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Foreword. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The Characters in this Book
The She-Wolf of France
Prologue
1 ‘No One ever Escapes from the Tower of London’
2. The Harassed Queen
3. Messer Tolomei has a New Customer
4. The False Crusade
5. A Time of Waiting
6. The Bombards
1. Dinner with Pope John
2. The Holy Father’s Penance
3. The Road to Paris
4. King Charles
5. The Cross of Blood
6. The Happy Year of 1325
7. Each Prince who Dies …
1. The Hostile Spouses
2. The Return to Neauphle
3. The Queen in the Temple
4. The Council at Chaâlis
1. Harwich
2. The Shining Hour
3. Hereford
4. Vox Populi
5. Kenilworth
6. The Camp-kettle War
7. The Grass Crown
8 ‘Bonum Est’
9. The Red-hot Poker
Historical Notes
Footnotes. 1. ‘No One ever Escapes from the Tower of London’
7. Each Prince who Dies …
A Note for English Readers
Author’s Acknowledgements
BY MAURICE DRUON
About the Publisher
‘History is a novel that has been lived’
E. & J. DE GONCOURT
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Roger Mortimer tucked his shirt into his breeches and buckled his belt about his military tunic. His clothes were worn and ragged, for they had refused his requests for new ones for the past eighteen months. He was still wearing those in which he had fought and they had taken him, removing his dented armour. His lower lip had been wounded by a blow on the chin-piece.
‘If you succeed, I shall be left all alone, and they’ll revenge themselves on me,’ his uncle said.
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