In this story, when a position is granted to a member of the household of the King’s beloved, which M. de Perrot had coveted for his own son, a round of intrigue begins. M. de Perrot enlists the narrator, M. de Rosny, to arrange for the king to stop at his house in Poissy for a glass of wine the next day after hunting. This turns out to be a ruse, to engineer an apparently chance encounter between the monarch and de Perrot’s very beautiful and charming niece. But M. de Perrot’s son overhears the plot and has other ideas … A series of events follows that nearly changes the course of history.
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Stanley John Weyman (1855–1928) was an English novelist most famous for his historical romances set in the turmoil of sixteenthth- and seventeenth-century France.
Cathy Dobson is the author of Planet Germany and a narrator of audiobooks.