Les quarante-cinq — Tome 1 by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
"Les quarante-cinq — Tome 1" by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet is a historical novel written in 1847–1848. The third and final installment in the Valois trilogy, it follows "La Reine Margot" and "La Dame de Monsoreau." Set during France's Wars of Religion, the story unfolds thirteen years after the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. King Henri III struggles to control a kingdom torn by political and religious factions, while multiple intrigues weave
through Paris, Béarn, and Flanders, connecting his elite guard of forty-five warriors to the broader conflicts threatening France. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 |
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| Author | Maquet, Auguste, 1813-1888 |
| Title | Les quarante-cinq — Tome 1 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forty-Five_Guardsmen 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: 81.2 (6th grade). 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. | 7770 |
| Release Date | Mar 1, 2005 |
| Most Recently Updated | Mar 24, 2015 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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