The Royal Succession. Морис Дрюон

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      ‘History is a novel that has been lived’

      E. & J. DE GONCOURT

      ‘It is terrifying to think how much research is needed to determine the truth of even the most unimportant fact’

      STENDHAL

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Epigraph

Foreword

The Characters in this Book

       Family Tree

The Royal Succession

Prologue

Part One: Philippe and the Closed Gates

1. The White Queen

2. The Cardinal who Did not Believe in Hell

3. The Gates of Lyons

4. Let us Dry our Tears

5. The Gates of the Conclave

6. From Neauphle to Saint-Marcel

       7. The Gates of the Palace

       8. The Count of Poitiers’s Visits

       9. Friday’s Child

       10. The Assembly of the Three Dynasties

       11. The Betrothed Play Tag

       Part Two: Artois and the Conclave

       1. The Arrival of Count Robert

       2. The Pope’s Lombard

       3. The Wages of Sin

       4. We Must Go to War

       5. The Regent’s Army Takes a Prisoner

       Part Three: From Mourning to Coronation

       1. A Wet-nurse for the King

       2. Leave it to God

       3. Bouville’s Trick

       4. My Lords, Look on the King

       5. A Lombard in Saint-Denis

       6. France in Firm Hands

       7. Shattered Dreams

       8. Departures

       9. The Eve of the Coronation

       10. The Bells of Rheims

       Historical Notes

       Footnotes

       Author’s Acknowledgments

       By Maurice Druon

       Copyright

       About the Publisher