Title : The Accursed Kings, Volume 2 - The Strangled Queen - Maurice Druon - Book
Summary :
The Accursed Kings, a famous historical epic in seven volumes :
1. The Iron King. 2. The Strangled Queen. 3. The Poisons of the Crown.
4. The Law of Males. 5. The She-Wolf of France. 6. The Lily and the Lion.
7. When a king loses France, bring back to life the 14th century, between
the trial of the Templars and the beginnings of the Hundred Years' War. Translated worldwide, The Accursed Kings has achieved exceptional success and is considered one of the contemporary models of the historical novel.
Following The Iron King , The Strangled Queen begins the day after the death of Philip the Fair. A weak-willed prince, Louis X the Quarrelsome, whose wife, Margaret of Burgundy, is imprisoned for adultery, succeeds an exceptional monarch.
While Christianity awaits a pope and the people are dying of hunger, rivalries, intrigues, and plots will tear the French court apart and lead barons, prelates, bankers, and the king himself, to the bottom of an impasse from which they can only escape through crime.
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