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Overview: Originally published in 1845 as a sequel to The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. Two decades have passed since the three musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell threatens to...
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Cornelius von Baerle lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But when his powerful godfather is assassinated, the unwitting Cornelius becomes caught up in a deadly political intrigue. Falsely accused of high treason by a bitter rival, Cornelius is condemned to life in prison. His only comfort is Rosa, the jailer's beautiful daughter, who helps him concoct a plan to grow the black tulip in secret....
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Marie Antoinette series volume 2
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Based on a scandal during the reign of Louis XVI, describes the efforts of Count Cagliostro, Countess Jeanne de la Motte, and Cardinal Rohan to discredit Queen Marie Antoinette. Their plot involves a coveted diamond necklace, and impersonator of the queen, and a web of suspicions of adultery and theft.
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For the first time in English in over a century comes a new translation of the forgotten sequel to Dumas's The Three Musketeers, continuing the dramatic tale of Cardinal Richelieu and his implacable enemies.
In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the
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Extrait : "Un carrefour de Paris. À droite, l'htellerie de La Hurière, avec chambres praticables au rez-de-chaussée et au premier étage. À gauche, l'htel de l'amiral Coligny, avec un balcon praticable. Au fond, la demeure de de Mouy; de chaque cté de cette habitation, une rue faisant face au public et se perdant au lointain."
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