Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Foreword
The Characters in this Book
Family Tree
The Lily and The Lion
Part I: The New Kings
1. The January Wedding
2. Travail for a Crown
3. A Corpse in Council
4. The Makeshift King
5. The Giant and the Mirrors
6. Homage and Perjury
Part II: The Devil’s Game
1. The Witnesses
2. The Plaintiff Conducts the Inquiry
3. The Forgers
4. The Guests at Reuilly
5. Mahaut and Beatrice
6. Beatrice and Robert
7. Bonnefille House
8. Return to Maubuisson
9. The Wages of Sin
Part III: Decline and Fall
1. The Phantom Bait
2. The Axe in Nottingham
3. To the Common Gallows
4. A Bad Day
5. Conches
6. The Wicked Queen
7. The Tournament at Evreux
8. The Honour of a Peer and the Honour of a King
9. The Tolomei
10. The Seat of Justice
Part IV: The War-Brand
1. The Outlaw
2. Westminster Hall
3. The Defiance at the Tower of Nesle
4. Windsor
5. The Heron and the Oath
6. The Walls of Vannes
Epilogue: 1354–62
1. The Road to Rome
2. The Night at the Capitol
3. ‘We, Cola di Rienzi …’
4. Jean I, The Unknown
Footnotes
Historical Notes
Bibliography
Author’s Acknowledgements
By Maurice Druon
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