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Морис Дрюон. The Poisoned Crown
Foreword. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The Characters in this Book
The Poisoned Crown
Prologue
PART ONE. FRANCE AWAITS A QUEEN
1. Farewell to Naples
2. The Storm
3. The Hôtel-Dieu
4. Portents of Disaster
5. The King Receives the Oriflamme
6. The Muddy Army
7. The Philtre
8. A Country Wedding
PART TWO. AFTER FLANDERS, ARTOIS
1. The Insurgents
2. The Countess of Poitiers
3. The Second Couple in the Kingdom
4. A Servant’s Friendship
5. The Fork and the Prie-dieu
6. Arbitration
PART THREE. THE TIME OF THE COMET
1. The New Master of Neauphle
2. Dame Eliabel’s Reception
3. The Midnight Marriage
4. The Comet
5. The Cardinal’s Spell
6 ‘I Assume Control of Artois’
7. In the King’s Absence
8. The Monk is Dead
9. Mourning Comes to Vincennes
10. Tolomei Prays for the King
11. Who is to be Regent?
Footnotes. Prologue
1. Farewell to Naples
4. Portents of Disaster
3. The Midnight Marriage
8. The Monk is Dead
Historical Notes
Author’s Acknowledgements
BY MAURICE DRUON
Copyright
About the Publisher
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E. & J. DE GONCOURT
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As the reading proceeded, he commented calmly, sometimes with irony, on the ferocious attacks the Italian poet, who was already famous in his own country, made upon the French princes. Dante accused Charles of Anjou, the brother of Saint Louis, not only of having assassinated the legitimate heir to the throne of Naples, but also of having poisoned Saint Thomas Aquinas.
‘Our cousins of Anjou are well peppered,’ said the Count of Poitiers in a low voice.
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