1590. À Rome, Fausta, après avoir mis au monde le fils de Pardaillan, bénéficie de la grâce du pape Sixte Quint, qui se prépare à intervenir auprès du roi d'Espagne Philippe II dans le conflit qui l'oppose à Henri IV roi de France. Fausta est investie d'une mission auprès de Philippe II : lui faire part d'un document secret par lequel le roi de France Henri III reconnaissait formellement Philippe II comme son successeur légitime sur le trône de France. En France, le chevalier de Pardaillan est investi par Henri IV, absorbé par le siège de Paris, d'une double mission : déjouer les manoeuvres de Fausta et obtenir de Philippe II la reconnaissance de la légitimité d'Henri de Navarre comme roi de France. Pardaillan et Fausta s'affrontent à Séville. Pardaillan est aidé dans sa lutte par Cervantès, qui reconnaît en lui le vrai Don Quichotte. Sortira-il vivant des traquenard tendus par le Grand Inquisiteur Don Espinoza et Fausta?
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
"Ea: bogată, suverană, puternică si adulată, dar invinsă, strivită, zdrobită in toate actiunile ei."
"El: sărac, nobil, fără nici un căpătîi, însă victorios prin forţa geniului său inventiv şi prin inima generoasă. Iar apoi, suprema umilinţă: dragostea ei de fecioară orgolioasă, iubirea ei dispreţuită!"
La bonne recette de Pardaillan fonctionne : des dialogues habiles, de la bonté, de la positivité qui fait toujours gagner. Loin d'être une série pour les garçons et les hommes, Les Pardaillan révèle de bonnes et intuitives situation, derrière des mots et des expressions tout autant sonptueuses. Sans oublier l'amour, toujours part noble à chaque instant.
Fausta este prezentă peste tot, atât în acțiuni cât și în gânduri. Ma cam obosește prezența ei acaparatoare și personalitatea ei dublă. Încep sa îmi pierd interesul.
Honestly I didn't think I read this book and I also like it!Just saw a very rare print of the book and bought on the cheap. But the surprise came when I like it. I think somehow initial prototype version of Hollywood movies and TV series that without any intellectuals tribute i like it!
Kötülükler ve entrika kraliçesi Catherine de Medicis ve Baba Pardayan olmasa da bu cilt de güzeldi. Fausta karakteri yeni bir soluk olmuş adeta. Bakalım Şövalyemiz bu sefer nasıl kurtulacak?