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A Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX (1829)

by Prosper Mérimée

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À Paris, le protestant Bernard de Mergy retrouve son frère aîné, converti au catholicisme. Décidés à ne pas quereller leurs croyances religieuses, les deux jeunes gens s'accordent de partager les jouissances qu'offre la cour des Médicis, où les intrigues amoureuses se démêlent à force de duels chevaleresques. Mais tandis que le roi Charles IX s'offre le plaisir barbare d'une chasse à cour, gronde le râle sourd et macabre de la Saint-Barthélemy...… (more)
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It must suck to be Prosper Mérimée and write all that and then have all your works evaluated based on whether they were better or worse than Carmen. Anyway, this was worse than Carmen.
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1 vote elucubrare | Apr 26, 2020 |
Somehow I expected this to be a factual historical essay, but it is actually an adventure along the lines of The Three Musketeers or Stanley Weyman's novels set in the same era. Very vivid details. ( )
  antiquary | Oct 19, 2009 |
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À Paris, le protestant Bernard de Mergy retrouve son frère aîné, converti au catholicisme. Décidés à ne pas quereller leurs croyances religieuses, les deux jeunes gens s'accordent de partager les jouissances qu'offre la cour des Médicis, où les intrigues amoureuses se démêlent à force de duels chevaleresques. Mais tandis que le roi Charles IX s'offre le plaisir barbare d'une chasse à cour, gronde le râle sourd et macabre de la Saint-Barthélemy...

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