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The Accursed Kings. The Lily and the Lion. When the King Ruins France

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Creating his cycle about the incredible era that shaped the future of beautiful France, Maurice Druon painstakingly worked in the National Archives, researching ancient documents. His grand historical cycle "Cursed Kings" concludes with the novels "The Lily and the Lion" and "When the King ruins France" - a tale of exorbitant ambition and inevitable collapse. On the throne of England rises Edward III, son of Isabella of France, who sends his mother's lover Roger Mortimer to the gallows, and her herself removed from the royal court. But this is only the beginning: at the instigation of Robert Artois, banished from France for forging documents, Edward III claims the French throne - and so begins the Hundred Years' War. And in the final novel of the seven-volume saga wordy Cardinal Elie Perigord tells how the strong have fallen: the war exhausts France, King John II the Good conceived to give the English a decisive battle near Poitiers, and it becomes a disaster for him and for the country. Amid palace intrigues, bloody massacres and coups, the descendants of Philip IV the Beautiful, once cursed by the Grand Master of the Templar Order Jacques de Molay, who had been put to the stake, destroy a formerly powerful and rich country.
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