I’ll begin with a few things that I did like. Really, really dislike it, so Druon fans might wish to stop reading now…. The French originals can be picked up for a euro or less. The four preceding volumes are: Le Roi de fer/The Iron King, La Reine étranglée/The Strangled Queen, Les Poisons de la couronne/The Poisoned Crown and La Loi des mâles/The Royal Succession. The last two novels in the series are Le Lis et le Lion/The Lily and the Lion and Quand un Roi perd la France/When a King Loses France. The English translations are fairly rare these days, and sell for between about 20 and 40 pounds on Amazon UK, and on Amazon US for between about 25 and 50 dollars.
This is the fifth in Maurice Druon’s acclaimed Les Rois Maudits/The Accursed Kings series. ”Published as La Louve de France in 1959, English translation 1960.
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