Cinq-Mars (Vol. II)
NY: Current Literature Publishing Company, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 5.5"x8" 291 numb. pgs. Tan cloth boards w/red embossed frames & designs on front w/black embossed letters and ink designs. On spine as well. Beautiful frontispiece covered w/vellum. Date on title page. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/toning. Not x-library, unmarked, no DJ. Secure ship w/track #. Very Good. Item #16689
A conspiracy under Louis XIII. 1640: A witchcraft trial. A pyre. A conspiracy. Louis XIII fainting with love, guilt and hatred before his young and graceful favourite. Richelieu sailing up the Rhone in a boat lined with crimson velvet which dragged behind him the boat in which Cinq-Mars and de Thou, in chains, were led to the execution: their death would mean the end of the old nobility, crushed by power and reason of state. Following in the footsteps of Walter Scott and waiting for Dumas, Cinq-Mars is the first, the most dramatic and undoubtedly the most successful of French historical novels.
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