The Accursed Kings series by Maurice Druon (#1-6)
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Overview: Born in Paris, France, Druon was the son of Russian-jewish immigrant Lazare Kessel (1899-1920) and was brought up at La Croix-Saint-Leufroy in Normandy and educated at the lycée Michelet de Vanves. His father committed suicide in 1920 and his mother remarried in 1926; Maurice subsequently took the name of his adoptive father, the lawyer René Druon (1874-1961). While his scholarly writing earned him a seat at the Académie, he is best known for a series of seven historical novels published in the 1950s under the title Les Rois maudits (The Accursed Kings). The novels were adapted for French television in 1972, gaining a wider audience through overseas sales, and again in 2005, starring Jeanne Moreau.
Genre: Historical Fiction
Book 2: The Strangled Queen
The King is dead. Long live the King.With King Philip IV dead, and the Kingdom left in disarray, as the fatal curse of the Templars plagues the royal house of France.Imprisoned in Chateau Gaillard, Marguerite of Burgundy has fallen into disgrace. Her infidelity has left her estranged husband, Louis X King of France, with neither heir nor wife.The web of scandal, murder and intrigue that once wove itself around the Iron King continues to afflict his descendants, as the destruction of his dynasty continues at the hands of fate.
Book 3: The Poisoned Crown
After causing his first wife to be murdered and his mistress exiled, the puny, semi-impotent Louis X becomes besotted with the lovely Clemence, his new Queen. Vacillating between self-pity and vainglory he is caught between the vaulting ambitions of proud, profligate barons…This is the third book of “The Accursed Kings” series of historical novels by Maurice Druon about the decadent, criminal and incompetent monarchs who ruled over early fourteenth century France and brought the country to the utter prostration and weakness which the English invaders exploited in the Hundred Years War.
Book 4: The Royal Succession
An absorbing novel of fourteenth century France – its magnificence, its dissipation. Louis X dies of poison leaving his lovely wife pregnant, his country in turmoil. Philippe of Poitiers, his brother, surrounded by dangers, must use any means to save his country from anarchy. Civil war, witchcraft, trickery, force of arms, the lechery of Queen Clemence, the murder of a royal child – all these marked his rapid ascent to the throne. This is the fourth novel in Maurice Druon’s series The Accursed Kings.
Book 5: The She-Wolf of France
This novel follows the fortunes of Isabella the sister of the French king Charles IV. Married to the weak Edward II of England, Queen Isabella, dubbed “The She-Wolf of France”, deserts her husband and elopes with the charismatic Roger Mortimer. Together they lead an invasion of England, depose the king and incarcerate him Berkeley Castle where he is later murdered in circumstances of peculiar horror. This is the fifth book of “The Accursed Kings” series of historical novels by Maurice Druon about the decadent, criminal and incompetent monarchs who ruled over early fourteenth century France and brought the country to the utter prostration and weakness which the English invaders exploited in the Hundred Years War.
Book 6: The Lily and the Lion
With the death of Charles IV dies Capetian dynasty. The rise of the Valois to the French throne unleash the Hundred Years War … The seed of the huge showdown has fallen in the fertile soil of economic rivalries, personal ambitions, legal entanglements and historical resentments. Fatalities tragic collective and individual acts happen in this sixth volume of the saga of The Accursed Kings.
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