est rappele aupres de sa femme malade, c'est Odet qui devient le meilleur auxiliaire de Pardaillan. Or, Odet est passionnement epris d'une jeune fille pauvre, Brin de Muguet, en realite fille naturelle de Concini et de Marie de Medicis, reine de France. Et sans le savoir, Brin de Muguet a recueilli une petite fille abandonnee, Loise, l'enfant que les Pardaillan recherchent depuis si longtemps..."

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Novels

446 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1926

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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Reviews

[Caterina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Serinin son kitabıyla Pardayanlar maceramın sonuna geldim. Bazen aynı kurguyu tekrar tekrar okumaktan sıkılsam da keyifliydi.

[Irina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Seria asta e una dintre preferatele, nu a contat ca e foarte lunga, nici nu am simtit cum a trecut timpul citind aceasta serie. Il iubesc pe Pardaillan, cu umorul lui, sangele lui rece si replicile lui de duh! Nu o voi uita prea curand!

[Cristina Pana · Rating 2 out of 5]

Un sfarsit lung, prea lungit, plat si anost.
Cred ca asa se intampla cand te lalai la nesfarsit.

[Tarek HACHEMI · Rating 5 out of 5]

La conclusion de l'épopée épique des Pardaillan

[Const. Crs · Rating 3 out of 5]

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